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Working together with older people
- Authors:
- UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON, AGE UK BRIGHTON AND HOVE
- Publishers:
- University of Brighton, Age UK Brighton & Hove
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 6 minutes 46 seconds
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
One of six films made as part of an ESRC funded participatory research project which explored what well-being means to older people and how it is generated. The research was carried out by a team of older people, university researchers and a voluntary sector manager. In this film the older people who took part in this research reflect on their experiences. The researchers discuss what they learnt about working with older people to do this research and suggest that this is useful in other contexts where groups of older people come together and share their experience and knowledge to shape services. The film is a scripted scenario based on interviews. (Edited publisher abstract)
Introduction to wellbeing
- Authors:
- UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON, AGE UK BRIGHTON AND HOVE
- Publishers:
- University of Brighton, Age UK Brighton & Hove
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 6 minutes 46 seconds
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
One of six films made as part of an ESRC funded participatory research project which explored what well-being means to older people and how it is generated. The research was carried out by a team of older people, university researchers and a voluntary sector manager. This film starts by considering the idea of wellbeing. It then describes the process of making the project and what the team learnt about ethical practice in working with older people collectively in carrying out the research. It introduces ideas about care ethics. Members of the research team also talk about what they learnt about well-being and about their experiences of taking part in the research. The film is a scripted scenario based on interviews. (Edited publisher abstract)
Being well enough in old age
- Authors:
- BARNES Marian, TAYLOR David, WARD Lizzie
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 33(3), 2013, pp.473-493.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article offers a critique of the dominant ways in which well-being has been conceptualized and researched within social policy, focusing in particular on the significance of this for policy relating to older people. It conceptualizes well-being as relational and generative rather than an individual outcome. Normative notions of independence, autonomy and consumerism at the heart of policy on well-being and ageing are critically explored and it is suggested that indexes of older people’s happiness conceal more than they reveal. This theoretical approach is illustrated with empirical material from a participatory study in which older people were co-producers of knowledge about what well-being means and how it can be produced. Working with older people as co-researchers it was found that keeping well in old age involves demanding emotional and organizational labour both for older people and for family and friends. The need for ethical and relational sensibilities at the heart of policy on well-being and ageing is suggested. (Edited publisher abstract)
Involving older age: the route to twenty-first century well-being
- Authors:
- HOBAN Martin, et al
- Publisher:
- Royal Voluntary Service
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 98
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Shaping our Age was a pioneering three-year research project involving older people conducted jointly by the Centre for Citizen Participation at Brunel University, the Centre for Social Action at De Montfort University and older people’s charity the Royal Voluntary Service. 163 older people participated in focus groups and qualitative interviews contributing their life stories and personal experiences of ageing. Social connectedness was the most strongly voiced and frequently mentioned aspect shaping wellbeing. The research shows that older people have a great deal to contribute to the debate around well-being and services for older people and yet 71% say that they are rarely or never consulted on services that impact their life. The research findings in this final project report challenge the common perceptions of ageing and seek to question the portrayal of older people and the assumptions that those providing services for them often make. (Edited publisher abstract)
Well-being in old age: findings from participatory research
- Authors:
- WARD Lizzie, BARNES Marian, GAHAGAN Beatrice
- Publisher:
- University of Brighton; Age Concern Brighton, Hove and Portslade
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 88p.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
This project was designed to develop understanding of what well-being means to older people, and of how it is produced. A major aim of the project was to make a contribution to thinking about policy and practice and how this might enhance or detract from the way people experience well-being in old age. Eleven co-researchers, aged between 60 and 87, were recruited between 2008 and 2011. The co-researchers carried out one to one interviews with 30 older people and seven focus groups in which another 59 older people took part. Findings revealed that relationships were significant. Families could be a source of support and security, but for some can also involve difficult and painful relationships, distance and estrangement. Good relationships with adult children can contribute to well-being and maintaining satisfactory relationships was recognised as important. Health also featured as an important factor in well-being; chronic ill health had not only physical effects, but also emotional and psychological impacts. However, Being able to draw on experiences gained over a lifetime, learning from past mistakes, or reflecting on the benefit of hindsight, informed present attitudes and was a personal resource for some.
