糖心原创

Contact

• workRoom B floor open office Institute of Mental Health
  Innovation Park
  Triumph Road
  Nottingham
  NG7 2TU
  UK
• Esther.Loseto-Gerritzen1@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Esther Loseto-Gerritzen (PhD) is a research fellow at the Institute of Mental Health. She has a BSc in European Public Health and a MSc in Health Education and Promotion from Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Esther completed her PhD at the 糖心原创 as part of , a European Union funded Marie Sk艂odowska-Curie Innovative Training Network focusing on dementia, social health and technology.

Esther's research focuses on post-diagnostic support for people with Young Onset Dementia (onset before the age of 65). The Social Health framework is the foundation throughout Esther's research. During her PhD she developed a Best Practice Guidance on online peer support for people with Young Onset Dementia. Esther is interested in psychosocial support and interventions for people with Young Onset Dementia and their families, and how technology can play a role in this.

Esther is also an active member of Academy and is one of the two first Junior Representatives in the INTERDEM Board. In this role Esther is co-leading an INTERDEM-wide webinar series and is working hard to involve more early-career researchers in INTERDEM Academy. Within INTERDEM, Esther is also co-lead of the Young Onset Dementia taskforce. Outside of INTERDEM, Esther is leading a Young Onset Dementia Special Interest Group as part of , a NIHR and Alzheimer's Society funded program on building capacity in dementia research.

Teaching Summary

Lecturing

• MSc Mental Health Research - Dementia module
• BSc Health Promotion and Public Health

Marking

• MSc Mental Health Research - Dementia module

Supervising

• BMedSci third year dissertation project

Research Summary

NIHR ARC-EM / Alzheimer's Society (2023 - current) Dem-Comm Programme Building Capacity in Dementia Research. Focussing on postdiagnostic support for people with Young Onset Dementia.

Selected Publications

• GERRITZEN, E.V., ORRELL, M. and MCDERMOTT, O., 2024. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: Special Issue Innovations in Care and Support for People Living with Young Onset or Rarer Forms of Dementia. 21(1),
• GERRITZEN, E.V., MCDERMOTT, O. and ORRELL, M., 2023. Aging & Mental Health. 27(12), 2386-2394
• HARDING, E., ROSSI-HARRIES, S., GERRITZEN, E.V., ZIMMERMAN, N., HOARE, Z., PROCTOR, D., BROTHERHOOD, E., CRUTCH, S. and SU脕REZ-GONZ脕LEZ, A., 2023. BMC Geriatrics. 23(1),
• STEVENS-NECK, R., WALTON, J., ALTERKAWI, S., BROTHERHOOD, E.V., CAMIC, P.M., CRUTCH, S.J., GERRITZEN, E.V., HARDING, E., MCKEE-JACKSON, R., ROSSI-HARRIES, S., STREET, R.E., VAN DER BYL WILLIAMS, M., WADDINGTON, C., WOOD, O. and MOORE, K.J., 2023. International Psychogeriatrics. 2(1),

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Past Research

Marie Sk艂odowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (2019-2023) DISTINCT early career researcher, PhD conducted as part of this programme. Topic: online peer support for people with Young Onset Dementia.

• GERRITZEN, E.V., ORRELL, M. and MCDERMOTT, O., 2024. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: Special Issue Innovations in Care and Support for People Living with Young Onset or Rarer Forms of Dementia. 21(1),
• GERRITZEN, E.V., ORRELL, M. and MCDERMOTT, O., 2024. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: Special Issue Innovations in Care and Support for People Living with Young Onset or Rarer Forms of Dementia. 21(1),
• GERRITZEN, E.V., KOHL, G., ORRELL, M. and MCDERMOTT, O., 2023. Dementia. 22(1), 218-234
• STEVENS-NECK, R., WALTON, J., ALTERKAWI, S., BROTHERHOOD, E.V., CAMIC, P.M., CRUTCH, S.J., GERRITZEN, E.V., HARDING, E., MCKEE-JACKSON, R., ROSSI-HARRIES, S., STREET, R.E., VAN DER BYL WILLIAMS, M., WADDINGTON, C., WOOD, O. and MOORE, K.J., 2023. International Psychogeriatrics. 2(1),
• HARDING, E., ROSSI-HARRIES, S., GERRITZEN, E.V., ZIMMERMAN, N., HOARE, Z., PROCTOR, D., BROTHERHOOD, E., CRUTCH, S. and SU脕REZ-GONZ脕LEZ, A., 2023. BMC Geriatrics. 23(1),
• GERRITZEN, E.V., MCDERMOTT, O. and ORRELL, M., 2023. Aging & Mental Health. 27(12), 2386-2394
• GERRITZEN, E., LEE, A., MCDERMOTT, O., COULSON, N.S. and ORRELL, M., 2022. International Journal of MS Care. 24(6), 252-259
• GERRITZEN, E.V., MCDERMOTT, O. and ORREL, M., 2022. JMIR Research Protocols. 11(7),
• GERRITZEN, E.V., LEE, A.R., MCDERMOTT, O., COULSON, N. and ORRELL, M., 2022. JMIR Aging. 5(3),
• GERRITZEN, E.V., MCDERMOTT, O. and ORRELL, M., 2022. JMIR Research Protocols. 11(7),
• LEE AR, GERRITZEN EV, MCDERMOTT O, ORRELL M, GERRITZEN EV and MCDERMOTT O, 2021. J Med Internet Res. 23(7), e26551
• GERRITZEN, E.V., HULL, M.J., VERBEEK, H., SMITH, A.E. and DE BOER, B., 2020. Journal of Intergenerational Relationships. 18(2), 214-245