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.
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