ENRICH have been working alongside NHS Grampian and Aberdeen and Edinburgh Universities on a research study exploring the inclusion of care home residents in vaccine trials. We have been lucky enough to have had input from care home managers, and are now looking to speak with care home residents and staff about their views and experiences on recruiting care home residents for vaccine trials. The aim of gaining a better understanding of this, is to ensure that the care home population become better represented in care home trials.
 
Staff and family members from across Scotland can participate, as well as residents in homes in the Grampian area. Discussions can take place via teams/phonecall or for Aberdeen participants, a face to face conversation. Please contact selvarani.subbarayan2@nhs.scot for any further information. She is very happy to answer any questions. 

Are you a UK based health or social care professional?

Do you work with housebound or people living in care homes, some of whom may be living with obesity? If so, we would love to hear your views on weight management services for this under-served group for our HOPE (Housebound Obesity Pathways & Engagement) study.

The survey is anonymous, open to all health and social care staff & takes about 15-20 mins to do via this link HOPE survey for wider health and care professionals. It will be open until the end of October at least.

Please follow the link above for our short survey (15-20 mins).

Alternatively please contact hope-study@glasgow.ac.uk

This is an opportunity to take part in a UK wide study exploring whether including personalised music within individual care plans can improve wellbeing, support quality care, and reduce changed behaviours, such as distress, for people living with dementia.

Half of the care homes taking part will receive training to support the of use personalised music within care planning, and the other half will continue with usual care — both groups are vital for comparing outcomes and will be randomly allocated. If you are interested in participating or would like more information, please contact puma@sheffield.ac.uko or get in touch with the ENRICH team on tay.enrichscotland@nhs.scot. 

This study invites people with Alzheimer’s disease and their carers or family members to take part in a 12-week trial of “AMPER,” a digital tool designed to support reminiscing through prompts and memorabilia like photos and audio recordings. The aim is to explore whether AMPER can improve well-being, identity, and self-worth by encouraging meaningful conversations. Participation is voluntary, and both patients and carers can withdraw at any time without affecting care. Sessions will take place either at the University of Strathclyde or in the participant’s home, depending on space.

Those interested please contact

Prof. Mario Parra mario.parra-rodriguez@strath.ac.uk or call 07 872417411

Researchers from the University of Liverpool have created a game to help improve knowledge about dementia. They are looking for care home staff to play the game and answer some questions before and after. This is in order to assess how useful care home staff find the game

 A member of the ENRICH team would attend the home to facilitate the game which would take around one hour (including time for the pre-and-post game questionnaire) Ideally, we would like several members of staff to play at the same time but we understand this may be challenging with availability.

Please get in touch with your local Clinical Studies Officer if you are interested in this. Alternatively, ENRICH can also be contacted on Tay.enrichscotland@nhs.scot.