title: Find yourself a suitable mentor.
abstract: Karen Harrison Dening has more than 40 years of nursing experience, more than 30 of which are in dementia care. She has worked for charity Dementia UK for the past ten years, initially as a consultant Admiral Nurse specialist and then as head of research and evaluation. For her PhD from University College London she focused on advance care planning and end of life care in dementia. She holds honorary academic positions at the universities of Liverpool and Nottingham, where she lectures and is involved in research.