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Professor Arlene Astell

Biography of Professor Arlene Astell, a researcher in CATCH at the University of Sheffield.

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Professor Arlene Astell

Biography

Arlene is a Professor of Health Services Research at the University of Sheffield, UK, and Honorary Professor in the School of Psychology & Neuroscience at the University of St. Andrews, where she worked from 2001 until joining CATCH in 2013. She is also Ontario Shores Research Chair in Community Management of Dementia and Associate Professor in the School of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.

For over 20 years Arlene has worked with older adults in both clinical and research settings to develop novel interventions to enable people to live and age as well as possible. Her work includes the creative application of technology and she has a particular interest in supporting people to live well with a dementia diagnosis.

Research Expertise

  • Creative applications of technology to support ageing and healthy living
  • Interventions to support cognitive function and mental health
  • Support for people with dementia
Professor Arlene Astell

Professor of Health Services Research

Centre for Assistive Technology and Connected Healthcare (CATCH)

School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR)

The University of Sheffield

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Telephone:
+44 (0) 114 222 0867

Email: a.astell@sheffield.ac.uk

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AcTo Dementia is a resource for people who are looking for support in identifying touchscreen activities for people living with dementia. The website contains reviews of apps that have been selected as potentially suitable for people with dementia, information on how to use touchscreen tablets in this context and a guide for users to access so that they can identify suitable apps themselves. It also contains news and publications from our specialist research group comprising researchers from the University of Sheffield in the UK and the University of Toronto in Canada.

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