Georgina Charlesworth
Biographic Data
| ID | 222572 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Georgina Charlesworth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Georgina |
| FAMILY NAME | Charlesworth |
| SIGNATURE | CHARLESWORTH G |
| AFFILIATIONS | North East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5278-1756 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Everyday technology's interplay in the lives of people with dementia: A multiple case study in the rural North of England
Everyday life in rural places can be hampered by many different infrastructural challenges for which technology is often considered a panacea. However, little is known about technological interactions among people living rurally with dementia, who more often live alone and make up a larger proportion of the rural population in England compared to urban. Assemblage theory in a multiple case study approach used field notes and data from a mix of in…
Discours sur la démence et le déclin au Royaume-Uni
La notion d’indépendance occupe une place prépondérante dans les stratégies actuelles de réponse à l’exclusion sociale des personnes atteintes de démence au Royaume-Uni, s’inscrivant dans un récit plus large de « bien vivre » dans la maladie. Cet article explore les implications pratiques de l’application de cette notion. Il se base sur une étude de six entretiens qualitatifs avec des chercheurs développant une intervention psychosociale dans ce …
Social Participation in Relation to Technology Use and Social Deprivation: A Mixed Methods Study Among Older People with and without Dementia
Social participation is a modifiable determinant for health and wellbeing among older people; however, social participation is increasingly dependent on technology use. This study investigated social participation in relation to Everyday Technology use and social deprivation of the living environment, among older people with and without dementia in the United Kingdom. Sixty-four people with dementia and sixty-four people without dementia were int…
Kaleidoscopic associations between life outside home and the technological environment that shape occupational injustice as revealed through cross-sectional statistical modelling
BACKGROUND: Everyday life outside home and accessing a variety of places are central to occupation. Technology is ever more taken for granted, even outside home, and for some may culminate in occupational injustice. This study aims to explore the association between everyday technologies (ET), particularly out of home, and the number of places older adults with and without dementia go to, in rural and urban environments. METHOD: The Everyday Tech…
Selling surveillance technology: Semiotic themes in advertisements for ageing in place with dementia
Six advertisements were explored that sell surveillance technologies for people living with dementia through qualitative content analysis. Advertisements from the United Kingdom, Sweden, and the Netherlands were analysed to explore semiotic textual meaning and people living with dementia (N = 5) and carers (N = 4) responded to these advertisements. The semiotic themes report a “wanderer” discourse which signals to track people living with dementi…
Cognitive decline and distinction: A new line of fracture in later life
Cognitive decline and dementia have become major concerns for many individuals reaching later life within contemporary Western societies. This fear of decline is central to the social divide between the third age embodying ideals of maintained health, activity and lifestyle choices, and the fourth age, a social imaginary encompassing the irreversible decline associated with ageing. In this article, we explore how brain-training technologies have …
Maintaining Social Connections in Dementia: A Qualitative Synthesis
The clinical symptoms of dementia include difficulty with speech, poor short-term memory, and changes in behavior. These symptoms can affect how the person with dementia understands and performs in social interactions. This qualitative review investigated how people with mild to moderate dementia managed social connections. A systematic search of social science databases retrieved 13 articles; data were synthesized using thematic analysis. Result…
Embedding patient and public involvement: Managing tacit and explicit expectations
BACKGROUND: Evidencing well-planned and implemented patient and public involvement (PPI) in a research project is increasingly required in funding bids and dissemination activities. There is a tacit expectation that involving people with experience of the condition under study will improve the integrity and quality of the research. This expectation remains largely unproblematized and unchallenged. OBJECTIVE: To critically evaluate the implementat…
Facilitators and barriers to co‐research by people with dementia and academic researchers: Findings from a qualitative study
BACKGROUND: Public and patient involvement (PPI) is now established in dementia research. Barriers and facilitators to engagement from family carers and people in early stages of dementia have been explored. However, specific barriers and facilitators to co-research with people with dementia have not previously been investigated. OBJECTIVE: To discover the facilitators of, and barriers to, involving people with dementia as co-researchers, from th…
The Adaptation and Feasibility of Narrative Enhancement and Cognitive Therapy (Nect) for Late-Onset Psychosis
The aim of this study is to adapt and feasibility test the narrative component of Narrative Enhancement and Cognitive Therapy (NECT) for late-onset psychosis. This study followed the development and feasibility phases of the Medical Research Council framework. The original NECT intervention was adapted based on consultations with service users, experts, and clinicians. The evaluation of the feasibility test of the adapted intervention was guided …
