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Location Wolverhampton
Name of Centre Wolverhampton University School of Health – DementiaPlus
Website www.dementiaplus.org.uk
Head of Centre

Prof David Jolley (Director of Dementiaplus)

Other academic staff

Kate Reed
Prof Susan Benbow
Prof Paul Kingston
Dr Tony Elliott

Research interests

Services for older people with mental health problems

Training for staff of all sorts in the identification, treatment and care of older people with mental health problems. Ethnicity and mental health
‘Graduate’ chronic psychotics, liaison psychiatry and older people
Spirituality in late life and mental health
Elder Abuse
Institutional Care
Early onset dementia

Other information Dementiaplus is the Dementia Services Development Centre for the West Midlands and broadens its activities to include all mental health of late life. We have strong links with Wolverhampton University and Staffordshire University . WE run a Masters in Ageing and Mental Health and contribute to a new Masters programme to train people for the Physician Assistant role in the NHS (Masters in Specialist Healthcare Practice)

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