Understanding and Improving transitions of Older People: A user and carer centred approach

  • Glasby, Jon (Principal Investigator)
  • Davidson, Deborah (Co-Investigator)
  • Ellins, Jo (Co-Investigator)
  • Littlechild, Rosemary (Co-Investigator)
  • McIver, Shirley (Co-Investigator)
  • Morvinson, Elizabeth (Co-Investigator)

Project Details

Description

The aims of this research project are to:

Explore older people's experiences of moving across service boundaries, identifying positive and negative experiences, information and advice needs, access to services and needs for ongoing support.
Identify how the needs of particular groups of older people may differ from each other, and the different needs of service users.
Investigate these issues over time, to illuminate how previous transitions impact on current and future needs.
Draw out policy and practice implications for the way in which services prepare and support older people and their carers for transition between services.
Support and share the learning from implementation of project findings in four health and social care communities.
Approach

The research is being carried out in four case study areas, each of which is focusing on the experiences of a specific older user/carer group. These are:

Solihull: older people who have dementia and their carers
Leicester: older people from black and minority ethnic group
Manchester: older people who live in an area with a proportionally small older population
Gloucestershire: older people who live in rural areas
Going into hospitalUsing a participatory action research approach, the project will be co-delivered with older people who are recruited and trained to participate in the project as co-researchers. In each area, the research team is working with between 5-8 co-researchers who themselves have experiences of care transitions.

Following the fieldwork research, the research team will be working with key stakeholders in each case study area on a year-long implementation phase. Providing organisational development support to the areas involved, the goal of this phase is to embed the project findings into local policy and practice.
Short titleUnderstanding and Improving transitions of Older People: A user and carer centred approach
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date1/11/0831/03/12

Funding

  • NIHR

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