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Elaine Argyle is a Senior Research Fellow at The University of Nottingham where she has worked since 2012. Prior to this, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Bradford Dementia Group after obtaining a PhD and an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Social Gerontology at the University of Sheffield. She is also a dually registered mental health professional (RMN, Dip SW) and has many years experience of working with people with dementia in these capacities.
February 28, 2022
The incidence of unpaid caring is predicted to progressively increase as a result of worldwide demographic trends. Thus according to the Global Coalition on Aging, by 2050, those aged sixty-five and over are expected to double to 1.5 billion while...
November 10, 2020
Rates of loneliness and isolation have dramatically risen during the lockdown but what are the implications of this for people with dementia and for those who work with them? The coronavirus has had a huge impact on the lives of...
April 22, 2020
In an unfortunate turn of events, my 85 year old mother’s first hospital admission in decades took place several weeks ago on the cusp of the coronavirus crisis. She fell over at home and broke her hip and as I...
June 6, 2017
Social support at home is key to enabling people with dementia to continue to live independently and in deferring or avoiding their transition to long term care. Since the launch of the NHS and Community Care Act in 1990, and...
February 16, 2017
Health care assistants and social care support workers play a central role in front line care provision. For not only are they are usually the first point of contact for those in receipt of care, they also deliver around twice...
November 7, 2016
Access to the outdoors is known to have a positive impact on wellbeing, due to such benefits as exercise and activity as well as the promotion of social inclusion and interaction, however, for people with dementia, this access is often...
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