The NIDUS Study
@NIDUS_study
The New Interventions for Independence in Dementia Study (NIDUS) aims to support people with dementia and their carers to live independently at home.
📢Delighted to share our results showing NIDUS-Family helps people with dementia and their family caters attain their personal goals 🎉 @ClaudiaACooper1 @alzheimerssoc Watch this space as we build on this work…@JessicaBudgett Please share: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S26…

Great to welcome @JayashreeDasgu2 & Prof Keerti to @QMULPsychiatry yesterday for a very interesting presentation on the challenges of developing dementia homecare in India 🇮🇳 Looking forward to continuing discussions in Bengaluru later this year! @NIDUS_study @ClaudiaACooper1
Great day filming with @ELLearnDesign yesterday developing our resources in preparation for NIDUS-Family implementation 🎬 Thanks to our family carers and study team who shared their experiences. Will share resources and more details about our implementation study soon!
Had a blast in the study yesterday with @NIDUS_study team! 🎉 Excited to collaborate and develop resources to support this scalable, personalised support program. Stay tuned for resources to spread the word about NIDUS! @QMULPsychiatry @denpru_qm @DrLizzieMills @BatesEllie
Looking forward to presenting our @DeNPRU_QM work highlighting training needs of socialcare workforce with @birksyvonne at this seminar @QMUL_WIPH @ClarissaGiebel @KarenDening1
The first of a series of webinars showcasing ongoing social care research in NIHR Policy Research Units, with an emphasis on policy messages, will be held on 11th December 14.00 - 17.00. Open to all: please register at this link lse.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
Had a fantastic day at the #dementiainvolvementawards celebrating the amazing work of the NIDUS PPI group 🏆 From the planning stage & co-design to now starting implementation, our PPI members have been invaluable - THANK YOU! 👏 @JessicaBudgett @ClaudiaACooper1 @alzheimerssoc


Congratulations @NIDUS_study PPI group on the nomination! Your partnership in co-creating NIDUS-family and NIDUS-professional are why these interventions were valued and helped participants - pleased to be continuing our work together as we plan their roll out @DrMegsArmstrong
The NIDUS programme PPI group for their involvement of people living with dementia, their carers and home care workers to develop new and improved ways to support people with dementia to live independently at home for longer. (3/9)
Congratulations to the @ NIDUS_study programme PPI group who have been shortlisted as finalists at the Alzheimer's Society's Dementia Involvement Awards. The interventions were co-designed by the PPI group, and they have been vital at every step of the studies. @alzheimerssoc
Just out: pre-implementation NIDUS-family @NIDUS_study: bit.ly/3Ww4W21 Health & social care valued this personalised dementia post-diagnostic programme, which improves attainment of treatment goals @alzheimerssoc @JillManthorpe @JessicaBudgett @DeNPRU_QM
On set with @carterchelt, @DanielleNimmons and our plant prop! 🎥🪴 Thanks @ELLearnDesign for filming the EQUATED study video on accessing dementia diagnosis in ethnic minority communities & the @NIDUS_study video on GAS goal setting. @DeNPRU_QM @QMULPsychiatry @ClaudiaACooper1
The home care workforce is a very important workforce looking after people at home so they can be independent and within their communities for as long as they can/wish. Super important research by @QMULPsychiatry! #HomeCare #dementia
Process evaluation for NIDUS-Professional by @danjkelleher @Dementia_UoB, lots to consider for next steps supporting home care workforce for people with dementia @QMULPsychiatry @DeNPRU_QM @PRIMENT_UCL @DrAnitaGoh @M_Wilberforce @birksyvonne academic.oup.com/ageing/article…
Vital evidence of thirst for training & support - A process evaluation of the NIDUS-Professional dementia training intervention for UK homecare workers academic.oup.com/ageing/article…
Process evaluation for NIDUS-Professional by @danjkelleher @Dementia_UoB, lots to consider for next steps supporting home care workforce for people with dementia @QMULPsychiatry @DeNPRU_QM @PRIMENT_UCL @DrAnitaGoh @M_Wilberforce @birksyvonne academic.oup.com/ageing/article…
Great to see this @NIDUS_study awarded Article of the Month (Feb) by @InterdemEurope. Congrats to team led by @ClaudiaACooper1 A psychosocial goal-setting and manualised support intervention for independence in dementia (NIDUS-Family) versus … pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38310894/
NIDUS-professional feasibility RCT published! Looking forward to building on them with @DeNPRU_QM @BluebirdCare @homeinstead @QMULPsychiatry @PRIMENT_UCL @KritikaSamsi academic.oup.com/ageing/article…
Fantastic day discussing planning our @DeNPRU_QM survey for home care services with @BluebirdCare @homeinstead agency managers and @KritikaSamsi @hscwru @DrAnitaGoh @NAgeingRI @ClaudiaACooper1 and planning next steps @NIDUS_study thanks all for coming to @QMULPsychiatry!
Exciting opportunity to join our supportive team and work on the NIDUS-Family implementation study based at @QMULPsychiatry. Great RA role to develop mixed methods research and clinical skills: qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies… Please RT 😊 @ClaudiaACooper1 @APPLE_TreeStudy @DeNPRU_QM
📢We have preprinted our pre-implementation study. We explored professional stakeholders’ perspectives of the NIDUS-Family support. We will use the findings to inform our next implementation study. @ClaudiaACooper1 @ayeshawdar @JessicaBudgett eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…
How did NIDUS-Family work? The NIDUS process evaluation results identified four key themes around being relationship-, person- and carer-focused. You can read the preprint here: medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… Great work by @DanielleWyman5 and team 👏 @ClaudiaACooper1 @alzheimerssoc
“the study is really exciting because it gives people the opportunity to help manage their own care, which is such an important part of things” Good to see US coverage of our newly released NIDUS-family intervention study medicalnewstoday.com/articles/new-p… via @mnt
Research led by Professor Claudia Cooper at @QMUL shows that a new therapy, NIDUS-Family, helps people with dementia and their family carers attain their personal goals. Read more about this research we funded: bit.ly/48XqZUl @DeNPRU_QM
New support intervention for people with dementia and carers shows ‘rare positive result' in trial led by @ClaudiaACooper1 at @DeNPRU_QM in @QMUL_WIPH, funded by @alzheimerssoc. NIDUS-family package of care and support helps people with dementia attain their personal goals.