Funder by UKRI (RED); Clore Duffield Foundation; Helen 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.