Staff Profiles

Katie is Professor of Applied Health Research & Ageing in the Population Health Sciences Institute. Katie is a social gerontologist with an educational background in sociology. This has enabled her to pursue her research interests in the social impact that illness can have on the lives of older people. During her time as an applied health researcher Katie has researched and published widely around the impact of ill health on older people and their carers. More recently her work has focused around how aspects of the physical, social and technological environment pose challenges and opportunities for older people and their wider community.

• Articles

  • Scott J, Brittain K, Byrnes K, Dawson P, Mulrine S, Spencer M, Waring J, Young-Murphy L. Residents transitioning between hospital and care homes: protocol for codesigning a systems-level response to safety issues (SafeST study). BMJ Open 2022, 12, e050665.
  • Brittain K, Degnen C. Living the everyday of dementia friendliness: navigating care in public spaces. Sociology of Health & Illness 2022, 44(2), 416-431.
  • Davies LE, Brittain K, Wilkinson H, Lewis S, Robinson L, Kingston A. Describing transitions in residential status over 10 years in the very old: results from the Newcastle 85+ Study. Age and Ageing 2022, 51(3), afac056.
  • Stocker R, Brittain K, Spilsbury K, Hanratty B. Patient and public involvement in care home research: Reflections on the how and why of involving patient and public involvement partners in qualitative data analysis and interpretation. Health Expectations 2021, 24(4), 1349-1356.
  • Standing H, Patterson R, Lee M, Dalkin S, Lhussier M, Exley C, Brittain K. Information sharing challenges in end-of-life care: a qualitative study of patient, family and professional perspectives on the potential of an Electronic Palliative Care Co-ordination System. BMJ Open 2020, 10(10), e037483.
  • Standing H, Patterson R, Dalkin S, Exley C, Brittain K. A critical exploration of professional jurisdictions and role boundaries in inter-professional end-of-life care in the community. Social Science and Medicine 2020, 266, 113300.
  • Gibson G, Dickinson C, Brittain K, Robinson L. Personalisation, customisation and bricolage: how people with dementia and their families make assistive technology work for them. Ageing and Society 2019, 39(11), 2502-2519.
  • Patterson R, Standing H, Lee M, Dalkin S, Lhussier M, Exley C, Brittain K. Paramedic information needs in end-of-life-care: a qualitative interview study exploring access to shared electronic records as a potential solution. BMC Palliative Care 2019, 18, 108.
  • Maniatopoulos G, Hopkins C, Joyce TJ, Brittain K. Framing the failure of medical implants: Media representations of the ASR hip replacements in the UK. Health Expectations 2019, 22(3), 518-527.
  • Lavrencic LM, Richardson C, Harrison SL, Muniz-Terrera G, Keage HAD, Brittain K, Kirkwood TBL, Jagger C, Robinson L, Stephan BCM. Is There a Link between Cognitive Reserve and Cognitive Function in the Oldest-Old?. Journals of Gerontology: Series A 2018, 73(4), 499-505.
  • Lawson RA, Collerton D, Taylor JP, Burn DJ, Brittain KR. Coping with cognitive impairment and Parkinson’s disease: perspectives from patients and carers. Parkinson's Disease 2018, 2018, 1362053.
  • Stocker R, Bamford C, Brittain K, Duncan R, Moffatt S, Robinson L, Hanratty B. Care home services at the vanguard: stakeholder views on the development and evaluation of novel, integrated approaches to enhancing health care in care homes. BMJ Open 2018, 8, e017419.
  • Brittain K, Degnen C, Gibson G, Dickinson C, Robinson AL. When walking becomes wandering: representing the fear of the fourth age. Sociology of Health and Illness 2017, 39(2), 270-284.
  • Wiblin L, Durcan R, Lee M, Brittain K. The Importance of Connection to Others in QoL in MSA and PSP. Parkinson's Disease 2017, 2017, 5283259.
  • Brittain KR, Kingston A, Davies K, Collerton J, Robinson AL, Kirkwood T, Bond J, Jagger C. An investigation into the patterns of loneliness and loss in the oldest old – Newcastle 85+ Study. Ageing and Society 2017, 37(1), 39-62.
  • Robinson L, Brittain KR, Lindsay S, Jackson D, Olivier P. Keeping In Touch Everyday (KITE) project: developing assistive technologies with people with dementia and their carers to promote independence. International Psychogeriatrics 2009, 21(3), 494-502.
  • Brittain KR, Shaw C. The social consequences of living with and dealing with incontinence-A carers perspective. Social Science and Medicine 2007, 65(6), 1274-1283.
  • Robinson L, Hutchings D, Corner L, Finch T, Hughes J, Brittain K, Bond J. Balancing rights and risks: Conflicting perspectives in the management of wandering in dementia. Health, Risk and Society 2007, 9(4), 389-406.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)

  • Morrissey K, Garbett A, Wright P, Olivier P, Jenkins EI, Brittain K. Care and Connect: Exploring Dementia-Friendliness Through an Online Community Commissioning Platform. In: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2017, Denver, Colorado, USA: ACM.

• Review

  • Rutjes AWS, Denton DA, Di Nisio M, Chong L-Y, Abraham RP, Al-Assaf AS, Anderson JL, Malik MA, Vernooij RWM, Martinez G, Tabet N, Mccleery J. Vitamin and mineral supplementation for maintaining cognitive function in cognitively healthy people in mid and late life. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2018, 2018(12), CD011906.