Eating, drinking and swallowing (EDS) difficulty is common in dementia and earlier identification could reduce morbidity, mortality, healthcare costs and improve quality of care. A proactive and condition-specific strategy for identifying EDS difficulty at an early stage for people living with dementia has yet to be developed. Before this can be achieved, holistic person-centred early indicators of EDS difficulty in early-stage dementia are needed and more understanding of barriers to early identification is required.
This edition of DRNI's Researcher in Focus is Dr Andrea Kwakowsky, neuroscientist
at the School of Medicine at the University of Galway.
DRNI EARLY CAREER RESEARCHER DAY
10 OCTOBER, ST JAMES’S HOSPITAL, DUBLIN
Are you an Early Career Researcher in the area of dementia? Do you want to present your research to peers and experts?
The Researcher in Focus of this edition of DRNI CONNECT is
Dr Sarah Nicolas, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department
of Anatomy and Neuroscience at University College Cork.
Sarah took time out of her busy schedule to speak to us and
DRNI are thrilled to announce our next series of events,
Brain Health & Dementia.
Starting November 15th at 11 am, this webinar series will look at brain health and dementia in relation to a number of factors: