Brain Health & Dementia

This work is led by Dr Josie Reynolds.

Our work in this areas focuses on:

• co-producing inclusive research into brain health and dementia

• designing more culturally relevant and competent services to address the brain health and dementia needs of culturally diverse communities 

• tackling structural racism which is currently built into health services. 

Work to date includes the PMIMS Study and brain health priority setting with the Chinese community. We are also partnering with Cultural Appropriate Resources to refine and pilot reminiscent therapy interventions tailored to people with dementia from Caribbean communities. Future work includes brain health priority setting with Israac Somali Community Association in collaboration with Dr Becky Field. 

Future work is looking to develop a new intervention to support people living with cognitive symptoms from racially minoritised communities who have not yet received a dementia diagnosis. These ideas have been co-produced through the findings of the PMIMS Study. During the DERA conference, we asked attendees to consider what this intervention might look like - see here for a visual summary of the discussion.