Amy Innes
Biographic Data
| ID | 224716 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Innes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy |
| FAMILY NAME | Innes |
| SIGNATURE | INNES A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Salford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5591-4083 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 113 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Tensions in the provision of residential care facility housing with support model
Residential Care Facilities (RCFs) refer to housing arrangements in the city where our research is based. As residents face more complex health and social challenges, RCFs, traditionally operating under a landlord-tenant model rather than a healthcare framework, are under increasing strain. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with two groups: RCF operators (n = 23) and supporting stakeholder services (n = 20). This paper reports on two key …
Green Care Farms as an Approach to Support People Living with Dementia
How to best support people living with dementia and their care partners living in the community to maximize their quality of life and quality of living through appropriate and effective non-pharmaceutical approaches remains a focus of dementia societies and organizations worldwide. This paper examines the views of a range of stakeholders about the potential of green care farms in Canada, a country new to the concept of the green care farm approac…
Perceptions of a UK Bangladeshi community on accessing dementia health and care services within the context of the English National Dementia Strategy
Bangladeshi communities experience poor health outcomes and have higher risk factors for vascular dementia. This article explores the perceptions of people living with dementia, as well as the perceptions of their family members and caregivers, and gathers their views on current dementia support services in order to make recommendations to improve the provision of dementia support services in a UK Bangladeshi community. A total of 25 semi-structu…
Addressing stigma, mistrust, and power within integrated care work
Background: Integrated care is about removing barriers to effective, coordinated, and person-centred care. Often, the language used to describe barriers revolves around fragmentation, for example, siloed care delivery or communication gaps. However, even the joining-up of services will not achieve the ideal of “the right care at the right time in the right place” without addressing other barriers to accessing care. These barriers include stigma, …
Exploring the Impact of Embedding Community Resources in the Emergency Department
Alternate level of Care (ALC) is a pressing issue in the Canadian Healthcare landscape. ALC can be defined as a patient occupying a bed in an acute care facility who no longer requires acute level care. The impacts of ALC are felt throughout the healthcare system. ALC decreases access to acute care beds, adds higher health care costs and can lead to adverse health outcomes for the patient such as nosocomial infections. Persons living with dementi…
Connecting Across Generations
Controlling Levallois
Discussions of the Levallois method typically focus on the preparation of the core surface geometry as the primary factor in determining the characteristics of Levallois products. While some studies have acknowledged the role of knapping gestures, there is still limited empirical investigation into how different force application parameters influence the formation of these flakes. This study presents the results from a set of controlled experimen…
Understandings and Perceived Benefits of Outdoor-Based Support for People Living with Dementia
The importance of the outdoors for supporting well-being is recognized, but less is known about the role of the outdoors in supporting people living with dementia. The aim of this study was to examine three stakeholder groups' understandings about outdoor-based support and care for people living with dementia to help understand what might be done to maximize the outdoors as a source of support for people living with dementia. Data were collected …
Cultural Myths, Superstitions, and Stigma Surrounding Dementia in a UK Bangladeshi Community
The last three census data highlighted that UK Bangladeshi communities have the worst health outcomes. This includes a higher risk of type two diabetes and heart diseases; both are risk factors for developing vascular dementia. However, little is known about Bangladeshi community members’ understandings of dementia, including cultural myths. This paper focuses on the cultural myths, superstitions, and stigma surrounding dementia in an English Ban…
Communication skills training for family caregivers of people living with dementia
Family caregivers of people with dementia can find the impairments in their relative’s ability to communicate an enormous challenge. Peer facilitated educational interventions are a potentially efficient and effective way to address these complex communication issues. This paper examines the processes required to support the development of peer educators and the impact this has had on facilitators and course attendees. Semi-structured interviews …
(Dis)orientation and Design Preferences Within an Unfamiliar Care Environment
Ensuring that environments are designed to cater for those with decreasing orientation, perceptual and mobility skills, is an example of how environments are being changed to become more age and dementia friendly. However, environmental design should directly involve potential users of the environment to ensure that their views are accounted for. Four open-ended questions, focusing on orientation strategies, reasons for disorientation, and design…
From repeating routes to planning novel routes
