Searching for solutions for a happy older age - a PhD research journey
The population are ageing and it is estimated that by 2025 there will be a 25% increase in the number of people aged 65 and over living in the UK with disability compared with 2015.
Promoting independence among older people and those living with frailty and multi-morbidity is a key outcome of health and social care policy and practice.
Emily Taylor, a PhD student from NIHR ARC South West Peninsula, has been looking to identify what factors are associated with older people maintaining their independence using both quantitative, qualitative and integrative methods.
Emily won an NIHR Short Placement Award for Research Collaboration (SPARC), to work with ourselves at ARC-GM and spend time in Manchester with our Public and Community Involvement and Engagement team to arrange and deliver two workshops with the Wai-Yin Society.
The community group workshops aimed to explore the relevance that Emily's research results had for communities that were not represented in the original project.
You can read more about this work in a blog that Emily wrote for NIHR’s Your Path in Research Campaign, which is available from here:
Find out more about the NIHR Short Placement Award for Research Collaboration (SPARC) Programme from here.