Jacqui Kerr - Returning to My Roots: Visiting a Memory Café

Dementia Researcher Blogs · Sep 9, 2026 · 5m

Jacqui Kerr narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher.

Jacqui manages a research network. Most days that means teams, partnerships and delivery pathways. Then she drove north to a memory café in a rural Scottish town, sat down with a cuppa, and found herself back in the job she trained for in 2000. She had come to talk about research opportunities. What she got instead was a roomful of people asking how to take part, what would be expected of them, and whether living miles from a study site would count them out. Nobody was put off. She writes about what that afternoon put back into…