• Scottish Addiction Studies
• Dementia Services Development Centre

Louise McCabe is a Lecturer in Dementia Studies in the Dementia Services Development Centre, Department of Applied Social Science.  Louise has extensive research and practice experience in the field of dementia care.  Her research interests focus on people with dementia and associated policy and practice issues.  To date work has included research on social policy for older people and people with dementia in the UK and India; day care for people with dementia; policy and service issues for people with alcohol related dementia; comparative studies of services; and frontline health and social care staff.  Louise's core interests are culture and dementia; improving services for people for dementia; people with alcohol related dementia and frontline health and social care staff.  A further interest is the prevention and management of dementia and how lifestyle choices around health, exercise and alcohol use can influence the development and progression of dementia.  Louise is the programme director for the online CPD programmes in Dementia Studies at postgradaute and undergraduate levels and teaches on a wide range of modules within all the Dementia Studies programmes.

• Knowledge transfer
• Older people with alcohol problems and people with alcohol related brain damage
• Policy and practice for people with dementia
• Cross national research
• Cogntive and physical exercise for people with dementia
• Dementia in less developed countries

• Dementia and Social Gerontology
• Scottish Addiction Studies

• DEM9D1-Developing a Person Centred Approach to the Support & Care of People with Dementia (Co-ordinator)
• DEMP02-Design, Technology and Care (Co-ordinator)
• DEMP05-Neglected Issues in Dementia Care – Younger Onset Dementia, Learning Disabilities and Alcohol (Co-ordinator)
• DEMP06-Experiences of the Carers of People with Dementia (Co-ordinator)

Books

• Innes, A. and McCabe, L. (Editors) (2006) Evaluation in Dementia Care, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Journal Papers

• McCabe, L (2011 in press) Alcohol, ageing and dementia, a Scottish perspective. Dementia, International Journal of Research and Practice

• McCabe, L (2008) A holistic approach to caring for people with Alzheimer’s disease Nursing Standard, 22(42): 50-56

• McCabe, L. (2007) “Alcohol in care homes: what rules to play by” Journal of Dementia Care, Jan/Feb: 34-37

• McCabe, L. (2007) “Translating policy and practice: developing day care for people with dementia in Kerala, India.” Global Social Policy 7(2): 203-221

• McCabe, L. (2006). “The political and cultural context of the lives of people with dementia in Kerala, India” Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice 5(1): 117-136

• McCabe, L. and Sim, D. (2006) “Working in a ‘dementia friendly’ office: Stirling University’s Iris Murdoch Building” Design Studies 27: 615-632

• Innes, A., Mackay, K. and McCabe, L. (2006) “Dementia Studies online: reflections on the opportunities and drawbacks of elearning” Journal of Vocational Education and Learning, 58(3): 303-317

Book Chapters

• McCabe, L. and Innes, A. (2006) “Building on the lessons of evaluations,” In Innes, A. and McCabe, L. (Editors) Evaluation in Dementia Care, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

• Innes, A. and McCabe, L. (2006) “What is evaluation?”  In Innes, A. and McCabe, L. (Editors) Evaluation in Dementia Care, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

• McCabe, L. (2006) “Evaluation in a policy context,” In Innes, A. and McCabe, L. (Editors) Evaluation in Dementia Care, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Research Reports

• McCabe, L and McDonald, C (2008) Awareness and understanding of alcohol related brain damage among publicans, Research report for the Mitchell Charitable Trust

• McCabe, L. (2006) Working with people with ARBD, Stirling: Dementia Services Development Centre, University of Stirling

• Innes, I., Macpherson, S. and McCabe, L. (2006) Promoting person centred care at the frontline York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation

  
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• McCabe, L. (2005) Alcohol Insight: Alcohol related brain damage: knowledge and attitudes of frontline care staff London: Alcohol Education and Research Council

  
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• Cox, S., Anderson, I. and McCabe, L. (2004) A Fuller Life: Report of the Expert Group on Alcohol Related Brain Damage, University of Stirling and Scottish Executive: Dementia Services Development Centre.

  
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Edited Books

• No Edited Books in our records

• Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Fife Council
• Physical activity for people with dementia
• Keeping your brain active
• Safe walking for people with dementia