Professor Esme Moniz-Cook

Professor Esme Moniz-Cook

Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology of Ageing and Dementia Care Research / Dementia Research Work Group Lead

Summary

Working with older people with dementia and families since 1987, Professor Esme Moniz-Cook has pioneered psychosocial approaches across the dementia trajectory.

She is passionate about improving the quality of dementia care through research that translates into practice.

Esme's European-funded award, 'Early Detection and Psychosocial Rehabilitation to Maintain Quality of Life in Dementia' (1997), founded INTERDEM, an international applied-research network, which publishes widely on psychosocial approaches to dementia.

She led ‘Challenge Demcare: Management of Challenging Behaviour in Dementia (2007-2017)' and has co-investigated twelve other dementia studies, totaling just under £ 17 million, since 2006.

Recent outputs

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Journal Article

Reimagining Dementia Care: A Complex Intervention Systematic Review on Optimising Social Prescribing (SP) for People Living with Dementia (PLWD) in the UK

Papavasiliou, E., Marshall, J., Allan, L., Bradbury, K., Fox, C., Hawkes, M., Irvine, A., Moniz-Cook, E., Pick, A., Polley, M., Rathbone, A., Reeve, J., Robinson, L., Rook, G., Sadler, E., Wolverson, E., Walker, S., Cross, J., & On behalf of the SPLENDID Collaboration. (2025). Reimagining Dementia Care: A Complex Intervention Systematic Review on Optimising Social Prescribing (SP) for People Living with Dementia (PLWD) in the UK. Health Expectations, 28(3), Article e70289. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.70289

Reimagining Dementia Care: A Complex Intervention Systematic Review on Optimising Social Prescribing (SP) for Carers of People Living with Dementia (PLWD) in the United Kingdom

Marshall, J., Papavasiliou, E., Allan, L., Bradbury, K., Fox, C., Hawkes, M., Irvine, A., Moniz-Cook, E., Pick, A., Polley, M., Rathbone, A., Reeve, J., Robinson, L., Rook, G., Sadler, E., Wolverson, E., Walker, S., Cross, J., & On behalf of the SPLENDID Collaboration. (2025). Reimagining Dementia Care: A Complex Intervention Systematic Review on Optimising Social Prescribing (SP) for Carers of People Living with Dementia (PLWD) in the United Kingdom. Health Expectations, 28(3), Article e70286. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.70286

A Scoping Review of Outcome Measures for People Living with Dementia and Family Supporters to Evaluate Recovery College Dementia Courses

Alam, J., West, J., Moniz-Cook, E., Wolverson, E., Handley, M., Birt, L., & Fox, C. (2025). A Scoping Review of Outcome Measures for People Living with Dementia and Family Supporters to Evaluate Recovery College Dementia Courses. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 16, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1591772

Instruments for assessing social health in the context of cognitive decline and dementia: a systematic review

Altona, J., Wiegelmann, H., Lenart-Bulga, M., Vernooij-Dassen, M., Verspoor, E., Seifert, I., Misonow, J., Szcześniak, D., Rymaszewska, J., Chattat, R., Jeon, Y. H., Moniz-Cook, E., Roes, M., Perry, M., & Wolf-Ostermann, K. (2024). Instruments for assessing social health in the context of cognitive decline and dementia: a systematic review. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15, Article 1387192. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1387192

Cost-utility analysis of adapted problem adaptation therapy for depression in mild-to-moderate dementia caused by Alzheimer's disease: PATHFINDER randomised controlled trial

Panca, M., Howard, R., Cort, E., Rawlinson, C., Gould, R. L., Wiegand, M., Downey, A. M., Banerjee, S., Fox, C., Harwood, R., Livingston, G., Moniz-Cook, E., Russell, G., Thomas, A., Wilkinson, P., Freemantle, N., & Hunter, R. M. (2024). Cost-utility analysis of adapted problem adaptation therapy for depression in mild-to-moderate dementia caused by Alzheimer's disease: PATHFINDER randomised controlled trial. BJPsych Open, 10(6), Article e189. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2024.775

Lead investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

AQUEDUCT

Funder

Nottingham University Hospitals

Grant

£23,014.00

Started

1 March 2016

Status

Complete

Project

Evaluation of a complex intervention of journeying through dementia, with internal pilot trial with

Funder

NIHR National Institute for Health Research

Grant

£347,720.00

Started

1 December 2015

Status

Complete

Project

PRIDE

Funder

ESRC Economic & Social Research Council

Grant

£19,221.00

Started

1 March 2014

Status

Complete

Project

DiSCOVERY: Post-Diagnostic Dementia Support within the ReCOVERY College Model: A Realist Evaluation

Funder

NIHR National Institute for Health Research

Grant

£17,218.00

Started

1 January 2022

Status

Complete

Postgraduate supervision

Professor Moniz-Cook welcomes discussion with senior staff who would like co-supervision for dementia care Masters and Doctoral student projects and / or planning, reviewing and advice on publishing Masters and Doctoral dementia research in peer review journals.

Completed PhDs

Example: PhD (UCL)-completed 2016

Feast A, Orrell M, Charlesworth G, Melunsky N, Poland F and Moniz-Cook E (2016) 'Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms in Dementia (BPSD) and the challenges or family carers: a systematic review', British Journal of Psychiatry, 208 (5) 429-434 DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.114.153684

Feast, A, Moniz-Cook, E., Stoner, C., Charlesworth G & Orrell M (2016) 'A systematic review of the relationship between Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms (BPSD) and caregiver wellbeing', International Psychogeriatrics, 28:11, 1761-1774

Feast A, Orrell M, Russell I, Charlesworth G, & Moniz-Cook E (2017) 'The contribution of caregiver psychosocial factors to distress associated with behavioural and psychological symptoms in dementia', International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 32, 1,76-85 DOI: 10.1002/gps.4447

Feast A, Orrell M, Charlesworth C, Poland F, Featherstone K, Melunsky N, Moniz-Cook E (in press) 'Meta-Ethnography to Synthesise Relevant Studies: Capturing the Bigger Picture in Dementia with Challenging Behaviour within Families', Research Methods Cases: Psychology (accepted Sept 2017)

Current PhD supervisions

Example:

Stansfield J., Stoner C., Wenbourne, J Vernooij-Dassen M, Moniz-Cook E & Orrell M (2017) 'Positive Psychology Outcome measures for family caregivers of people living with dementia: a systematic review', International Psychogeriatrics, 29(8), 1281 -1296

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