The integration of intersecting routes is an important process for the formation of cognitive maps and thus successful navigation. Here we present a novel task to study route integration and the effects that landmark information and cognitive ageing have on this process. We created two virtual environments, each comprising five places and one central intersection but with different landmark settings: in the Identical Landmark environment, the int…
Exploring the impact of live music performances on the wellbeing of community dwelling people living with dementia and their care partners
Music-based initiatives cover a wide range of activity, including music therapy in either an individual or group capacity, choirs, orchestral performances, and apps on digital technology enabling people to engage with individual playlists. The impact of live music performances on the wellbeing of people living with dementia in the community is less well understood. To explore if attending a live music café impacts the wellbeing of community dwell…
Self-reported benefits for care partners of attending a person-centred dementia cafe
Informal care partners of individuals with dementia are often referred to as the ‘invisible patient’, whose needs are under-represented in research. The physical, mental and emotional responsibilities of caring for someone with dementia can be both rewarding and challenging. This qualitative study explored how attending a dementia cafe affected care partner well-being. The co-designed cafe adopted a person-centred approach, valuing members’ uniqu…
Perspectives of people living with dementia and their care partners about the impact on social health when participating in a co‐designed Dementia café
Those diagnosed with dementia and those who provide care and support often feel socially isolated with limited opportunities for social engagement, increasing the potential for loneliness and further isolation that is detrimental to social health. This study examined how a co-designed dementia café impacted on the self-reported social health of community dwelling people with dementia and their care partners in the North-West of England. Semi-stru…
Music‐making in the community with people living with dementia and care‐partners – ‘I'm leaving feeling on top of the world’
Evidence exists relating to music-based initiatives and positive health outcomes for people living with dementia who can access them. Yet, knowledge about the impact of 'music-making' on the well-being of community-dwelling people with dementia is limited. Much of the existing evidence about the benefits of music is focused on care home settings where initiatives can be readily applied as part of a weekly schedule of activities. Therefore, this i…
It's just so important that people's voices are heard”
Exploring the ‘active mechanisms’ for engaging rural-dwelling older men with dementia in a community technological initiative
Research has suggested ecopsychosocial initiatives can promote a sense of wellbeing and inclusion in people with dementia. However, few studies have elucidated the ‘active mechanisms’ whereby such initiatives can achieve these outcomes, so hindering their generalisability. This is particularly pertinent when seeking to support community-dwelling older men with dementia who are reluctant to engage with traditional health and social care initiative…
Stronger together
Background This paper reports on the learning from a 12-month interdisciplinary project (Dementia, Arts and Wellbeing Network- DA&WN) and its activities. These featured a series of four workshops on dance, visual art, theatre and music. The network was comprised of clinicians, academics, creative practitioners and people with lived experience of dementia and their carers. Methods The workshops were designed to draw out tacit knowledge about well-…
All the corridors are the same’
Environments need to be designed such that they support successful orientation for older adults and those with dementia who often experience marked difficulties in their orientation abilities. To better understand how environments can compensate for decreasing orientation skills, voice should be given directly to those experiencing dementia to describe how they find their way and to understand their design preferences. This study explored the nav…
Extra care
Purpose The perspectives of people with dementia and their care partners regarding “extra care” housing are currently unknown. The purpose of this paper is to report findings of a consultation study exploring the perceived barriers and facilitators of a relocation to extra care housing, from the perspective of people living with dementia, and their care partners. Design/methodology/approach Fieldwork consisted of paired or 1-1 interviews and smal…
Dichotomising dementia
This article discusses the reduction of the complex experience of dementia to a dichotomised 'tragedy' or 'living well' discourse in contemporary Western society. We explore both discourses, placing them in the context of a successful ageing paradigm, highlighting the complex nature of dementia and the risks associated with the emergence of these arguably competing discourses. Specifically, we explore this dichotomy in the context of societal und…
Dementia-friendly communities
Dementia-friendly communities (DFCs) are a UK policy initiative that aims to enable people with dementia to feel supported and included within their local community. Current approaches to DFC creation rely on stakeholder involvement, often requiring volunteer assistance. There is though a lack of evidence that examines the reality of achieving this. This paper critically assesses the challenges and strategies for achieving stakeholder involvement…
Does Digital Gaming Enable Healthy Aging for Community-Dwelling People With Dementia
This article critically explores the benefits of commercial digital gaming technology for healthy aging of people with dementia. Research with community-dwelling people with dementia has highlighted the need for enhanced access to nonpharmacological interventions to support social engagement. Commercially available technologies offer a means to engage people with dementia. This article expands on this body of knowledge by assessing the benefits o…
