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Can research evidence be timely, intelligible and available on demand?
- Author:
- CROSBY Gillian
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Integrated Care, 12(5), October 2004, pp.10-12.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
It is suggested that social care professionals are not making best use of the wealth of available online research. In the author's field there is great under-use of research evidence and staggering ignorance about the value and very existence of available resources. We are in danger of paying lip service to its importance. Outlines the future challenge and what the Centre for Policy on Ageing is doing.
Dementia in developing countries: a consensus statement from the 10/66 Dementia Research Group
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 15(1), January 2000, pp.14-20.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Less than one tenth of all population-based research into dementia is directed towards the two-thirds or more of cases living in developing parts of the world. The 10/66 Dementia Research Group has been formed to redress this imbalance, encouraging active research collaboration between centres in different developing countries and between developed and developing countries. Reports on a consensus meeting where it was felt there was a need for more research: quantifying prevalence and incidence, exploring regional variations in international collaborations using harmonized methodologies, describing care arrangements for people with dementia, quantifying the impact on caregivers and evaluating the effectiveness of any newly evaluated services.
Gay and Pleasant Land? Exploring sexuality, ageing and rurality in a multi-method, performative project
- Authors:
- FENGE Lee-Ann, JONES Kip
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 42(2), 2012, pp.300-317.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This paper considers how issues such as social exclusion and discrimination may impact upon older lesbians and gay men living in rural communities. It presents a discussion of a research project that is taking place as one part of the New Dynamics of Ageing Programme. The Gay and Pleasant Land? project is a multi-method project aiming to explore sexuality, ageing and rurality in the south-west of England and Wales. This paper considers the challenges of attempting to elicit the views and experiences of marginalised groups of older people using a range of different methods. The methods used in the project include visual ethnography, focus groups and interviews using the Biographic Narrative Interpretive Method (BNIM). The findings of the project are being used in the development and production of a short, professionally made film. It is envisaged that this film will be used as a dissemination tool. Performative Social Science methods and its philosophical grounding in Relational Aesthetics have formed the bedrock of the project and are fundamental to its participatory approach. Implications for research with marginalised groups in rural communities are discussed, alongside a consideration of multi-methods and the use of tools from the within social work research.
Real-life research: bridging the gap between research and practice
- Authors:
- TRAPPES-LOMAX Tessa, ELLIS Annie
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Integrated Care, 11(4), August 2003, pp.17-27.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Research partnership between 'thinkers' and 'doers' are now thought likely to deliver more useful and useable knowledge for health and social care. Uses, 'Buying Time', a three-year comparative study of residential rehabilitation for older people coming out of hospital as a case study to examine the wider issues of partnership research. Reflects on the theoretical and practical implications of partnership research, outlines some of the messages from the literature, and reviews the experience of the research. Concludes that it is difficult in practice to balance the demands of operational relevance and academic rigour, and that better resourcing may be required.
Environmental gerontology at the beginning of the new millennium: reflections on its historical, empirical, and theoretical development
- Authors:
- WAHL Hans-Werner, WEISMAN Gerald D.
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 43(5), October 2003, pp.616-627.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Over the past four decades the environmental context of aging has come to play an important role in gerontological theory, research, and practice. Environmental gerontology (EG)-focused on the description, explanation, and modification or optimization of the relation between elderly persons and their sociospatial surroundings-has emerged as a subfield in its own right. The aim of this article is to reflect on the historical, empirical, and theoretical development of recent EG. From a historical perspective, EG has clearly played an important and successful role within the gerontology enterprise in terms of explicit consideration of the sociophysical environment in theory and research. A literature analysis of empirical studies supports the view that research has continued on a substantial quantitative level during the 1990s. Findings of these research studies address the whole diversity of classic EG research questions, but mostly in the sense of replication and extension. In terms of theoretical discussion, our analysis leads to the insight that EG may be described as a field high in conceptual aspiration ("world views"), but low with regard to making research and application-productive use of its theoretical achievements.
Performance on the CERAD Word List Memory task: a comparison of university-based and community-based groups
- Authors:
- ANDEL Ross, et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 18(8), August 2003, pp.733-739.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Evaluation of patients for Alzheimer's disease often compares an individual's performance on cognitive tests to established norms. The purpose of this study was to compare performance on the CERAD Word List Memory tasks in normal controls from an Alzheimer's disease registry and in community volunteers. Scores on Word List Memory tasks were evaluated in cognitively intact participants enrolled in a university-based Alzheimer's disease registry (n=103) and in a sample of community volunteers (n=51). Scores for the two samples were also compared with previously published data from registry-based normal controls and from a representative community-based sample. University-based participants outperformed community volunteers, with most marked differences on Delayed Recall and on a Savings score that contrasted immediate to delayed recall. University-based participants performed similarly to previously published scores for normal controls from another university-based Alzheimer's disease registry, while community volunteers were consistent with published scores available from a representative community sample. Accurate neuropsychological assessment of Alzheimer's disease may require consideration of potentially subtle differences between older adults tested at university centers and those tested in the community.