Project overview
Aims
• Develop our community links to include brain
health, hearing and dementia outreach.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of community engagement in:
1. raisingawareness,buildingknowledge,and informing behaviour change around brain health,
2. encouraging participation in research.
Objectives
• Engage with members of the community, in their
spaces, to understand their experiences/knowledge
of brain health.
• Raise awareness, in underserved communities, of
the links between brain health, hearing and dementia.
• Use qualitative and quantitative methods to measure changes in knowledge and behaviour e.g., accessing health services related to brain health; effective use of hearing aids; seeking hearing or memory assessments.
• Measure the change in participation of people from underserved communities in research.
Funding from Alzheimer's Research UK Pump Priming Grant June 2023
Staff
Lead researcher
