Dementia

Questions on Dementia were asked in the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey in 2010 and 2014.
Questions on Informal Care were asked in the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey in 2004, 2006, and 2010.
Questions on Informal Care were also included in the Grandparenting and Family module of the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey in 2004.
Questions on Social Care for Older People were asked in the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey in 2010.

ARK Resources

• Evaluating arts-based programmes for people with dementia, and their impact on wellbeing is a discussion paper by Paula Devine and Katrina Lloyd.
• A teaching dataset has been created based on the 2014 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey module on dementia. This is designed to be used on undergraduate and postgraduate courses teaching quantitative statistical analysis in the social sciences.
• Public attitudes and knowledge of dementia: Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland and Scotland (Discussion paper) by Paula Devine is based on 2014 survey data.
• Dementia: look closer (Research Update 104) by Elizabeth Byrne McCullough and Paula Devine is based on data from the Dementia module within the 2014 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey.
• Dementia: public knowledge and attitudes (Research Update 77) by Maria McManus and Paula Devine is based on data from the Dementia module within the 2010 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey. This was accompanied by a seminar - see the video recording here.
• Attitudes to, and knowledge of, dementia in Northern Ireland (ARK Occasional Paper) by Lizanne Dowds, Patricia McParland, Paula Devine and Ann Marie Gray, is based on data from the Dementia modules within the 2010 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey.
• An Ordinary Life? Caring in Northern Ireland Today (Research Update 75) by Helen Ferguson and Paula Devine uses data from the 2010 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey.
• Young Carers Too by Paula Devine and Katrina Lloyd (Research Update 76) focuses on young carers, based on data from the 2010 Young Life and Times Survey.
• Men as Carers (Men in Northern Ireland Report 7) by Paula Devine uses data from a range of surveys and official statistics
• Young Carers (Research Update 56) by Paula Devine and Katrina Lloyd, uses data from the 2007 Young Life and Times Survey.
• Who cares now? Changes in informal caring 1994 and 2006 (Research Update 51) by Eileen Evason, explores changes in informal care between 1994 and 2006, using data from the 2006 Life and Times Survey and the 1994 Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey.
• Who cares? (Research Update 27) by Eileen Evason is based on data from the Northern Ireland Household Panel Survey

Links

• The Northern Ireland office of the Dementia Services Development Centre provides education andtraining, consultancy, library/information services and research that aim to improve the lives of people with dementia, their carers and families, with particular emphasis on provision within Northern Ireland.

• Improving Dementia Services in Northern Ireland - a regional strategy was published by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety in November 2011.
• The Alzheimer's Society is a membership organisation, which works to improve the quality of life of people affected by dementia in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The site also provides information on different types of dementia.
• Carers Northern Ireland is a membership organisation run by carers, for carers across the whole of Northern Ireland. The website includes reports on research, policy and practice.
• Crossroads Caring for Carers provides respite care for carers, carers provide care for an elderly, frail, ill or disabled friend or relative.
• The Belfast Carers' Centre provides support and information for carers across Greater Belfast.

Maintained by Paula Devine