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  • Conway, A., Bradley, R., Ryan, A., McCauley, C., Lynch, B., Harkin, D. and Penney, S., 2026, January. “The Window of Opportunity”: A Qualitative Exploration of Individual Reminiscence in Care Home Settings. In Healthcare (Vol. 14, No. 2, p. 276). MDPI. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare14020276
  • Lynch, Brighide, Assumpta Ryan, Sonja McIlfatrick, Sarah Penney, Rosemary Bradley, Marie O'neill, Claire McCauley et al. "The Impact of a Leadership Support Programme on Care Home Residents and Their Families: A Qualitative Study From the Perspective of Participating Care Home Leaders." International Journal of Older People Nursing 20, no. 6 (2025): e70054. https://doi.org/10.1111/opn.70054
  • Bradley, R., Ryan, A. and Penney, S., 2025. Improving meaningful activity and meaningful engagement for residents in long-term care settings. Nursing Older People, 37(6). doi: 10.7748/nop.2024.e1495. DOI: 10.7748/nop.2024.e1495
  • Penney, S, Ryan, A, Slater, PF, Meyer, J, Dewar, B, Owen, T & Lynch, B 2023, 'An evaluation of the ‘My Home Life’ Leadership Support programme for care home managers', International Journal of Research in Nursing, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 19-33. https://doi.org/10.3844/ijrnsp.2023.19.33
  • Lynch, B., Ryan, A.A., O’Neill, M. and Penney, S., 2022. The factors that influence care home residents’ and families’ engagement with decision-making about their care and support: an integrative review of the literature. BMC geriatrics, 22(1), p.873. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-022-03503-8
  • Ryan, A.A. and Moore, K., 2021. Knowing me, knowing you’: an exploration of the views and experiences of nursing home residents and staff on their nursing home as ‘home. Ageing & Society, 43(4), pp.768789 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X21000787
  • O'Neill, M., Ryan, A., Tracey, A. and Laird, L., 2020. ‘Waiting and Wanting’: older peoples’ initial experiences of adapting to life in a care home: a grounded theory study. Ageing & Society, 42(2), pp.351-375. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X20000872
  • O’Neill, M., Ryan, A., Tracey, A. and Laird, L., 2020. ‘The Primacy of ‘Home’: An exploration of how older adults’ transition to life in a care home towards the end of the first year. Health & social care in the community, 30(2), pp.e478-e492. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13232Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
  • O'Neill, M., Ryan, A., Tracey, A. and Laird, L., 2020. “You're at their mercy”: Older peoples' experiences of moving from home to a care home: A grounded theory study. International Journal of Older People Nursing, 15(2), p.e12305. https://doi.org/10.1111/opn.12305
  • Penney, S. and Ryan, A., 2018. The effect of a leadership support programme on care home managers. Nursing Older People, 37(5). https://doi.org/10.7748/nop.2018.e979
  • Laird, E.A., Ryan, A., McCauley, C., Bond, R.B., Mulvenna, M.D., Curran, K.J., Bunting, B., Ferry, F. and Gibson, A., 2018. Using mobile technology to provide personalized reminiscence for people living with dementia and their carers: appraisal of outcomes from a quasi-experimental study. JMIR mental health, 5(3), p.e9684. https://doi.org/10.2196/mental.9684
  • Ryan, A.A., McCauley, C.O., Laird, E.A., Gibson, A., Mulvenna, M.D., Bond, R., Bunting, B., Curran, K. and Ferry, F., 2018. ‘There is still so much inside’: The impact of personalised reminiscence, facilitated by a tablet device, on people living with mild to moderate dementia and their family carers. Dementia, 19(4), pp.1131-1150. https://doi.org/10.1177/1471301218795242
  • Lynch, B.M., McCance, T., McCormack, B. and Brown, D., 2018. The development of the Person‐Centred Situational Leadership Framework: Revealing the being of person‐centredness in nursing homes. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 27(1-2), pp.427-440.
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  • Ryan, A.A. and McKenna, H., 2015. ‘It's the little things that count’. Families' experience of roles, relationships and quality of care in rural nursing homes. International Journal of Older People Nursing, 10(1), pp.38-47.
  • Ryan, A. and McKenna, H., 2013. ‘Familiarity’as a key factor influencing rural family carers’ experience of the nursing home placement of an older relative: a qualitative study. BMC Health Services Research, 13(1), p.252. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/13/252
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  • Ryan, A., Mckenna, H. and Slevin, O., 2012. Family care-giving and decisions about entry to care: A rural perspective. Ageing & Society, 32(1), pp.1-18. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X11000055