Practitioners’ understanding of barriers to accessing specialist support by family carers of people with dementia in distress
Distressing symptoms in dementia are hard to manage for many family carers. This article explores practitioners’ perceptions of the barriers to accessing skilled behaviour management support encountered by carers. A survey of cases referred to the English National Health Service ( n = 5,360) was followed by in-depth group discussions and practitioner interviews. Data revealed that practitioners focused on care home residents or older people with …
Shifting dementia discourses from deficit to active citizenship
Within western cultures, portrayals of dementia as 'a living death' are being challenged by people living with the diagnosis. Yet dementia remains one of the most feared conditions. The sociological lens of citizenship provides a conceptual framework for reviewing the role of society and culture in repositioning dementia away from deficit to a discourse of agency and interdependence. Awareness of cognitive change, and engaging with the diagnostic…
The impact of volunteering on the volunteer: Findings from a peer support programme for family carers of people with dementia
With an ageing population, there are increasing numbers of experienced family carers (FCs) who could provide peer support to newer carers in a similar care situation. The aims of this paper are to: (i) use a cross-sectional study design to compare characteristics of volunteers and recipients of a peer support programme for FCs of people with dementia, in terms of demographic background, social networks and psychological well-being; and (ii) use a…
Barriers to Social Participation among Lonely Older Adults: The Influence of Social Fears and Identity
INTRODUCTION: Loneliness among older adults is a major public health problem that may be associated with processes of social participation and identity. This study therefore sought to examine the relationship between social participation and identity in a sample of lonely older adults living independently in London, England. METHOD: An inductive qualitative approach, based on semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis, was employed. RESULTS…
Involving service users in the development of the S upport at H ome: I nterventions to E nhance L ife in D ementia C arer S upporter P rogramme for family carers of people with dementia
BACKGROUND: Involving service users in research can be an effective way of improving the practicalities and acceptability of interventions for target end users. OBJECTIVES: The current paper presented two consensus methods, not commonly used in consultation with service users, to develop a peer support intervention for family carers of people with dementia (SHIELD Carer Supporter Programme). DESIGN: Study 1 was a modified Delphi process combined …
A Narrative Enquiry of Experienced Family Carers of People with Dementia Volunteering in a Carer Supporter Programme
Whilst positive and negative aspects of general volunteering have been noted in the literature, little is known about the experience of volunteering to provide peer support to carers of people with dementia. The present study explored the impact of participating in a carer supporter programme in the context of previous caring experiences. Eight carer supporters, who had participated in the programme for at least 5 months, took part in semi‐struct…
Shifting dementia discourses from deficit to active citizenship
Within western cultures, portrayals of dementia as 'a living death' are being challenged by people living with the diagnosis. Yet dementia remains one of the most feared conditions. The sociological lens of citizenship provides a conceptual framework for reviewing the role of society and culture in repositioning dementia away from deficit to a discourse of agency and interdependence. Awareness of cognitive change, and engaging with the diagnostic…
The impact of volunteering on the volunteer: Findings from a peer support programme for family carers of people with dementia
With an ageing population, there are increasing numbers of experienced family carers (FCs) who could provide peer support to newer carers in a similar care situation. The aims of this paper are to: (i) use a cross-sectional study design to compare characteristics of volunteers and recipients of a peer support programme for FCs of people with dementia, in terms of demographic background, social networks and psychological well-being; and (ii) use a…
Maintaining Social Connections in Dementia: A Qualitative Synthesis
The clinical symptoms of dementia include difficulty with speech, poor short-term memory, and changes in behavior. These symptoms can affect how the person with dementia understands and performs in social interactions. This qualitative review investigated how people with mild to moderate dementia managed social connections. A systematic search of social science databases retrieved 13 articles; data were synthesized using thematic analysis. Result…
Selling surveillance technology: Semiotic themes in advertisements for ageing in place with dementia
Six advertisements were explored that sell surveillance technologies for people living with dementia through qualitative content analysis. Advertisements from the United Kingdom, Sweden, and the Netherlands were analysed to explore semiotic textual meaning and people living with dementia (N = 5) and carers (N = 4) responded to these advertisements. The semiotic themes report a “wanderer” discourse which signals to track people living with dementi…
A Narrative Enquiry of Experienced Family Carers of People with Dementia Volunteering in a Carer Supporter Programme