LAUGH: playful objects in advanced dementia care
- Author:
- TREADAWAY Cathy
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 26(4), 2018, pp.24-26.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
The article reports on an international research project led by the Cardiff School of Art and Design at Cardiff Metropolitan University to develop highly personalised, playful objects for people with advanced dementia. The aim of the project was to understand the best ways to design objects that can give pleasure and comfort to people in the advanced stages of dementia and to provide guidance for designers working in the sector. The article discusses the participatory approach to the research, testing and feedback and provides an example of one of the LAUGH objects that was found to have a significant impact on wellbeing - a comforting "Hug". The article also covers how the objects stimulate memories and some of the outcomes from the project and future direction. (Original abstract)
Negotiating well-being: older people's narratives of relationships and relationality
- Author:
- WARD Lizzie
- Journal article citation:
- Ethics and Social Welfare, 8(3), 2014, pp.293-305.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Abingdon
This article discusses well-being in old age by drawing on findings from participatory research carried out by older co-researchers exploring how older people learn to sustain their own and others’ well-being. For the research, interviews were carried out with 30 people aged 67 to 97 and a further 59 people took part in focus groups. The article considers the way in which research based in older people's experience can inform ethical policy and practice capable of delivering well-being. It critiques individualized notions of well-being and provides a counter-perspective based in relational understandings of what it is to be human drawn from feminist care ethics. This offers a different way of understanding the significance of social relationships and networks to older people's well-being from that offered by a focus on ‘community’ which has emerged in the communitarian discourses of the UK Coalition government. It illustrates this with older people's accounts of well-being highlighting the ways in which relationships with people, places and spaces are negotiated with ageing. Finally it argues that this relational conceptualization of well-being embodies values and the ethical dimensions of responsibility based in lived experiences. This provides the basis for alternative values-based policies and practices which we need to distinguish from the instrumental expression of social relationships and ‘community’ within communitarian discourses. (Edited publisher abstract)
Co‐creation of services to maintain independence and optimise well‐being: learnings from Australia’s Older Women Living Alone (OWLA) project
- Authors:
- OGRIN Rajna, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 28(2), 2020, pp.494-504.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
For many populations at risk of social isolation, including Older Women Living Alone (OWLA), existing services to maintain independence and optimise well‐being are difficult to access, unsuitable or unavailable. Co‐creation is a strategy to develop ‘person‐centred’ services that meet the needs of individuals. This study adapted an existing framework for co‐creation and used participatory action research methods, supported by an evidence base comprising a systematic review, analysis of routinely collected data and interviews, to develop person‐centred services for OWLA. This approach achieved co‐creation through an iterative process of consultation and review, involving a series of facilitated discussions with women living alone and stakeholders. A total of 13 women living alone, aged ≥55 years, and 11 stakeholders representing service providers and advocacy groups, were recruited to participate in these discussions. Sessions with between three and five OWLA, were held across Melbourne. The information was compiled and presented to service stakeholders in a single facilitated forum, held in central Melbourne. Smaller facilitated sessions with OWLA followed, to review and discuss the collated service stakeholder input. The information from these OWLA sessions were again compiled and directed back to the service stakeholders for consideration and further discussion. The two groups came together for a final forum to prioritise the co‐created ten services that they believed would be feasible and would address unmet need to support OWLA maintain independence. The process of co‐creation was time‐consuming and required considerable preparation to facilitate input from the target population. Small groups, gathering at convenient local locations, with transport support were essential in removing barriers to participation. However, co‐creation was a viable method of eliciting the women's preferences and developing services more likely to meet their needs. (Edited publisher abstract)