Projects

Better Start Bradford is making support and services for families stronger, and finding what works, so that children can have the best start in life. Born in Bradford’s Better Start...

Currently, the UK and international guidelines support routine identification of frailty in primary care to enable timely and targeted care for older people. Our Older people with Frailty theme lead,...

The population of older people living with frailty is increasing, and research needs to focus on improving areas of health and wellbeing for this population. There is limited evidence about...

Although research is well embedded – and resourced – within the NHS, the same is not currently true for adult social care. As more funding becomes available for social care...

The Pain in Older People with Frailty (POPPY) study is a mixed-method, co-design study, which aims to develop the content, implementation strategies, service and professional guidance to support older adults...

Recommendations of outcome measurement instruments used for the evaluation of community-based complex interventions targeted at sustaining the independence in older people with frailty There is growing evidence from randomised controlled...

The Community Ageing Research (CARE75+) Study is a longitudinal cohort study that recruits older people (≥ 75 years) via General Practices across England. The study is hosted at Bradford Teaching...

Prolonged sitting is associated with several detrimental health outcomes such as heart disease, obesity, and poorer mental and physical wellbeing. Older adults are the fastest growing and most sedentary group...

The UK South Asian population experience poorer frailty health outcomes than the white British population, and are less likely to access targeted frailty services to seek support for their health...

The objective it to study how implementation of the national policy on structured medication reviews (SMR) is impacting on the care of those with complex multimorbidity (4+ conditions) as a...

Withdrawing someone’s prescribed drugs to reduce their likelihood of experiencing side effects is called ‘deprescribing’. Th OPTIMISE2 trial will establish whether deprescribing common drugs that lower blood pressure is safe...

Funded by the NIHR, the Yorkshire and Humber Palliative Care Research Network launched in November2022. It is a collaboration between the Universities of Hull, Leeds, Sheffield and York, and aims...