Professor Esme Moniz-Cook

Professor Esme Moniz-Cook

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

Building an initial understanding of UK Recovery College dementia courses: A national survey of Recovery College and memory services staff.

Wolverson, E., Hague, L., West, J., Teague, B., Fox, C., Birt, L., …Moniz-Cook, E. (in press). Building an initial understanding of UK Recovery College dementia courses: A national survey of Recovery College and memory services staff. Working with Older People, https://doi.org/10.1108/WWOP-02-2023-0003

Community Occupational Therapy in Dementia intervention for people with mild to moderate dementia and their family carers in the UK: the VALID research programme including RCT

Wenborn, J., Mountain, G., Moniz-Cook, E., Poland, F., King, M., Omar, R., …Orrell, M. (2023). Community Occupational Therapy in Dementia intervention for people with mild to moderate dementia and their family carers in the UK: the VALID research programme including RCT. Programme Grants for Applied Research, 11(5), vii-76. https://doi.org/10.3310/RGTJ7429

The memory clinic and psychosocial intervention: Translating past promise into current practices

Moniz-Cook, E., & Mountain, G. (2023). The memory clinic and psychosocial intervention: Translating past promise into current practices. Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences, 4, Article 1052244. https://doi.org/10.3389/fresc.2023.1052244

The dynamic nature of being a person': an ethnographic study of people living with dementia in their communities

Moniz-Cook, E., Birt, L., Charlesworth, G., Leung, P., Higgs, P., Orrell, M., & Poland, F. (2023). The dynamic nature of being a person’: an ethnographic study of people living with dementia in their communities. Gerontologist, 63(8), 1320-1329. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnad022

A Web-Based Self-management App for Living Well With Dementia: User-Centered Development Study

Lee, A. R., Csipke, E., Yates, L., Moniz-Cook, E., McDermott, O., Taylor, S., …Orrell, M. (2023). A Web-Based Self-management App for Living Well With Dementia: User-Centered Development Study. JMIR Human Factors, 10, Article e40785. https://doi.org/10.2196/40785

Lead investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

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

Funder

NIHR National Institute for Health Research

Grant

£26,355.00

Started

1 January 2022

Status

Ongoing

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

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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