Temporal Relationship Between Depressive Symptoms and Cognition in Mid and Late Life: A Longitudinal Cohort Study.

Objectives: To examine the bidirectional temporal relationship between depressive symptoms and cognition in relation to risk, reaction, and prodrome.

Design: Cross-lag analysis of longitudinal data collected online at baseline and 12-month follow-up.

Setting And Participants: A United Kingdom population cohort of 11,855 participants aged 50 years and over.

Involving service users in the development of the Support at Home: Interventions to Enhance Life in Dementia Carer Supporter Programme for family carers of people with dementia.

Background: Involving service users in research can be an effective way of improving the practicalities and acceptability of interventions for target end users.

Objectives: The current paper presented two consensus methods, not commonly used in consultation with service users, to develop a peer support intervention for family carers of people with dementia (SHIELD Carer Supporter Programme).

Design: Study 1 was a modified Delphi process combined with a consensus conference to explore details of the intervention from the carer and volunteer perspective.