About the Authors

Lucy Webster

Affiliation Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Derek Groskreutz

Affiliation Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Anna Grinbergs-Saull

Affiliation Alzheimer’s Society, London, United Kingdom

Rob Howard

Affiliation Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, United Kingdom

John T. O’Brien

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Gail Mountain

Affiliation ScHARR, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Sube Banerjee

Affiliation Centre for Dementia Studies, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, United Kingdom

Bob Woods

Affiliation Dementia Services Development Centre Wales, Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom

Robert Perneczky

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Louise Lafortune

Affiliation Cambridge Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Charlotte Roberts

Affiliation International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement, London, United Kingdom

Jenny McCleery

Affiliation Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom

James Pickett

Affiliation Alzheimer’s Society, London, United Kingdom

Frances Bunn

Affiliation Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom

David Challis

Affiliation Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Georgina Charlesworth

Affiliation Research Department of Clinical, Educational, and Health Psychology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Katie Featherstone

Affiliation School of Healthcare Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Chris Fox

Affiliation Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom

Claire Goodman

Affiliation Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom

Roy Jones

Affiliation Research Institute for the Care of Older People (RICE), University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom

Sarah Lamb

Affiliation Warwick Clinical Trials Research Unit, University of Warwick, Warwick, United Kingdom

Esme Moniz-Cook

Affiliation Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom

Justine Schneider

Affiliation Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Sasha Shepperd

Affiliation Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Claire Surr

Affiliation School of Health & Community Studies, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, United Kingdom

Jo Thompson-Coon

Affiliation PenCLAHRC, University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, United Kingdom

Clive Ballard

Affiliation Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

Carol Brayne

Affiliation Cambridge Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Alistair Burns

Affiliation Institute of Brain, Behaviour and Mental Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Linda Clare

Affiliations PenCLAHRC, University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, United Kingdom, School of Psychology, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

Peter Garrard

Affiliation Neuroscience Research Centre, St. George's, University of London, London, United Kingdom

Patrick Kehoe

Affiliation School of Clinical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Peter Passmore

Affiliation Centre for Public Health, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Clive Holmes

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

Ian Maidment

Affiliation Aston Research Centre for Healthy Ageing, Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Louise Robinson

Affiliation Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Gill Livingston

g.livingston@ucl.ac.uk

Affiliations Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, United Kingdom, North Thames CLAHRC, London, United Kingdom, Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

Professor John O'Brien reports personal fees from GE Healthcare, personal fees from TauRx, personal fees from Cytox, grants and personal fees from Avid/Lilly, personal fees from Axona, personal fees from Pirimal, outside the submitted work. Professor Sube Banerjee reports grants and personal fees from Abbvie, personal fees and non-financial support from Lilly, personal fees from Eleusis, personal fees from Daval International, personal fees from Boehringer-Ingelheim, personal fees from Axovant, personal fees from Lundbeck, personal fees from Nutricia, outside the submitted work; and has been involved as the principal investigator in a series of NIHR grants that has developed the DEMQOL system for the measurement of health related quality of life in dementia. This instrument is available freely and the author receives no financial benefit from its use. Professor Sarah Lamb reports grants from NIHR Health Technology Assessment Programme, during the conduct of the study. Professor Clive Ballard reports grants and personal fees from Lundbeck, grants and personal fees from Acadia, personal fees from Roche, personal fees from Orion, personal fees from GSK, personal fees from Otusaka, personal fees from Heptares, personal fees from Lilly, outside the submitted work. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.