Whilst positive and negative aspects of general volunteering have been noted in the literature, little is known about the experience of volunteering to provide peer support to carers of people with dementia. The present study explored the impact of participating in a carer supporter programme in the context of previous caring experiences. Eight carer supporters, who had participated in the programme for at least 5 months, took part in semi‐struct…
Everyday technology's interplay in the lives of people with dementia: A multiple case study in the rural North of England
Everyday life in rural places can be hampered by many different infrastructural challenges for which technology is often considered a panacea. However, little is known about technological interactions among people living rurally with dementia, who more often live alone and make up a larger proportion of the rural population in England compared to urban. Assemblage theory in a multiple case study approach used field notes and data from a mix of in…
Kaleidoscopic associations between life outside home and the technological environment that shape occupational injustice as revealed through cross-sectional statistical modelling
BACKGROUND: Everyday life outside home and accessing a variety of places are central to occupation. Technology is ever more taken for granted, even outside home, and for some may culminate in occupational injustice. This study aims to explore the association between everyday technologies (ET), particularly out of home, and the number of places older adults with and without dementia go to, in rural and urban environments. METHOD: The Everyday Tech…
Cognitive decline and distinction: A new line of fracture in later life
Cognitive decline and dementia have become major concerns for many individuals reaching later life within contemporary Western societies. This fear of decline is central to the social divide between the third age embodying ideals of maintained health, activity and lifestyle choices, and the fourth age, a social imaginary encompassing the irreversible decline associated with ageing. In this article, we explore how brain-training technologies have …
Practitioners’ understanding of barriers to accessing specialist support by family carers of people with dementia in distress
Distressing symptoms in dementia are hard to manage for many family carers. This article explores practitioners’ perceptions of the barriers to accessing skilled behaviour management support encountered by carers. A survey of cases referred to the English National Health Service ( n = 5,360) was followed by in-depth group discussions and practitioner interviews. Data revealed that practitioners focused on care home residents or older people with …
A Narrative Enquiry of Experienced Family Carers of People with Dementia Volunteering in a Carer Supporter Programme
Whilst positive and negative aspects of general volunteering have been noted in the literature, little is known about the experience of volunteering to provide peer support to carers of people with dementia. The present study explored the impact of participating in a carer supporter programme in the context of previous caring experiences. Eight carer supporters, who had participated in the programme for at least 5 months, took part in semi‐struct…
Barriers to Social Participation among Lonely Older Adults: The Influence of Social Fears and Identity
INTRODUCTION: Loneliness among older adults is a major public health problem that may be associated with processes of social participation and identity. This study therefore sought to examine the relationship between social participation and identity in a sample of lonely older adults living independently in London, England. METHOD: An inductive qualitative approach, based on semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis, was employed. RESULTS…
Involving service users in the development of the S upport at H ome: I nterventions to E nhance L ife in D ementia C arer S upporter P rogramme for family carers of people with dementia
BACKGROUND: Involving service users in research can be an effective way of improving the practicalities and acceptability of interventions for target end users. OBJECTIVES: The current paper presented two consensus methods, not commonly used in consultation with service users, to develop a peer support intervention for family carers of people with dementia (SHIELD Carer Supporter Programme). DESIGN: Study 1 was a modified Delphi process combined …
The impact of volunteering on the volunteer: Findings from a peer support programme for family carers of people with dementia
With an ageing population, there are increasing numbers of experienced family carers (FCs) who could provide peer support to newer carers in a similar care situation. The aims of this paper are to: (i) use a cross-sectional study design to compare characteristics of volunteers and recipients of a peer support programme for FCs of people with dementia, in terms of demographic background, social networks and psychological well-being; and (ii) use a…
Shifting dementia discourses from deficit to active citizenship
Within western cultures, portrayals of dementia as 'a living death' are being challenged by people living with the diagnosis. Yet dementia remains one of the most feared conditions. The sociological lens of citizenship provides a conceptual framework for reviewing the role of society and culture in repositioning dementia away from deficit to a discourse of agency and interdependence. Awareness of cognitive change, and engaging with the diagnostic…
Practitioners’ understanding of barriers to accessing specialist support by family carers of people with dementia in distress
Distressing symptoms in dementia are hard to manage for many family carers. This article explores practitioners’ perceptions of the barriers to accessing skilled behaviour management support encountered by carers. A survey of cases referred to the English National Health Service ( n = 5,360) was followed by in-depth group discussions and practitioner interviews. Data revealed that practitioners focused on care home residents or older people with …
