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Karen has over 40 years’ experience in dementia care in a variety of settings and contexts. For the past twelve years she has worked with Dementia UK and Admiral Nursing, and is now the Head of Research and Publications. She gained a PhD at University College London focusing on advance care planning and end-of-life care in dementia. She holds honorary academic positions at the Universities of Nottingham, Liverpool and De Montfort, Leicester.
March 11, 2024
I feel very lucky in my work at times as I get to do things that I never expected to come my way. As a charity Dementia UK are often asked to review films, novels, TV scripts, etc., where there...
September 2, 2022
One in three of us will develop dementia, but if we are not one of these, most of us will be aware of or know someone with dementia, whether that is a family member, a neighbour or a friend. Despite...
June 15, 2021
We should not be surprised that the experience of dementia is starting to be portrayed in many of the visual arts; film, TV, novels and theatre. This is perhaps inevitable given that statistically dementia has a high prevalence and incidence...
October 26, 2020
I first became conscious of the concept of planning ahead for the end-of-life in the early 1990’s when I became a community psychiatric nurse (CPN) supporting families affected by dementia. Over my 6 years as a CPN I was involved...
September 7, 2020
A significant aspect of the work of the charity is in Increasing the general public’s understanding of the experience of what it is like to live with dementia; whether this is from the perspective of the person with the diagnosis,...
September 1, 2020
Dementia is now the commonest cause of death in the UK, with an expected 220,000 annual deaths expected by 2040 either with or from dementia. There is no effective treatment or cure for dementia but, despite this, many clinicians involved...
April 23, 2020
The term ‘underserved populations’ is used frequently at the moment in relation to certain groups of people affected by dementia. But what do we actually mean when we talk of an underserved population? The main issue is about the challenge of...
March 19, 2020
Care pathways have become a ubiquitous term in health and social care. A care pathway is defined as a complex intervention for the mutual decision-making and organisation of care processes for a well-defined group of patients during a well-defined period....
March 17, 2020
I have worked in the field of dementia care for some forty years and consider myself to have a passion for improving the quality of care families affected by dementia receive. In more recent years my career took a slightly...
January 13, 2020
There will be large numbers of people with dementia as the population continues to age. Dementia is a progressive, irreversible neurodegenerative condition that greatly reduces life with one in three of the population expected to die with or from dementia....
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