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OPEN Older People’s Engagement Network: community engagement by older people
- Author:
- OPEN OLDER PEOPLE'S ENGAGEMENT NETWORK
- Publisher:
- Outside the Box Development Support
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 11p.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
The Older People’s Engagement Network was started in partnership between SOPAG (Scottish Older People’s Advisory Group) and Outside the Box Development Support. Engagement, when older people are working in a long-term relationship with other organisations, especially statutory bodies, is discussed.
Fife user panels project
- Author:
- COMRIE Joyce
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 15(2), 1997, pp.20-22.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Describes a project in Scotland aimed at empowering the frail elderly.
User panel project: seminar report Silverburn 16 November 1992
- Author:
- AGE CONCERN SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- Kirkcaldy
Seminar report on a project which aims to establish panels of older people who are community care service users and potential users.
Key findings from the Rural Wisdom evaluation
- Authors:
- NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FORUM FOR INCLUSION, et al
- Publisher:
- National Development Team for Inclusion
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Pagination:
- 4
- Place of publication:
- Bath
A summary of the key findings from the first year of Rural Wisdom, a five-year Big Lottery funded project to explore the impact of community-based activities led by older people living in rural areas in Scotland and Wales. The findings highlight useful learning, challenges identified, who needs to be involved in similar projects, and areas for future development. The project found that councils and health and social care partners liked the creative ways used by the project to engage with older people and others in small rural communities to improve links with the public sector. It has also made progress in supporting older people to access services that meet their needs and lead change in their communities. (Edited publisher abstract)
Capturing the concealed: Interprofessional practice and older patients' participation in decision-making about discharge after acute hospitalization
- Authors:
- HUBY Guro, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interprofessional Care, 21(1), January 2007, pp.55-67.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The aim of this paper is to investigate ways in which the dynamics of interprofessional work shaped older patients' “participation” in decision-making about discharge from acute hospital care in a medical directorate of a District General Hospital in Scotland. Twenty-two purposively selected older patients and their key professional hospital carers in three different ward environments participated in the study. An ethnographic approach was adopted, involving semi-structured interviews with patients and staff combined with rigorous observation of the practical context for staff and patient interactions during the discharge planning process over a 5-month period. Patients' and staff's understanding of “decision-making” and their priorities for discharge were different, but patients' perspectives fragmented and became invisible. Care routines, which centred around assessments and the decisions that flowed from these tended to exclude both staff and patients from active decision-making. Research and practice on patient involvement in discharge decision-making needs to focus on the organizational context, which shapes patients', unpaid carers' and staff's interactions and the dynamics by which some views are privileged and others excluded. Procedurally driven care routines and their impact on patients', carers' and staff's opportunity to actively engage in decision-making should be re-considered from an empowerment perspective.
If they would listen...: an evaluation of the Fife User Panels
- Authors:
- BARNES Marian, BENNETT-EMSLIE Gaynor
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 70p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Evaluation of a project which seeks to ensure that older people in Scotland have a voice in community care planning. Looks at: the panel model; panel members views of being involved; and the response of statutory agencies to the user panel.
Rural Wisdom evaluation: key findings: December 2021
- Author:
- NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TEAM FOR INCLUSION
- Publisher:
- National Development Team for Inclusion
- Publication year:
- 2021
- Pagination:
- 5
- Place of publication:
- Bath
As part of the final stages of the Rural Wisdom, this briefing shares the learning from across the five years of the project to enable people living and working in other rural areas across the UK to apply and benefit from what works. Rural Wisdom is a five-year National Lottery funded project exploring the impact of community-based activities that are led by older people living in rural areas in Scotland and Wales. The aims of Rural Wisdom have evolved during the five years to reflect the changing nature of the project and the communities it was working with, but have remained focused on: reducing social isolation and loneliness; ensuring older people have a voice to lead change locally in their communities and nationally at a policy level; making sure more older people get the support they want in a way that works for them via a wider range of community-based services; influencing policy change in Scotland and Wales to ensure older people can continue to live in the rural communities they know and contribute to them. What works key messages are grouped into three areas: laying the foundations; facing forks in the road; leaving a legacy. (Edited publisher abstract)
Rural Wisdom evaluation: key findings, January 2021
- Author:
- NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TEAM FOR INCLUSION
- Publisher:
- National Development Team for Inclusion
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Pagination:
- 10
- Place of publication:
- Bath
This document shares the key findings from the five original communities, at the end of Stage 1 of Rural Wisdom. Rural Wisdom is a five-year National Lottery funded project exploring the impact of community-based activities that are led by older people living in rural areas in Scotland and Wales. In this first stage Development Workers have been working closely with older people and the community to identify and address the key issues, achieve the project outcomes and create sustainable change. Key findings include: older people are more likely to be motivated to use their skills and experience to lead change if they feel the activity is one that is wanted by the community and they can see results for their time and effort; Development Workers are a vehicle for change – they are engaged with their community and so are aware of issues and needs and can facilitate contact with public services or organisations so older people can engage directly to influence provision; older people need links to people running all sorts of services to be able to voice their views and ideas; transport is vital for many older people to be able to get to health services and activities in their community; it is important that older people know where to get information on community activities and public services. Older people are contributing to rural communities in a variety of ways: through volunteering both formally and informally; by building connections with others in the community and participating socially; through having a voice and actively campaigning for change or improvements; by caring for other people; through imparting their knowledge and experiences to help improve services or passing on their skills and expertise to others in the community. (Edited publisher abstract)
Integrating people with dementia and their carers into service design
- Author:
- CAINE Janice
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Integrated Care, 22(3), 2014, pp.91-98.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: This paper examines the process of including five people with dementia and their carers in the design and delivery of a research study on the use of music to increase wellbeing for both the person with dementia and their carer. It reflects on the method of using a participatory action research (PAR) approach and offers some insight into the processes of integrated working with service users and carers. The author begins with a person-centred approach and explores the value of placing service user engagement for successful integrated practice. Through these reflections on PAR, the author offers some new lessons about what integration means to practitioners at the front line of service delivery. PAR helps to gain service user views but supports service users and providers to work in an integrated way. Originality/value: A person-centred approach to service user participation in the research process has valuable insights for the integration of service users in the design and delivery of health and social care. The insights offered here highlight the complex processes which make-up effective engagement with service users and carers. It offers concrete details on the challenges which practitioners may face when they work to integrate service users and carers into the planning process. It also highlights the benefits of shared problem-solving and control. Practitioners already play an invaluable role in providing integrated care. This paper serves a reminder of much of what we already know and do. It also asks us to reconsider the focus of integration as a person-centred process. (Edited publisher abstract)
bespoken
- Publisher:
- Blackwood Foundation
A social media website dedicated to building a community that aims to include disabled people in the design of everyday household products to support independent living. The website lets disabled and older people share their insights, tips, frustrations, ideas and expertise about design and technology and how it affects independence. The aim is to support people to live independently and to get the most out of life. The site includes a number of discussion forums. an area for posting events and a chat room.