Healthy Active Ageing Research (HAAR)
HAAR is a group of researchers who are concerned with studying experiences of growing older, particularly from mid to later life, with a primary focus on the health and wellbeing of a diverse older population.
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Our research addresses key challenges related to marginalisation and the effects of population ageing. We also emphasise the importance of lived experience and highlight the positive contributions that an ageing population can make by addressing issues of ageism in community and service settings in local, national and global contexts.
Our areas of expertise include:
- Placemaking and Age-friendly cities and communities
- Care settings
- Ageing experiences in the Global South (Latin America, Southeast Asia, India)
- Ageing, technology, digital health, and digital inclusion
- Dementia, dementia awareness, dementia care, living well with dementia
- Frailty, including screening, assessment, enabling, rehabilitation, and person-centred care
- Inclusion and marginalisation in health, community, social and societal contexts including those at risk, including LGBTQ+ people and people with learning disabilities
- Intergenerational relationships, learning, and dynamics
- Older people’s human rights and active citizenship
- Successful, active, healthy and positive ageing
- Older people and palliative and end of life care, including future care plans
Our approaches
- Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR)
- Life course
- Intersectional
- Feminist
- Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary
Our methodological expertise:
- Qualitative methods (interviews, focus groups, audio-visual methods, photovoice, walk along interviews, diaries)
- Quantitative methods (survey, Delphi)
- Mixed-methods, Ethnography
- Realist reviews, Scoping reviews, systematic reviews, narrative reviews
- Policy analysis and development
- Bibliometric analysis
- Critical Discourse Analysis
- Environmental design research
- Community Engagement and Involvement (CEI)/Patient and Public Involvement (PPI)
- Community-based participatory research approach
- Health research, implementation science, improvement science and service evaluation
- Social media analysis
- Multiple sorting tasks
- Experiential Sampling Method
- Co-design and co-production approach
- Creative data interpretation and public engagement - through comics, exhibitions, storyboards, poetry, and storytelling
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