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Dr Alessandro Bosco

NIHR/ARC Dem Comm Research Fellow
E: A.Bosco@bsms.ac.uk

Area of expertise: Old age, dementia

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Biography

Alessandro holds a Ph.D. in Mental Health & Wellbeing obtained at the University of Nottingham, an MSc in Mental Health Studies from King’s College, London. He secured funding from the ESRC (£3,750) to train in international health policy at the World Health Organisation in Geneva. While working in the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Alessandro was involved in the work streams of the Quality-Rights initiative, which covered areas around building capacity to understand and promote human rights and recovery and improving the quality of care and human rights conditions in secondary mental health services for adults worldwide. His contribution to the Quality Rights initiative helped explore examples of community-based and recovery-oriented services respecting the human rights of patients. As part of his research post at UCL, Alessandro trained in QGIS and spatial analysis at the University of Oxford to report geographically the funding distribution of household support funding scheme across local authorities and by index of income deprivation. At BSMS, Alessandro is looking at service utilisation post A&E admission in people with dementia and the experience of delivering emergency crisis care in dementia through the perspective of healthcare professionals working in emergency services.

Research

His research interests focus on behaviour change and risk factors for dementia prevention. In his past work, Alessandro has focused on physical exercise for disease prevention and published a Cochrane review on population-based interventions on falls prevention. He is currently exploring emergency care pathway and crisis care provision in dementia in view of optimising crisis care and reducing avoidable hospitalisation and mortality.

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Teaching

Dementia research, mixed methods, systematic review, co-production in research.

Publications

Bosco A, Schneider J, Coleston-Shields DM, Higgs P, Orrell M. The social construction of dementia: Systematic review and metacognitive model of enculturation. Maturitas. 2019 Feb 1;120:12-22.

Lewis SR, McGarrigle L, Pritchard MW, Bosco A, Yang Y, Gluchowski A, Sremanakova J, Boulton ER, Gittins M, Spinks A, Rapp K. Population‐based interventions for preventing falls and fall‐related injuries in older people. Cochrane database of systematic reviews. 2024.

Bosco A, McGarrigle L, Skelton DA, Laventure RME, Townley B, & Todd C. (2022). Make Movement Your Mission: Evaluation of an online digital health initiative to increase physical activity in older people during the COVID-19 pandemic. Digital health. 2022, 8, 20552076221084468. - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20552076221084468

Bosco A, Schneider J, Broome E. The social value of the arts for care home residents in England: a social return on investment (SROI) analysis of the imagine arts programme. Maturitas. 2019 Jun 1;124:15-24.

Bosco A, Paulauskaite L, Hall I, Crabtree J, Soni S, Biswas A, Cooper V, Poppe M, King M, Strydom A, Crawford MJ. Process evaluation of a randomised controlled trial of PBS-based staff training for challenging behaviour in adults with intellectual disability. PloS one. 2019 Aug 22;14(8):e0221507.

Bosco A, Jones KA, Di Lorito C, Stephan BC, Orrell M, Oliveira D. Changing lifestyle for dementia risk reduction: Inductive content analysis of a national UK survey. Plos one. 2020 May 15;15(5):e0233039

Stephan B, Tang EY, Pakpahan E, Biswas B, Gupta A, McGrattan A, Bosco A, Richardson CD, Robinson L, Siervo M. Secular Trends in Dementia Free Cognitive Function in Older Adults: A Systematic Review. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. (Preprint):1-2.

Bosco A, Schneider J, Coleston-Shields DM, Orrell M. Narrative inquiry on case studies of crisis in dementia. Quality in Ageing and Older Adults. 2020 Nov; 9:181-191. https://doi.org/10.1108/QAOA-02-2020-0002

Di Lorito C, Bosco A, Birt L, Hassiotis A. Co‐research with adults with intellectual disability: A systematic review. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities. 2018 Sep;31(5):669-86.

Di Lorito C, Godfrey M, Dunlop M, Bosco A, Pollock K, van der Wardt V, Harwood RH. Adding to the knowledge on patient and public involvement: reflections from an experience of co‐research with carers of people with dementia. Health Expectations. 2020 Jun;23(3):691-706.

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