Informal caregivers' hopes and expectations of a referral to a memory clinic
Dichotomising dementia
This article discusses the reduction of the complex experience of dementia to a dichotomised 'tragedy' or 'living well' discourse in contemporary Western society. We explore both discourses, placing them in the context of a successful ageing paradigm, highlighting the complex nature of dementia and the risks associated with the emergence of these arguably competing discourses. Specifically, we explore this dichotomy in the context of societal und…
Dementia care provision in rural Scotland
There has been global neglect of service users' and carers' experiences of dementia care provision in rural areas. The present paper draws on a qualitative study of service provision for people with dementia and their carers in remote and rural Scotland. It draws on interviews with 15 people with dementia and 16 carers to explore their views about health and social dementia care service provision in rural Scotland. A further 14 carers of people w…
Dementia-friendly communities
Dementia-friendly communities (DFCs) are a UK policy initiative that aims to enable people with dementia to feel supported and included within their local community. Current approaches to DFC creation rely on stakeholder involvement, often requiring volunteer assistance. There is though a lack of evidence that examines the reality of achieving this. This paper critically assesses the challenges and strategies for achieving stakeholder involvement…
Living with dementia in rural and remote Scotland
Does Digital Gaming Enable Healthy Aging for Community-Dwelling People With Dementia
This article critically explores the benefits of commercial digital gaming technology for healthy aging of people with dementia. Research with community-dwelling people with dementia has highlighted the need for enhanced access to nonpharmacological interventions to support social engagement. Commercially available technologies offer a means to engage people with dementia. This article expands on this body of knowledge by assessing the benefits o…
Informal caregivers' hopes and expectations of a referral to a memory clinic
The social and political context of formal dementia care provision
Dementia care is in transition, and the potential exists for a radical reform of the provision of services to people with dementia. Recent developments in Scotland based on the report of the Royal Commission on Long Term Care, With Respect to Old Age , provide an example of the possibilities and opportunities available to governments for creating services based on principles of equity and justice. It is timely therefore to consider the implicatio…
Perspectives of people living with dementia and their care partners about the impact on social health when participating in a co‐designed Dementia café
Those diagnosed with dementia and those who provide care and support often feel socially isolated with limited opportunities for social engagement, increasing the potential for loneliness and further isolation that is detrimental to social health. This study examined how a co-designed dementia café impacted on the self-reported social health of community dwelling people with dementia and their care partners in the North-West of England. Semi-stru…
All the corridors are the same’
Environments need to be designed such that they support successful orientation for older adults and those with dementia who often experience marked difficulties in their orientation abilities. To better understand how environments can compensate for decreasing orientation skills, voice should be given directly to those experiencing dementia to describe how they find their way and to understand their design preferences. This study explored the nav…
Controlling Levallois
Discussions of the Levallois method typically focus on the preparation of the core surface geometry as the primary factor in determining the characteristics of Levallois products. While some studies have acknowledged the role of knapping gestures, there is still limited empirical investigation into how different force application parameters influence the formation of these flakes. This study presents the results from a set of controlled experimen…
Cultural Myths, Superstitions, and Stigma Surrounding Dementia in a UK Bangladeshi Community
The last three census data highlighted that UK Bangladeshi communities have the worst health outcomes. This includes a higher risk of type two diabetes and heart diseases; both are risk factors for developing vascular dementia. However, little is known about Bangladeshi community members’ understandings of dementia, including cultural myths. This paper focuses on the cultural myths, superstitions, and stigma surrounding dementia in an English Ban…
Music‐making in the community with people living with dementia and care‐partners – ‘I'm leaving feeling on top of the world’
Evidence exists relating to music-based initiatives and positive health outcomes for people living with dementia who can access them. Yet, knowledge about the impact of 'music-making' on the well-being of community-dwelling people with dementia is limited. Much of the existing evidence about the benefits of music is focused on care home settings where initiatives can be readily applied as part of a weekly schedule of activities. Therefore, this i…
It's just so important that people's voices are heard”
Exploring the ‘active mechanisms’ for engaging rural-dwelling older men with dementia in a community technological initiative
Research has suggested ecopsychosocial initiatives can promote a sense of wellbeing and inclusion in people with dementia. However, few studies have elucidated the ‘active mechanisms’ whereby such initiatives can achieve these outcomes, so hindering their generalisability. This is particularly pertinent when seeking to support community-dwelling older men with dementia who are reluctant to engage with traditional health and social care initiative…
