All Outputs (4)

The development and evaluation of an educational intervention for primary care promoting person-centred responses to dementia (2015)
Journal Article
Iliffe, S., Voss, S. E., Edwards, R., Voss, S., & lliffe, S. (2015). The development and evaluation of an educational intervention for primary care promoting person-centred responses to dementia. Dementia, 14(4), 468-482. https://doi.org/10.1177/1471301213499768

© 2013, © The Author(s) 2013. Background Early diagnosis of dementia within primary care is important to allow access to support. However, dementia remains under-detected in general practice. Aim This work aimed to develop and evaluate an educational... Read More about The development and evaluation of an educational intervention for primary care promoting person-centred responses to dementia.

Education about dementia in primary care: Is person-centredness the key? (2014)
Journal Article
Edwards, R., Voss, S., & Iliffe, S. (2014). Education about dementia in primary care: Is person-centredness the key?. Dementia, 13(1), 111-119. https://doi.org/10.1177/1471301212451381

Primary care is ideally placed to recognise and manage dementia and yet dementia can be overlooked or misattributed by primary care practitioners and is underdiagnosed. This might be explained by a lack of formal training in the diagnosis of dementia... Read More about Education about dementia in primary care: Is person-centredness the key?.

The measurement of tissue interface pressures and changes in jugular venous parameters associated with cervical immobilisation devices: A systematic review (2013)
Journal Article
Sparke, A., Voss, S., & Benger, J. (2013). The measurement of tissue interface pressures and changes in jugular venous parameters associated with cervical immobilisation devices: A systematic review. Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 21(1), 81. https://doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-21-81

Cervical immobilisation is commonly applied following trauma, particularly blunt head injury, but current methods of immobilisation are associated with significant complications. Semi-rigid disposable cervical collars are known to cause pressure ulce... Read More about The measurement of tissue interface pressures and changes in jugular venous parameters associated with cervical immobilisation devices: A systematic review.

Executive function: The core feature of dementia? (2004)
Journal Article
Bullock, R. A., & Voss, S. (2004). Executive function: The core feature of dementia?. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 18(2), 207-216. https://doi.org/10.1159/000079202

Links between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and vascular dementia (VaD) have been examined, and this paper investigates the role of executive control function (ECF) within the dementia syndrome. 307 AD patients, 168 VaD patients and 208 controls were comp... Read More about Executive function: The core feature of dementia?.