Prof Gill Livingston
Professor of Psychiatry of Older People
Division of Psychiatry
Faculty of Brain Sciences
- Joined UCL
- 22nd Dec 2017
Research summary
I lead the Lancet standing committee on dementia prevention, intervention and care
START intervention
Prevention of dementia
Caregivers of people with dementia-prevalence of psychological ill health, determinants, interventions, coping strategies
End of life and dementia
Agitation and other neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia
Ethnic elders -prevalence of mental health problems,access to services
Neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia- prevalence and management
Elder abuse in dementia- prevalence, detection, determinants, management, views of elder abuse.
Quality of life in dementia -psychometrics and determinants
Depression in dementia- prevalence, covariates and management
THE LASER-AD study: The course and determinants of Alzheimer's Disease- vascular risk, succesful ageing; anxiety, depression and coping for carers, effect of antipsychotics in AD; neuropsychiatric symptoms-prevalence and natural history; depression and exercise in AD, quality of life in AD.
Successful ageing in cognitive adversity
Incapacity and carers making choices in dementia
Teaching summary
I am chair of the board of examiners for MScs in the Division of Psychiatry. iser for year 2 of the MSc in psychiatric research.
I teach on the MSc courses
I supervise masters projects and PhDs.
I supervise post doctoral fellows
I am a member of the undergraduate education committee
Education
- To be updated
- Not known, Incomplete CV |
- University of Glasgow
- Doctorate, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery | 1981