CHeBA Visiting Lecture Series presents Dr Clarissa Giebel of the University of Liverpool, for her talk:
The Long-term Impacts of the Pandemic on the Mental Health of Carers of People with Living Dementia
Dr Giebel will share some of the findings from her UK-based research into how the pandemic has affected unpaid carers whose relatives reside at home or in care homes, and how these findings confirm global research as synthesised in a recent systematic review. Having spoken to paid and unpaid carers in the care home sector, her study found severe emotional and mental wellbeing impacts as a result of the pandemic restrictions. The recent international systematic review, with included studies from 18 countries, further expands on these emotional impacts on carers. These findings underpin a currently funded study into the unmet mental health needs of paid and unpaid dementia carers, with the aim of developing targeted interventions.
The presentation will be followed by a live Q&A session with Dr Giebel.
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Clarissa Giebel is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool, and her research is exploring inequalities in dementia care and ageing, and how these inequalities can be overcome. She is leading on national and international research in the field, including from the Alzheimer's Society, ESRC, and NIHR, and works with different international collaborators from Colombia, the Netherlands, Australia, and Uganda. She is the host and organiser of the public-facing Liverpool Dementia & Ageing Research Forum, and runs her own science podcast The Ageing Scientist.
