Recent projects: Older People as Researchers (2003-2004)

Older People as Researchers: potential, practicalities and pitfalls

A research project funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

A project to:

a) capture the different ways in which older people are involved in research; and

b) consider the potential for older people to play a fuller part in research if they want to do so.

Summary of project

It has become commonplace to demand that older people are involved in research on social and health provision in old age. The researchers in this project are people who were involved in different roles in earlier research entitled Housing Decisions in Old Age: older people who were the core interviewers, having trained on a two term research methods course at Lancaster University; research staff; and an experienced voluntary sector campaigner. The older researchers are now established as a consortium: Older People Researching Social Issues. Drawing on experience from our earlier research, we wanted to:

c) capture the different ways in which older people are involved in research; and

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