Dementia Care Mapping
This paper discusses the usefulness of Dementia Care Mapping, with specific reference to social workers interested in evaluating dementia care and/or ascertaining the well-being of individuals with dementia. The rise in the method's popularity in the last decade is outlined with reference to contemporary developments in the dementia care field. The mechanics of the method are briefly discussed with suggestions as to how the tool may be beneficial…
The social and political context of formal dementia care provision
Dementia care is in transition, and the potential exists for a radical reform of the provision of services to people with dementia. Recent developments in Scotland based on the report of the Royal Commission on Long Term Care, With Respect to Old Age , provide an example of the possibilities and opportunities available to governments for creating services based on principles of equity and justice. It is timely therefore to consider the implicatio…
Dementia care provision in rural Scotland
There has been global neglect of service users' and carers' experiences of dementia care provision in rural areas. The present paper draws on a qualitative study of service provision for people with dementia and their carers in remote and rural Scotland. It draws on interviews with 15 people with dementia and 16 carers to explore their views about health and social dementia care service provision in rural Scotland. A further 14 carers of people w…
Living with dementia in rural and remote Scotland
Informal caregivers' hopes and expectations of a referral to a memory clinic
Dementia-friendly communities
Dementia-friendly communities (DFCs) are a UK policy initiative that aims to enable people with dementia to feel supported and included within their local community. Current approaches to DFC creation rely on stakeholder involvement, often requiring volunteer assistance. There is though a lack of evidence that examines the reality of achieving this. This paper critically assesses the challenges and strategies for achieving stakeholder involvement…
Does Digital Gaming Enable Healthy Aging for Community-Dwelling People With Dementia
This article critically explores the benefits of commercial digital gaming technology for healthy aging of people with dementia. Research with community-dwelling people with dementia has highlighted the need for enhanced access to nonpharmacological interventions to support social engagement. Commercially available technologies offer a means to engage people with dementia. This article expands on this body of knowledge by assessing the benefits o…
Extra care
Purpose The perspectives of people with dementia and their care partners regarding “extra care” housing are currently unknown. The purpose of this paper is to report findings of a consultation study exploring the perceived barriers and facilitators of a relocation to extra care housing, from the perspective of people living with dementia, and their care partners. Design/methodology/approach Fieldwork consisted of paired or 1-1 interviews and smal…
Dichotomising dementia
This article discusses the reduction of the complex experience of dementia to a dichotomised 'tragedy' or 'living well' discourse in contemporary Western society. We explore both discourses, placing them in the context of a successful ageing paradigm, highlighting the complex nature of dementia and the risks associated with the emergence of these arguably competing discourses. Specifically, we explore this dichotomy in the context of societal und…
All the corridors are the same’
Environments need to be designed such that they support successful orientation for older adults and those with dementia who often experience marked difficulties in their orientation abilities. To better understand how environments can compensate for decreasing orientation skills, voice should be given directly to those experiencing dementia to describe how they find their way and to understand their design preferences. This study explored the nav…
Stronger together
Background This paper reports on the learning from a 12-month interdisciplinary project (Dementia, Arts and Wellbeing Network- DA&WN) and its activities. These featured a series of four workshops on dance, visual art, theatre and music. The network was comprised of clinicians, academics, creative practitioners and people with lived experience of dementia and their carers. Methods The workshops were designed to draw out tacit knowledge about well-…
Exploring the ‘active mechanisms’ for engaging rural-dwelling older men with dementia in a community technological initiative
Research has suggested ecopsychosocial initiatives can promote a sense of wellbeing and inclusion in people with dementia. However, few studies have elucidated the ‘active mechanisms’ whereby such initiatives can achieve these outcomes, so hindering their generalisability. This is particularly pertinent when seeking to support community-dwelling older men with dementia who are reluctant to engage with traditional health and social care initiative…
From repeating routes to planning novel routes
The integration of intersecting routes is an important process for the formation of cognitive maps and thus successful navigation. Here we present a novel task to study route integration and the effects that landmark information and cognitive ageing have on this process. We created two virtual environments, each comprising five places and one central intersection but with different landmark settings: in the Identical Landmark environment, the int…
Exploring the impact of live music performances on the wellbeing of community dwelling people living with dementia and their care partners
Music-based initiatives cover a wide range of activity, including music therapy in either an individual or group capacity, choirs, orchestral performances, and apps on digital technology enabling people to engage with individual playlists. The impact of live music performances on the wellbeing of people living with dementia in the community is less well understood. To explore if attending a live music café impacts the wellbeing of community dwell…
