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Involvement of frail older people in research

Research project
Active research
Project owner
Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology

Short description

The aims of this project are: 1) to explore facilitators and barriers for involving older people living with frailty in health and social care research, and 2) to investigate how barriers can be overcome to co-create structures for person-centred care with this group. The project comprises six studies that involves frail older people, health and social care staff, and researchers in ageing and health. The long-term goal with the project is to support the transition towards person-centred health and social care through the development of a structure for how frail older people can be involved in research in a way they experience as both meaningful and relevant. In the project we use individual interviews, focus groups and photo elicitation interviews to co-create guidelines for involvement of frail older people in research.

Overarching goal

The project is multidisciplinary and affiliated to the Centre for Aging and Health, AgeCap /en/agecap and the Gothenburg University Centre for Person-Centred Care, GPCC /en/gpcc.

The overarching goal is to contribute to GPCC’s research areas:

  • Enabling transition to person-centred health and social care
  • Development of partnerships between patient representatives / the general public and healthcare organizations
     

Publications

(1)
Iwarsson, S., Edberg, A.-K., Ivanoff, S. D., Hanson, E., Jönson, H., & Schmidt, S. (2019).
Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine.

(2)
Rydberg Sterner, T., Ahlner, F., Blennow, K. et al.
Eur J Epidemiol 34, 191–209 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-018-0459-8

(3)
Dahlin-Ivanoff S, Rydberg Sterner T, Blennow K, Skoog I, Falk Erhag H.
BMC Geriatr. 2019 Aug 19;19(1):224. doi: 10.1186/s12877-019-1238-4.

(4) 
Lood Q, Hermansen Østby R, Hultqvist S, Edvardsson D, Dahlin-Ivanoff S.
Research Involvement and Engagement, 2023;9:9 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-023-00422-9

(5)
Berge I, Dahlin-Ivanoff, S, Barenfed E, Haak M, Lood Q.
Journal of Aging Studies, 2022;62:101059. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2022.1010

(6) 
Haak M, Dahlin-Ivanoff S, Barenfeld E, Berge I Lood Q.
Research Involvement and Engagement, 2021;7:91. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-021-00333-7

(7) 
Lood Q, Haak M, Dahlin-Ivanoff S.
BMJ Open, 2021;11:e048503. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-048503

(8) 
Berge I, Barenfeld E, Dahlin-Ivanoff S, Haak, M, Lood Q.
BMC Geriatrics, 2020, 410:20. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-020-01817-z

(9) Epistemic injustice – Examples from research with and for frail older people.
Lood Q, Frögren J, Dahlin-Ivanoff S.
In: Jönson, H. UserAge: Understanding user involvement in research on ageing and health. Research Reports in Social Work; Vol. 2023, Nr. 2.

(10) Research collaboration between researchers and persons outside academia.
In: Jönson, H. UserAge: Understanding user involvement in research on ageing and health.
Westergren A, Lautsen CE, Andersson S, Lood Q, Ã…lund S, Petersson P, Haak M.
Research Reports in Social Work; Vol. 2023, Nr. 2.

(11)
Dahlin-Ivanoff S, Berge I, Barenfeld E, Haak M, Lood Q. 
Research Involvement and Engagement, 2024;10:6. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-024-00540-y

(12)
Lood Q, Hermansen Østby R, Hultqvist S, Edvardsson D, Dahlin-Ivanoff S.
Research Involvement and Engagement, 2023;9:9. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-023-00422-9

(13)
Berge I, Dahlin-Ivanoff, S, Barenfeld E, Haak M, Lood Q.
Journal of Aging Studies, 2022;62:101059. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2022.101059

Research partners

Lund University
Kristianstad University
Linnaeus University
La Trobe University
91̽»¨ Centre for Person-Centred Care (GPCC)
Centre for Aging and Health (AgeCap)

Research groups members

Emmelie Barenfeld, researcher

Isak Berge, doctoral student

Synneve Dahlin-Ivanoff, researcher

David Edvardsson, researcher

Maria Haak, researcher

Roar Hermanssen Østby, doctoral student

Sara Hultqvist, researcher

Jenna Najar, researcher