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Justine Schneider
Professor of Mental Health & Social Care
Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Nottingham
Justine has extensive experience in many aspects of applied health research using a wide range of methodologies and approaches. She has particular expertise in mental health service evaluation, carers, care homes, costs and supported employment. Her current work focuses primarily on dementia and staff development, and she is exploring innovative approaches to knowledge exchange in dementia care.
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June 30, 2025
Picture ten men surrounding a giant Jenga, encouraging one to attempt the impossible; remove a block from a teetering tower and replace it on the top without collapsing the whole. See them seated in a circle, kicking a football to...
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May 12, 2020
Yesterday I was gardening in front of my house. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed an older man walking on the pavement opposite. Not a neighbour, I thought, it must be someone out for their daily exercise....
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June 20, 2019
(C4, Wednesday 12 and 19th June, 2019, 9pm, 60 mins) There are fundamental errors that make this programme bad for people with dementia and those who care about them. The idea is that people of working age who have dementia...
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June 22, 2018
Marc Block and James bring music to hospital care settings as the duo Wellspring. Their training for this work includes an apprenticeship in Music in Health practice with Opus Music. They occasionally write up their experiences and this blog is...
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January 4, 2018
Artists who work with people with dementia are an extraordinary group of people. I’ve been privileged to observe a number of artists at work with people with dementia. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, we recently ran four...
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April 5, 2017
“How can we take the pressure off health and social care?” This was the question posed to a panel of professionals by the Lunar 21 discussion group on April 3rd, 2017. The original Lunar Society was a group of 18th...
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January 16, 2017
I met Chris and Jayne at a meeting of researchers in Maastricht recently. They were representing the European Association of People with Dementia, of which Chris is vice-chair. Along with a Norwegian couple, they were advising the network on involving people with...
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October 12, 2016
Our expectations of old age are increasingly overshadowed by the probability of progressive memory loss. The issues thrown up by this phenomenon have implications for scholars in the Arts and Humanities, as well as in the Social Sciences and Medicine....
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May 16, 2016
There is something apposite about a university – which runs on brain power – becoming dementia-friendly. It recognises that human beings have value beyond their intellectual capacity. How can an institution whose purpose lies in developing intellectual potential also be...
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March 30, 2016
In generating public understanding about dementia, the arts and social sciences have as much to offer as neuroscience. This is the starting-point of a group which has been invited to take up the 2016-2018 residency in The Hub at Wellcome...
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