Staff profile: Laura Cole
Position: Research Associate, Long Term Conditions
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8725 3867
Email: laura.cole@sgul.kingston.ac.uk
Biography
Laura has a psychology background, having obtained a BSc in Psychology and MSc in Health Psychology. She is currently studying for her MPhil/PhD.
In her present role as Research Associate Laura works alongside Professor Vari Drennan on EVIDEM-C, a study which aims to investigate continence management in people with dementia who live at home with their carers (for further details visit EVIDEM
).
Previous experience of working with older people with mental health problems include roles as care assistant in care homes, research psychologist in a memory clinic, and care manager in older people’s social services.
Prior to joining the Faculty, Laura held a research post at the Institute of Psychiatry investigating patients’ satisfaction with admission processes and experience of acute care.
Interests
Dementia care; older people; adult mental health; care relationships; service user perspectives and experiences.
Publications
Article
Cole, Laura (2011) Book Review of: 'When a family member has dementia: steps to becoming a resilient caregiver', by Susan M. McCurry. Dementia, 10(2), p. 272. ISSN (print) 1471-3012
Drennan, Vari M, Cole, Laura and Iliffe, Steve (2011) A taboo within a stigma? A qualitative study of managing incontinence with people with dementia living at home. BMC Geriatrics, 11(1), p. 75. ISSN (online) 1471-2318
Manthorpe, J., Iliffe, S., Samsi, K., Cole, L., Goodman, C., Drennan, V. and Warner, J. (2010) Dementia, dignity and quality of life: nursing practice and its dilemmas. International Journal of Older People Nursing, 5(3), pp. 235-244. ISSN (print) 1748-3735
Howard, L, Flach, C, Leese, M, Byford, S, Killaspy, H, Cole, L, Lawlor, C, Betts, J, Sharac, J, Cutting, P, McNicholas, S and Johnson, S (2010) Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of admissions to women's crisis houses compared with traditional psychiatric wards: pilot patient-preference randomised controlled trial. British Journal of Psychiatry, 197(s53), s32-s40. ISSN (print) 0007-1250
Lawlor, Caroline, Johnson, Sonia, Cole , Laura and Howard, Louise M. (2010) Ethnic variations in pathways to acute care and compulsory detention for women experiencing a mental health crisis. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, pp. 1-13. ISSN (print) 0020-7640
Drennan, Vari and Cole, Laura (2009) Dealing with incontinence. Living with dementia, December/January(2009/2010), pp. 14-15.
Howard, Louise, Leese, Morven, Byford, Sarah, Killaspy, Helen, Cole, Laura, Lawlor, Caroline and Johnson, Sonia (2009) Methodological challenges in evaluating the effectiveness of women's crisis houses compared with psychiatric wards; findings from a pilot patient preference RCT. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 197(10), pp. 722-777. ISSN (print) 0022-3018
Drennan, Vari and Cole, Laura (2009) Promoting continence and managing incontinence with people with dementia living at home: one more challenge for integration. Journal of Integrated Care, 17(1), pp. 15-25. ISSN (print) 1476-9018
Howard, Louise M., Rigon, Elena, Cole, Laura, Lawlor, Caroline and Johnson, Sonia (2008) Admission to women's crisis houses or to psychiatric wards: women's pathways to admission. Psychiatric Services, 59(12), pp. 1443-1449. ISSN (print) 1075-2730