Publications

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Recent publications:

Lorenz-Dant, K. and Comas-Herrera, A., 2021. The Impacts of COVID-19 on Unpaid Carers of Adults with Long-Term Care Needs and Measures to Address these Impacts: A Rapid Review of Evidence up to November 2020. Journal of Long-Term Care, (2021), pp.124–153. DOI: http://doi.org/10.31389/jltc.76

Adelina Comas-Herrera, Jose-Luis Fernandez, Ruth Hancock, Chris Hatton, Martin Knapp, David McDaid, Juliette Malley, Gerald Wistow & Raphael Wittenberg (2020) COVID-19: Implications for the Support of People with Social Care Needs in England, Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 32:4-5, 365-372, DOI: 10.1080/08959420.2020.1759759

Rajan, S., Comas-Herrera, A. and Mckee, M., 2020. Did the UK Government Really Throw a Protective Ring Around Care Homes in the COVID-19 Pandemic?. Journal of Long-Term Care, (2020), pp.185–195. DOI: http://doi.org/10.31389/jltc.53

Farina, N., King, D., Burgon, C. et al. Disease severity accounts for minimal variance of quality of life in people with dementia and their carers: analyses of cross-sectional data from the MODEM study. BMC Geriatr 20, 232 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-020-01629-1 

Raphael Wittenberg, Bo Hu, Carol Jagger, Andrew Kingston, Martin Knapp, Adelina Comas-Herrera, Derek King, Amritpal Rehill, Sube Banerjee, Projections of care for older people with dementia in England: 2015 to 2040, Age and Ageing, afz154, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afz154

Read S, Comas-Herrera A, Grundy E (2019) Social isolation and memory decline in later life, The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, gbz152, https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbz152

Breuer E, Comas-Herrera A, Docrat S, Freeman E, Schneider M and the STRiDE team (2019) STRiDE Theory of Change Workshops: Guidance and Resources. STRiDE Research Tool No.1 (version 2), Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London.

Salcher-Konrad M, Naci H, McDaid D, Alladi S, Oliveira D, Fry A, Hussei S, Knapp M, Musyimi C, Ndetei DM, Lopez Ortega M, Comas-Herrera A (2019) Effectiveness of interventions for dementia in low- and middle-income countries: Protocol for a systematic review, pairwise and network meta-analysis. BMJ Open   http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-027851

Spector A, Stoner CR, Chandra M, et al (2019) Mixed methods implementation research of cognitive stimulation therapy (CST) for dementia in low and middle-income countries: study protocol for Brazil, India and Tanzania (CST-International) BMJ Open doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2019-030933 https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/8/e030933.info

Wittenberg R, Knapp M, Hu B, Comas-Herrera A, King D, Rehill A, Shi C, Banerjee S, Patel A, Jagger C and Kingston A (2019) The costs of dementia in England. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry DOI: 10.1002/gps.5113. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/gps.5113

Lorenz K, Freddolino P, Comas-Herrera M, Damant J (2019) Technology-based tools and services for people with dementia and carers: Mapping technology onto the dementia care pathway. Dementia 18 (2): 725-741. http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/89069/

Kingston A, Comas-Herrera A and Jagger C, for the MODEM project (2018) Forecasting the care needs of the older population in England over the next 20 years: estimates from the Population Ageing and Care Simulation (PACSim) modelling study. Lancet Public Health (3): e447–55. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(18)30118-X/fulltext