Yvonne Birks

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Professor of Applied Social Care Research

University of York

United Kingdom

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Yvonne Birks is a Professor of Applied Social Care Research at the University of York, UK. Her research focuses on the social environment impacting individuals living with dementia and their caregivers, particularly in the context of COVID-19. She has also investigated decision-making aids for older adults funding their own social care, as well as strategies for preventing pressure ulcers in long-term neurological conditions. Additionally, her work emphasizes the use of digital technologies to enhance social inclusion for dementia caregivers.

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Adult social care partnership: Using co-production methods to build and evaluate a regional capacity building network to facilitate greater understanding use and production of research in adult social care.

Open Date: 2021-06-01

Close Date: 2025-05-31

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DETERMIND-C19: Impact of COVID-19 on people newly diagnosed with dementia and their family carers, a mixed method study nested in DETERMIND

Open Date: 2020-06-29

Close Date: 2021-06-28

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NPIF DTP IAA ABC (2020): York

Open Date: 2020-02-13

Close Date: 2021-09-11

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Supporting adult social care innovation (SASCI)

Open Date: 2019-08-31

Close Date: 2024-09-14

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Impact Acceleration Account 2019: York

Open Date: 2019-03-31

Close Date: 2023-03-30

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The Importance of the Social Environment for People Living With Dementia and Their Carers: Qualitative Evidence From DETERMIND and PriDem on the Impact of COVID-19 Service Changes and Restrictions in England and Wales

Developing a Decision Aid for Older People Who Pay for Social Care

Dementia training for healthcare professionals: A systematic policy and evidence review

The role of uncertainty in planning for self-funded social care for older people with a diagnosis of dementia

Understanding and using experiences of social care to guide service improvements: translating a co-design approach from health to social care

Pressure ulcer prevention for people with long-term neurological conditions (LTNCs) who self-manage care and live at home

Standardised data collection from people with dementia over the telephone: A qualitative study of the experience of DETERMIND programme researchers in a pandemic

Emotion-focused dyadic coping styles used by family carers of people with dementia during the COVID-19 pandemic

Using digital technologies to facilitate social inclusion during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Experiences of co‐resident and non‐co‐resident family carers of people with dementia from DETERMIND‐C19

Social care causes of delayed transfer of care (<scp>DTOC</scp>) from hospital for older people: Unpicking the nuances of ‘provider capacity’ and ‘patient choice’

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Sara Ryan

Carmen Colclough

Dawn Dowding

Sube Banerjee

Mark Wilberforce

Angela Martin

Karen Jones

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