Self-reported benefits for care partners of attending a person-centred dementia cafe
Informal care partners of individuals with dementia are often referred to as the ‘invisible patient’, whose needs are under-represented in research. The physical, mental and emotional responsibilities of caring for someone with dementia can be both rewarding and challenging. This qualitative study explored how attending a dementia cafe affected care partner well-being. The co-designed cafe adopted a person-centred approach, valuing members’ uniqu…
Perspectives of people living with dementia and their care partners about the impact on social health when participating in a co‐designed Dementia café
Those diagnosed with dementia and those who provide care and support often feel socially isolated with limited opportunities for social engagement, increasing the potential for loneliness and further isolation that is detrimental to social health. This study examined how a co-designed dementia café impacted on the self-reported social health of community dwelling people with dementia and their care partners in the North-West of England. Semi-stru…
Music‐making in the community with people living with dementia and care‐partners – ‘I'm leaving feeling on top of the world’
Evidence exists relating to music-based initiatives and positive health outcomes for people living with dementia who can access them. Yet, knowledge about the impact of 'music-making' on the well-being of community-dwelling people with dementia is limited. Much of the existing evidence about the benefits of music is focused on care home settings where initiatives can be readily applied as part of a weekly schedule of activities. Therefore, this i…
It's just so important that people's voices are heard”
Communication skills training for family caregivers of people living with dementia
Family caregivers of people with dementia can find the impairments in their relative’s ability to communicate an enormous challenge. Peer facilitated educational interventions are a potentially efficient and effective way to address these complex communication issues. This paper examines the processes required to support the development of peer educators and the impact this has had on facilitators and course attendees. Semi-structured interviews …
(Dis)orientation and Design Preferences Within an Unfamiliar Care Environment
Ensuring that environments are designed to cater for those with decreasing orientation, perceptual and mobility skills, is an example of how environments are being changed to become more age and dementia friendly. However, environmental design should directly involve potential users of the environment to ensure that their views are accounted for. Four open-ended questions, focusing on orientation strategies, reasons for disorientation, and design…
Understandings and Perceived Benefits of Outdoor-Based Support for People Living with Dementia
The importance of the outdoors for supporting well-being is recognized, but less is known about the role of the outdoors in supporting people living with dementia. The aim of this study was to examine three stakeholder groups' understandings about outdoor-based support and care for people living with dementia to help understand what might be done to maximize the outdoors as a source of support for people living with dementia. Data were collected …
Cultural Myths, Superstitions, and Stigma Surrounding Dementia in a UK Bangladeshi Community
The last three census data highlighted that UK Bangladeshi communities have the worst health outcomes. This includes a higher risk of type two diabetes and heart diseases; both are risk factors for developing vascular dementia. However, little is known about Bangladeshi community members’ understandings of dementia, including cultural myths. This paper focuses on the cultural myths, superstitions, and stigma surrounding dementia in an English Ban…
Green Care Farms as an Approach to Support People Living with Dementia
How to best support people living with dementia and their care partners living in the community to maximize their quality of life and quality of living through appropriate and effective non-pharmaceutical approaches remains a focus of dementia societies and organizations worldwide. This paper examines the views of a range of stakeholders about the potential of green care farms in Canada, a country new to the concept of the green care farm approac…
Perceptions of a UK Bangladeshi community on accessing dementia health and care services within the context of the English National Dementia Strategy
Bangladeshi communities experience poor health outcomes and have higher risk factors for vascular dementia. This article explores the perceptions of people living with dementia, as well as the perceptions of their family members and caregivers, and gathers their views on current dementia support services in order to make recommendations to improve the provision of dementia support services in a UK Bangladeshi community. A total of 25 semi-structu…
Addressing stigma, mistrust, and power within integrated care work
Background: Integrated care is about removing barriers to effective, coordinated, and person-centred care. Often, the language used to describe barriers revolves around fragmentation, for example, siloed care delivery or communication gaps. However, even the joining-up of services will not achieve the ideal of “the right care at the right time in the right place” without addressing other barriers to accessing care. These barriers include stigma, …
Medicine (23 works) · Psychology (23 works) · Dementia (22 works) · Nursing (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (9 works) · Disease (8 works) · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (8 works) · Gerontology (8 works) · Political science (8 works)