Embedding patient and public involvement: Managing tacit and explicit expectations
BACKGROUND: Evidencing well-planned and implemented patient and public involvement (PPI) in a research project is increasingly required in funding bids and dissemination activities. There is a tacit expectation that involving people with experience of the condition under study will improve the integrity and quality of the research. This expectation remains largely unproblematized and unchallenged. OBJECTIVE: To critically evaluate the implementat…
Facilitators and barriers to co‐research by people with dementia and academic researchers: Findings from a qualitative study
BACKGROUND: Public and patient involvement (PPI) is now established in dementia research. Barriers and facilitators to engagement from family carers and people in early stages of dementia have been explored. However, specific barriers and facilitators to co-research with people with dementia have not previously been investigated. OBJECTIVE: To discover the facilitators of, and barriers to, involving people with dementia as co-researchers, from th…
The Adaptation and Feasibility of Narrative Enhancement and Cognitive Therapy (Nect) for Late-Onset Psychosis
The aim of this study is to adapt and feasibility test the narrative component of Narrative Enhancement and Cognitive Therapy (NECT) for late-onset psychosis. This study followed the development and feasibility phases of the Medical Research Council framework. The original NECT intervention was adapted based on consultations with service users, experts, and clinicians. The evaluation of the feasibility test of the adapted intervention was guided …
Social Participation in Relation to Technology Use and Social Deprivation: A Mixed Methods Study Among Older People with and without Dementia
Social participation is a modifiable determinant for health and wellbeing among older people; however, social participation is increasingly dependent on technology use. This study investigated social participation in relation to Everyday Technology use and social deprivation of the living environment, among older people with and without dementia in the United Kingdom. Sixty-four people with dementia and sixty-four people without dementia were int…
Kaleidoscopic associations between life outside home and the technological environment that shape occupational injustice as revealed through cross-sectional statistical modelling
BACKGROUND: Everyday life outside home and accessing a variety of places are central to occupation. Technology is ever more taken for granted, even outside home, and for some may culminate in occupational injustice. This study aims to explore the association between everyday technologies (ET), particularly out of home, and the number of places older adults with and without dementia go to, in rural and urban environments. METHOD: The Everyday Tech…
Selling surveillance technology: Semiotic themes in advertisements for ageing in place with dementia
Six advertisements were explored that sell surveillance technologies for people living with dementia through qualitative content analysis. Advertisements from the United Kingdom, Sweden, and the Netherlands were analysed to explore semiotic textual meaning and people living with dementia (N = 5) and carers (N = 4) responded to these advertisements. The semiotic themes report a “wanderer” discourse which signals to track people living with dementi…
Cognitive decline and distinction: A new line of fracture in later life
Cognitive decline and dementia have become major concerns for many individuals reaching later life within contemporary Western societies. This fear of decline is central to the social divide between the third age embodying ideals of maintained health, activity and lifestyle choices, and the fourth age, a social imaginary encompassing the irreversible decline associated with ageing. In this article, we explore how brain-training technologies have …
Maintaining Social Connections in Dementia: A Qualitative Synthesis
The clinical symptoms of dementia include difficulty with speech, poor short-term memory, and changes in behavior. These symptoms can affect how the person with dementia understands and performs in social interactions. This qualitative review investigated how people with mild to moderate dementia managed social connections. A systematic search of social science databases retrieved 13 articles; data were synthesized using thematic analysis. Result…
Discours sur la démence et le déclin au Royaume-Uni
La notion d’indépendance occupe une place prépondérante dans les stratégies actuelles de réponse à l’exclusion sociale des personnes atteintes de démence au Royaume-Uni, s’inscrivant dans un récit plus large de « bien vivre » dans la maladie. Cet article explore les implications pratiques de l’application de cette notion. Il se base sur une étude de six entretiens qualitatifs avec des chercheurs développant une intervention psychosociale dans ce …
Everyday technology's interplay in the lives of people with dementia: A multiple case study in the rural North of England
Everyday life in rural places can be hampered by many different infrastructural challenges for which technology is often considered a panacea. However, little is known about technological interactions among people living rurally with dementia, who more often live alone and make up a larger proportion of the rural population in England compared to urban. Assemblage theory in a multiple case study approach used field notes and data from a mix of in…
Medicine (15 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Dementia (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (6 works) · Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (5 works) · Disease (5 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (5 works) · Political science (5 works)