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Dementia in Younger Ages Mapping Ideal Care (DYNAMIC)

Social care planning and provision for people with young onset dementia and their families: current practice and resources for improvement.

This project identified key improvements needed in social care for people with young onset dementia (YOD) and their main supporters (family/friends) and produced recommendations and resources to enable these improvements.

Research team

University of Bradford Centre for Applied Dementia Studies

Experts by Experience

  • Julie Hayden

  • Elaine Daniels

University of York: School for Business and Society

  • Kate Gridley, Research Fellow, University of York, NIHR School for Social Care Research

Collaborators

The Young Dementia Network, hosted by Dementia UK, are a collaborator on the DYNAMIC project.

Outputs from this project

Please see below resources produced on the findings from our research in this project:

Supporting social care practice for people with young onset dementia and their families Social Worker Leaflet

Published paper on our findings

Project Output website

How we will share our findings

We will publicise ongoing and final findings using different types of written and spoken communications.

Summaries and resources will be available through the Young Dementia Network website.

We want to convey our recommendations in interesting, accessible ways to people in practice and policy and those living with young onset dementia. If you have ideas about ways to get messages from this research to a wider audience please do get in touch. 

To find out more about the study please contact Helen Young (Research Assistant):
Email: h.young@bradford.ac.uk 
Tel: 07584 368525 

DYNAMIC website

Project Update

Project update about our young onset dementia work

The DYNAMIC study is funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Research for Social Care (RfSC)
Programme through grant NIHR204266. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care.

Joint Leads
Professor Jan Oyebode and Dr Catherine Quinn (University of Bradford)
Duration
From April 2023 until October 2025
NIHR Research for Social Care (RfSC) Programme