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Alushi L, Hartley P, Lafortune L. Exercise and physical activity promotion for people newly diagnosed with Parkinson’s: a UK survey exploring current practice and the views of healthcare professionals . Physiotherapy. March 2024.
Alushi L, Alexander J, Jones J, Lafortune L. A Systematic Review on interventions for people with Parkinson's Disease: Content, impact, and implementation considerations across the Parkinson's trajectory . Journal of Parkinson’s Disease. January 2022.
Kelly S, Cowan A, Akdur G, et al. Outcome measures from international older adult care home intervention research: a scoping review , Age and Ageing , Volume 52, Issue 5, May 2023.
Cherbuin N, Iijima K, Kalula S, Malhotra R, Rasmussen L, Chan A, Lafortune L, Harper S, Zheng X, Lindeman D, Walsh E. Societal need for interdisciplinary ageing research . Biomedicine Hub . January 2021. Lee C, Mellor T, Dilworth-Anderson P, Young T, Brayne C, Lafortune L. Opportunities and challenges in public and community engagement: the connected for cognitive health in later life (CHILL) project. Research Involvement and Engagement. October 2018. Coker J, Martin M, Simpson R, Lafortune L. Frailty: an in depth qualitative study exploring the views of community care staff . BMC Geriatrics . February 2019.
Age and dementia friendly environments
Shevelkova V, Mattocks C, Lafortune L. Efforts to address the Sustainable Development Goals in Older Populations: a Scoping Review . BMC Public Health. March 2023.
Buckner S, Lafortune L, Darlington N, Dickinson A, Killett A, Mathie E, Mayrhofer A, Woodward M, Goodman C. A suite of evaluation resources for Dementia Friendly Communities: development and guidance for use . Dementia . November 2022. Mathie E, Arthur A, Killet A, Darlington N, Buckner S, Lafortune L, Mayrhofer A, Dickinson E, Woodward M, Goodman C. Dementia Friendly communities: the involvement of people living with dementia . Dementia . January 2022. Mayrhofer A, Goodman C, Lafortune L, Smeeton N, Littlechild B, Shora S, Bunn F. Third sector provision of dementia support in the community: results of a scoping exercise of charity involvement in the UK . Voluntary Sector Review . December 2021. Buckner S, Darlington N, Woodward M, Buswell M, Mathie E, Arthur A, Lafortune L, Killett A, Mayrhofer A, Thurman J, Goodman C. Dementia Friendly Communities in England: a scoping study. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry . April 2019. Lee C, Parker G, Buckner S, Mattocks C, Barnes A, Jordan H, Oliver E, Cowan A, Lafortune L. Neighbourhood planning, rural ageing and public health policy in England . Town Planning Review . May 2022. Buckner S, Mattocks C, Rimmer M, Lafortune L. An evaluation tool for age-friendly and dementia friendly communities . Working with Older People. January 2018. Buckner S, Pope D, Mattocks C, Lafortune L, Dherani M, Bruce N. Developing age-friendly cities: an evidence-based evaluation tool . Journal of Population Ageing . October 2017.
Healthy ageing
Mental health in older adults
Newman L, Desai R, Lafortune L, Gaskell A, Duschinsky R. Working with social Isolation and loneliness in older people’s mental health services. FPOP Bulletin . 2024.
Duncan F, Baskin C, McGrath M, J Coker, Lee C, Dykxhoorn J, Adams EA, Gnani S, Lafortune L, Kirkbride JB, Kaner E, Jones O, Samuel G, Walters K, Osborn D, Oliver EJ on behalf of the School for Public Health Research Public Mental Health Programme. Community interventions for improving adult mental health: mapping local policy and practice in England . BMC Public Health Lee C, Kuhn I, McGrath M, Remes O, Cowan A, Duncan F, Baskin C, Oliver EJ, Osborn DP, Dykxhoorn J, Kaner E, Walters K, Kirkbride J, Gnani S, Lafortune L. A systematic scoping review of community-based interventions for the prevention and promotion of mental health in older adults in the UK. Health and Social Care in the Community . May 2021. Zijlstra G, Baskin C, McGrath M, Lee C, Duncan F, Oliver EJ, Osborn D, Dykxhoorn J, Kaner E, Lafortune L, Walters K, Kirkbride J, Gnani S. Community-centred interventions for improving public mental health among adults from minority ethnic populations in the United Kingdom: a scoping review. BMJ Open . April 2021. Remes O, Lafortune L, Wainwright N, Surtees P, Khaw KT, Brayne C. Association between area deprivation and major depressive disorder in British men and women: a cohort study . BMJ Open. November 2019. Remes O, Wainwright N, Surtees P, Lafortune L, Khaw K-T, Brayne C. Generalized anxiety disorder and hospital admissions: findings from a large, population cohort study. BMJ Open . October 2018. Kelly S, Olanrewaju O, Cowan A, Brayne C, Lafortune L. Alcohol and older people: a systematic review of barriers, facilitators and context of drinking in older people and implications for intervention design . PLOS One . January 2018.
Life Course and ageing
Walsh S, Wallace L, Kuhn I, Mytton O, Lafortune L, Wills W, Mukadam N, Brayne C. Are population-level approaches to dementia risk reduction under-researched? A rapid review of the dementia prevention literature . The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease . January 2024.
Walsh S, Wallace L, Mukadam N, Mytton O, Lafortune L, Wills W, Brayne C. What is a population-level approach to prevention, and how could we apply it to dementia risk reduction? Public Health . December 2023.
Lafortune L, Brayne C. Dementia prevention — a call for contextualized evidence . Nature Neurology Reviews . September 2017. Lafortune L, Martin S, Kelly S. Midlife approaches to prevention of ill health in later life . JAMA Internal Medicine . February 2017. Lafortune L, Martin S, Kelly S, Kuhn I, Remes O, Cowan A, Brayne C. Behavioural risk factors in mid-life associated with successful ageing, disability, dementia and frailty in later life: a rapid systematic review . PLOS One . February 2016.
Public health
