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Intergenerational Programme


Funder by UKRI (RED); Clore Duffield FoundationHelen Hamlyn Trust.

Inclusively designed inter-generational communities should form  part of a strategy to promote health and wellbeing across the life course, delaying age-related transitions, and thereby achieving the Ageing Society Grand Challenge of ensuring that people can enjoy at least  five extra healthy, independent years of life by 2035, while narrowing the gap between the experience of the richest and poorest.

Main objectives:

(1) Establish how  the organization and operation of inter-generational communities may support healthy ageing and enhance well-being amoung younger and older generations;

(2) Establish the design principles and strategies which promote health and wellbeing across the life course, and thereby help delay age-related transitions into dependence, frailty and ill-health;

(3) Establish how an appropriate policy agenda may be developed which supports inclusively designed inter-generational communities as part of a strategy to promote health and wellbeing across the life course, thereby help delay age-related transitions into dependence, frailty and ill-health, and support well-being for all ages. 

Intergenerational Relationships and Health

A key challenge for the UK in the  21st Century is to create living environments which support older people to remain active  and independent, thus delaying transitions into more intensive care services. In this process, the  importance of person-centred integrated care central to EPICS is now widely recognised and accepted.

(1) Explore how interaction between the generations improves well-being and mental health for both young and old,  and can help address loneliness.

Intergenerational Communities

(1) How  the organization and operation of inter-generational communities may support healthy ageing; and enhance well-being amoung younger and older generations.

(2) The design principles and strategies which promote health and wellbeing across the life course, and thereby help delay age-related transitions into dependence, frailty and ill-health;

(3) Policy agenda may be developed which supports inclusively designed inter-generational communities as part of a strategy to promote health and wellbeing across the life course, thereby help delay age-related transitions into dependence, frailty and ill-health, and support well-being for all ages. 

 

Joining our existing team of researchers we are delighted to announce the appointment of

Anthony Howarth joins us as a Research Fellow. Anthony is an anthropologist who has worked on community and intergenerational relationships, with particular interest in the Traveler Community.  Anthony previously worked at the School of Anthropology, Oxford, and joined the Institute of 1st May.

 

Caroline Potter is a medical anthropologist with expertise in qualitative and mixed-methods health research joins us as a Senior Research Fellow. Her work on chronic long-term conditions (e.g. obesity, dementia, multi-morbidity) explores practices of care and provision of health services, at both personal and population levels. In her current fellowship project Caroline aims to identify the health outcomes that matter most to people living with multiple long-term conditions, and to determine how new initiatives for ‘integrated care’ (e.g. social prescribing, primary care networks in the NHS Long Term Plan) can be evaluated using these patient-centred outcomes.

 

Melina Malli has a background in Psychology  and joins us as a Research Fellow. Melina  is currently at Manchester Met University understanding and using people’s experiences of social care to guide service improvements: could an effective and efficient co-design approach be translated from health to social care project, exploring the meaning of loneliness by those who have experienced it.

Also joining us as Programme Research Assistants are

  • Sherri Cuffe, Harvard School of Public Health
  • Amanda Currie, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Brazil