Professor Linda Clare
Professor of Clinical Psychology of Ageing and Dementia and PenARC Dementia Theme Lead
Expertise
Ageing, cognitive health and dementia
Biography
Linda directs the Centre for Research in Ageing and Cognitive Health (REACH), which is a joint venture between the University of Exeter’s Medical School and Department of Psychology, and PenARC. Linda is also the Theme Lead for the PenARC Dementia theme. Her research aims to improve the lives of older people and people who are living with dementia or other age-related neurodegenerative conditions by promoting well-being, preventing or reducing age-related disability, and improving rehabilitation and care. Linda joined the University of Exeter in 2015. She leads both large observational studies and intervention trials, and is particularly known for pioneering the application of cognitive rehabilitation approaches for people with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease. Linda gained her PhD while working at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, and her ScD was awarded in recognition of her work on awareness in people with dementia. In 2004 she received the May Davidson award from the British Psychological Society for her contribution to the development of clinical psychology in the UK. She is a Chartered Psychologist registered as a practitioner with the Health and Care Professions Council, and is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Academy of Social Sciences and the Gerontological Society of America, chairs the British Psychological Society Advisory Group on Dementia, and serves on the Governing Board of the Global Council on Brain Health.
Projects
- GREAT (Goal-oriented cognitive Rehabilitation in Early-stage Alzheimer’s and related dementias: a multi-centre single-blind randomised controlled Trial) into Practice
- IDEAL: Improving the Experience of Dementia and Enhancing Active Life
- WHELD into Practice: improving Wellbeing and mental HEaLth for care home residents with Dementia and reducing unnecessary sedative medications.
- IDEAL COVID-19 Dementia Initiative
- Caring about Care – Improving the Experience of Care for People with Dementia in Hospital
Publications
- Provision of Outdoor Nature-Based Activity for Older People with Cognitive Impairment: A Scoping Review from the ENLIVEN Project
- The precariousness of living with, and caring for people with, dementia: Insights from the IDEAL programme
- A rehabilitation intervention to improve recovery after an episode of delirium in adults over 65 years (RecoverED): study protocol for a multi-centre, single-arm feasibility study
- New horizons for caring for people with dementia in hospital: the DEMENTIA CARE pointers for service change
- Impact of COVID-19 on carers of people with dementia in the community: Findings from the British IDEAL cohort
- The Use and Costs of Paid and Unpaid Care for People with Dementia: Longitudinal Findings from the IDEAL Cohort
- Methods and approaches for enhancing communication with people with moderate-to-severe dementia that can facilitate their inclusion in research and service evaluation: Findings from the IDEAL programme
- Differences in awareness of positive and negative age-related changes accounting for variability in health outcomes
- Impact of COVID-19 on ‘Living Well’ with Mild-to-Moderate Dementia in the Community: Findings from the IDEAL Cohort
- Psychological Processes in Adapting to Dementia: Illness Representations Among the IDEAL Cohort
- Living with dementia during the COVID-19 pandemic: coping and support needs of community-dwelling people with dementia and their family carers. Research findings from the IDEAL COVID-19 Dementia Initiative (IDEAL-CDI). Older People and Frailty Policy Research Group
- Exploring awareness of age-related changes among over 50s in the UK: findings from the PROTECT study
- Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Associations between Subjective Sleep Difficulties and Self-Perceptions of Aging
- Living with dementia under COVID-19 restrictions: coping and support needs among people with dementia and carers from the IDEAL cohort
- The impact of auditory hallucinations on “living well” with dementia: Findings from the IDEAL programme
- Cross-sectional association between objective cognitive performance and perceived age-related gains and losses in cognition
- REPORT: Living with dementia during the COVID-19 pandemic: coping and support needs of community-dwelling people with dementia and their family carers. Research findings from the IDEAL COVID-19 Dementia Initiative (IDEAL-CDI)
- Relationship between self-perceptions of aging and ‘living well’ among people with mild-to-moderate dementia: Findings from the IDEAL Programme.
- Understanding and improving experiences of care in hospital for people living with dementia, their carers and staff: three systematic reviews
- The cross-sectional relationship between pain and awareness of age-related changes.
- International relevance of Two Measures of Awareness of Age-Related Change (AARC).
- The experiences of hospital staff who provide care for people living with dementia: A systematic review and synthesis of qualitative studies
- Activity interventions to improve the experience of care in hospital for people living with dementia: a systematic review
- Health Publics: enabling cultures and environments for health.
- Core Outcome Measures for interventions to prevent or slow the progress of dementia for people living with mild to moderate dementia: systematic review and consensus recommendations
- Development of a core outcome set for disease modification trials in mild to moderate dementia: a systematic review, patient and public consultation and consensus recommendations
- Potentially modifiable lifestyle factors, cognitive reserve, and cognitive function in later life: A cross-sectional study