Older People
Around 430,000 people in Yorkshire & Humber are living with mild, moderate or severe frailty, accounting for £660million of health and care expenditure. There is a contemporary local, regional and national policy focus on frailty to improve wellbeing in later life and manage service demand in the NHS and social care. Professor Andrew Clegg leads our team.
Our aim is to improve the physical and mental health of older people living with frailty, including care home residents, and generate major health and care efficiency savings. We have established an internationally-leading team of cross-disciplinary researchers to do this. Our plans are ambitious and will build on the successes from our CLAHRC programme which achieved a paradigm shift in how older people with frailty could be identified and managed within a primary care setting. We have strong AHSN and cross-sector NHS, local authority, voluntary sector and industry partnerships. Our programme is aligned with the NHS Long Term Plan, Future of Health report priorities and regional STP/ICS.
Older People Projects
The INCLUDE study: Development of methods to identify digitally excluded older people, and tailoring of interventions to meet their digital needs
Background Older people are more likely to be ‘digitally excluded’. This refers to them not using the internet, so missing out on things that could be helpful to their well-being...
Understanding Variation in Admissions from Care Homes (UVAC)
Why the research is needed Older care home residents often suffer from reduced mobility, confusion and infections when they are in hospital. Previous research by the Health Foundation found that...
Promoting healthy lifestyles to reduce dementia risk factors in minority ethnic communities
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...