Healthy Ageing in Residential Places
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Healthy Ageing in Residential Places
IRAS ID
147669
Contact name
Liz Lloyd
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Bristol
Research summary
Healthy Ageing in Residential Places is an international study about healthy ageing in longterm residential care in the UK, Canada, Sweden and Norway. The project is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and is nested within part of a larger study: ‘Reimagining LongTerm Residential Care: An International Study of Promising Practices’. The study aims to identity how the health and wellbeing of residents and staff can be promoted and what makes a care home a good place to live and work. Following the World Health Organisation (WHO), we take a broad view of health which includes mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects, as well as physical. Most government and
community approaches focus mainly on keeping people out of longterm residential care, even though many people
live in these places now, and will do so in the future. Importantly, this research focuses not on failures in longterm care, but on the ‘promising practices’ occurring in care homes that relate to healthy living, in all its forms. The main form of data collection is through the innovative method of rapid ethnography which will be conducted in all participating countries. It is designed to capture the rich detail necessary to identify strategies for active, healthy ageing by bringing
local and foreign researchers together to study two facilities in each country. They will observe staff and residents, and interview both staff and residents about their experiences in facilities. This will bring fresh eyes to these sites while
Social Care REC Form Reference:
14/IEC08/0006
IRAS Version 3.5
Date: 24/01/2014 5 147669/556480/27/465
Practices’. The study aims to identity how the health and wellbeing of residents and staff can be promoted and what
makes a care home a good place to live and work. Following the World Health Organisation (WHO), we take a broad
view of health which includes mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects, as well as physical. Most government and
community approaches focus mainly on keeping people out of longterm residential care, even though many people
live in these places now, and will do so in the future. Importantly, this research focuses not on failures in longterm care, but on the ‘promising practices’ occurring in care homes that relate to healthy living, in all its forms. The main form of data collection is through the innovative method of rapid ethnography which will be conducted in all participating countries. It is designed to capture the rich detail necessary to identify strategies for active, healthy ageing by bringing
local and foreign researchers together to study two facilities in each country. They will observe staff and residents, and interview both staff and residents about their experiences in facilities. This will bring fresh eyes to these sites while ensuring a local perspective and ensures that the researchers will be able to learn from and with other countries. Two care homes will be invited to participate in each jurisdiction. Prior to visiting the selected sites, existing literature and care home data will be gathered and analysed to set the context for the specific residences.REC name
Social Care REC
REC reference
14/IEC08/0006
Date of REC Opinion
17 Mar 2014
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion