Contact

• workRoom B floor open office Institute of Mental Health
  Innovation Park
  Triumph Road
  Nottingham
  NG7 2TU
  UK
• Esther.Loseto-Gerritzen1@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Esther Loseto-Gerritzen (PhD) is a research fellow at the Institute of Mental Health. She has a BSc in European Public Health and a MSc in Health Education and Promotion from Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Esther completed her PhD at the University of Nottingham as part of DISTINCT, a European Union funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network focusing on dementia, social health and technology.

Esther's research focuses on post-diagnostic support for people with Young Onset Dementia (onset before the age of 65). The Social Health framework is the foundation throughout Esther's research. During her PhD she developed a Best Practice Guidance on online peer support for people with Young Onset Dementia. Esther is interested in psychosocial support and interventions for people with Young Onset Dementia and their families, and how technology can play a role in this.

Esther is also an active member of INTERDEM Academy and is one of the two first Junior Representatives in the INTERDEM Board. In this role Esther is co-leading an INTERDEM-wide webinar series and is working hard to involve more early-career researchers in INTERDEM Academy. Within INTERDEM, Esther is also co-lead of the Young Onset Dementia taskforce. Outside of INTERDEM, Esther is leading a Young Onset Dementia Special Interest Group as part of Dem-Comm, a NIHR and Alzheimer's Society funded program on building capacity in dementia research.

Teaching Summary

Lecturing

• MSc Mental Health Research - Dementia module
• BSc Health Promotion and Public Health

Marking

• MSc Mental Health Research - Dementia module

Supervising

• BMedSci third year dissertation project

Research Summary

NIHR ARC-EM / Alzheimer's Society (2023 - current) Dem-Comm Programme Building Capacity in Dementia Research. Focussing on postdiagnostic support for people with Young Onset Dementia.

Selected Publications

• GERRITZEN, E.V., ORRELL, M. and MCDERMOTT, O., 2024. Optimising Online Peer Support for People with Young Onset Dementia International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: Special Issue Innovations in Care and Support for People Living with Young Onset or Rarer Forms of Dementia. 21(1),
• GERRITZEN, E.V., MCDERMOTT, O. and ORRELL, M., 2023. Online peer support: views and experiences of people with young onset dementia (YOD) Aging & Mental Health. 27(12), 2386-2394
• HARDING, E., ROSSI-HARRIES, S., GERRITZEN, E.V., ZIMMERMAN, N., HOARE, Z., PROCTOR, D., BROTHERHOOD, E., CRUTCH, S. and SUÁREZ-GONZÁLEZ, A., 2023. "I felt like I had been put on the shelf and forgotten about" - lasting lessons about the impact of COVID-19 on people affected by rarer dementias BMC Geriatrics. 23(1),
• STEVENS-NECK, R., WALTON, J., ALTERKAWI, S., BROTHERHOOD, E.V., CAMIC, P.M., CRUTCH, S.J., GERRITZEN, E.V., HARDING, E., MCKEE-JACKSON, R., ROSSI-HARRIES, S., STREET, R.E., VAN DER BYL WILLIAMS, M., WADDINGTON, C., WOOD, O. and MOORE, K.J., 2023. A mixed methods evaluation of a program exploring predeath grief and loss for carers of people with rarer dementias - CORRIGENDUM International Psychogeriatrics. 2(1),

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Past Research

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (2019-2023) DISTINCT early career researcher, PhD conducted as part of this programme. Topic: online peer support for people with Young Onset Dementia.

• GERRITZEN, E.V., ORRELL, M. and MCDERMOTT, O., 2024. Optimising Online Peer Support for People with Young Onset Dementia International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: Special Issue Innovations in Care and Support for People Living with Young Onset or Rarer Forms of Dementia. 21(1),
• GERRITZEN, E.V., ORRELL, M. and MCDERMOTT, O., 2024. Optimising Online Peer Support for People with Young Onset Dementia International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: Special Issue Innovations in Care and Support for People Living with Young Onset or Rarer Forms of Dementia. 21(1),
• GERRITZEN, E.V., KOHL, G., ORRELL, M. and MCDERMOTT, O., 2023. Peer support through video meetings: Experiences of people with young onset dementia Dementia. 22(1), 218-234
• STEVENS-NECK, R., WALTON, J., ALTERKAWI, S., BROTHERHOOD, E.V., CAMIC, P.M., CRUTCH, S.J., GERRITZEN, E.V., HARDING, E., MCKEE-JACKSON, R., ROSSI-HARRIES, S., STREET, R.E., VAN DER BYL WILLIAMS, M., WADDINGTON, C., WOOD, O. and MOORE, K.J., 2023. A mixed methods evaluation of a program exploring predeath grief and loss for carers of people with rarer dementias - CORRIGENDUM International Psychogeriatrics. 2(1),
• HARDING, E., ROSSI-HARRIES, S., GERRITZEN, E.V., ZIMMERMAN, N., HOARE, Z., PROCTOR, D., BROTHERHOOD, E., CRUTCH, S. and SUÁREZ-GONZÁLEZ, A., 2023. "I felt like I had been put on the shelf and forgotten about" - lasting lessons about the impact of COVID-19 on people affected by rarer dementias BMC Geriatrics. 23(1),
• GERRITZEN, E.V., MCDERMOTT, O. and ORRELL, M., 2023. Online peer support: views and experiences of people with young onset dementia (YOD) Aging & Mental Health. 27(12), 2386-2394
• GERRITZEN, E., LEE, A., MCDERMOTT, O., COULSON, N.S. and ORRELL, M., 2022. Online peer support for people with Multiple Sclerosis: a narrative synthesis systematic review. International Journal of MS Care. 24(6), 252-259
• GERRITZEN, E.V., MCDERMOTT, O. and ORREL, M., 2022. Development of Best Practice Guidance on Online Peer Support for People With Young Onset Dementia: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study JMIR Research Protocols. 11(7),
• GERRITZEN, E.V., LEE, A.R., MCDERMOTT, O., COULSON, N. and ORRELL, M., 2022. Online Peer Support for People With Parkinson Disease: Narrative Synthesis Systematic Review JMIR Aging. 5(3),
• GERRITZEN, E.V., MCDERMOTT, O. and ORRELL, M., 2022. Development of Best Practice Guidance on Online Peer Support for People With Young Onset Dementia: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study JMIR Research Protocols. 11(7),
• LEE AR, GERRITZEN EV, MCDERMOTT O, ORRELL M, GERRITZEN EV and MCDERMOTT O, 2021. Exploring the Role of Web-Based Interventions in the Self-management of Dementia: Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis J Med Internet Res. 23(7), e26551
• GERRITZEN, E.V., HULL, M.J., VERBEEK, H., SMITH, A.E. and DE BOER, B., 2020. Successful Elements of Intergenerational Dementia Programs: A Scoping Review Journal of Intergenerational Relationships. 18(2), 214-245