Centre for Ageing and the Life Course welcomes expert in dementia as Honorary Visiting Professor
Dr Shibley Rahman has been appointed as a Visiting Professor associated with the University of Liverpool’s Centre for Ageing and the Life Course. The 2-year appointment will bring a breadth of professional and academic expertise in the field to the Centre.
He has published widely both books and papers in the areas of frailty, delirium, and dementia. Dr Rahman actively promotes adult geriatrics and neurology, and he is currently the Convenor of the Neuro-Delirium Special Interest Group for the American Delirium Society.
Dr Shibley Rahman’s research seeks to address the many real concerns of patients and carers in geriatrics. He believes that social inequalities play a critical role in shaping the lived experience of older individuals with the frailty syndromes, including dementia, and their care givers.
Literary accounts from academics for the general public have inspired Dr Rahman’s desire to facilitate wider conversations about caring and dying. Shibley has published literature for the general public, namely ‘Living better with dementia’ (2015), 'Enhancing health and wellbeing in dementia: a person-centred integrated approach' (2017), and professionals, namely ‘Essentials of dementia’ (2018).
Speaking of the appointment, Dr Shibley Rahman, shares:
“My beliefs and interests about older age are closely aligned to the Centre for Ageing and the Life Course at the University of Liverpool. I admire and respect a large number of academic colleagues at the Centre, and it truly is a great honour personally to be joining this thriving academic community as an Honorary Visiting Professor”.
Throughout his time at the University of Liverpool, Dr Rahman plans to write an autobiographical memoir, to explain why unpaid carers matter, to expand on how unpaid carers have continued to be ambassadors of social justice in face of huge pressures and obstacles.