Sarah Mason is a Parkinson’s disease nurse specialist
with the Belfast Trust and is working on an MPhil at
Queen’s University Belfast. Her research interests
include the use of assistive technologies for the support
of Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease patients.
Mason has a BA in nursing studies from Lancaster
University. Contact her at smason02@qub.ac.uk.
Peter Passmore is professor of aging and geriatric
medicine at Queen’s University Belfast. His research
interests include neurodegeneration, dementia and
pharmacology and therapeutics in older people. He
is a fellow in the Royal College of Physicians (London,
Glasgow); a fellow in the Royal College of Physicians,
Ireland; and a member in the Association of
Physicians Great Britain and Ireland, the Corrigan
Club, the British Geriatrics Society, and the British
Hypertension Society. Contact him at p.passmore@
qub.ac.uk.
David Craig is a consultant physician and faculty
member at Queen’s University Belfast. His research
interests include gerontechnologies and the biology
of Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. Craig
has an MPhil in Biological Sciences from Cambridge
University. Contact him at david.craig@qub.ac.uk.
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