Journal articles

‘Learning through Practice: How Can We Address Loneliness among Older People?’ by Paula Devine, Lorna Montgomery, Mandy Cowde and Fiona Murphy, Fiona, February 2020, Practice: Social Work in Action

‘Factors associated with public knowledge of and attitudes to dementia: A cross-sectional study’, by Michael Rosato, Gerard Leavey, Janine Cooper, Paul De Cock and Paula Devine, PlosOne, February 2019 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0210543

Thinking ahead? Exploring adult social care provision with older people in Northern Ireland‘, by Alexandra Chapman, Health and Social Care in the Community, July 2018 https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12635

Social isolation and older men – learning from research‘, by Paula Devine, Lorna Montgomery, Janet Carter Anand, and Caoimhe Ní Dhónaill, Community Development Journal, 2019, Volume 54, Issue 2, pages 273-289

‘Unmasking the ‘elderly mystique’: Why it is time to make the personal political in ageing research’, by Gemma M Carney and Mia Gray, Journal of Aging Studies, December 2015, Volume 35, pages 123–134

‘Women re-negotiating care across family generations’, by C. Conlon, V. Timonen, G. Carney and T. Scharf , Gender & Society, October 2014, Volume 28, Number 5, pages 729-751

‘Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt: Solidarity between generations in the Irish crisis’, by Gemma Carney, Thomas Scharf, Virpi Timonen and Catherine Conlon, Critical Social Policy, August 2014, Volume 34, Number 3, pages 312-332

Paula McClean has published 3 papers looking at diabetes drugs as potential Alzheimer’s Disease therapeutics:

  • Restoration of cerebral and systemic microvascular architecture in APP/PS1 transgenic mice following treatment with Liraglutide, by Kelly P, McClean PL, Ackermann M, Konerding MA, Hölscher C and Mitchell CA (2015), Microcirculation, Volume 22, pages 133–145
  • Lixisenatide, a drug developed to treat type 2 diabetes shows neuroprotective effects in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s Disease, by McClean PL and Hölscher C (2014),  Neuropharmacology, Volume  86, pages 241-258
  • Liraglutide can reverse memory impairment, synaptic loss and reduce plaque load in ages APP/PS1 mice, a model of Alzheimer’s disease, by McClean PL and Hölscher C (2014), Neuropharmacology, Volume  76, pages  57-67