Library and resources

This page will contains all of our reports publications networks blogs and more 

Blogs

Help and support to stay independent as we age: who is missing out?

Written by Dr. Gemma Spiers, Senior Research Associate 

Written 21/04/2021

Frailty: can (and should) we measure it in younger populations?

Written by Dr. Gemma Spiers, Senior Research Associate 

Written 24/03/2021

Our projects

The broader research themes are grouped around a range of research priority projects. The projects are listed below click the text to learn more about each of them:

• The contribution of single and multiple chronic conditions to the deteriorating time trends in later-life disability (Project 1)
• Using individual and neighbourhood profiles and trends to understand frailty, using nationally representative population data (Project 2)
• Rapid evidence syntheses on a range of topics, including digital technologies for health, loneliness and end of life care (Project 3)
• Future trends in disability in old age (Project 4)
• The impact of Care Act Easements under the Coronavirus Act 2020 (Project 5)
• Exploring older people’s support needs for making healthier decisions about alcohol during COVID-19 (Project 6)
• Improving discussions about resuscitation for bereaved relatives in COVID-19 (Project 7) 
• Palliative and End of life Care experiences of people of African and Caribbean descent during COVID-19 (PEACE) (Project 8)
• Unmet needs for support to maintain independence in later life (Project 9)

Rapid responses

Alongside our planned programme of work we also provide the Department of Health and Social Care and the National Institute of Health Research with rapid research responses to important questions. Below are all our rapid responses.

• Strength and balance exercises for falls prevention and musculoskeletal health
• What matters to people with multiple conditions (multimorbidities) and their carers?
• How effective is public health advice for healthy ageing and can it be updated based on any recent research?
• Physical Activity: Life course trajectories and patterns of strength in the UK
• Executive Summary: Physical Activity: Life course trajectories and patterns of strength in the UK
• Covid-19 International Learning 
• Covid-19 Short Summary evidence for CFS in ICU and Critical Care 
• Covid-19 Technology for strength and balance 
• Covid-19 OPFPRU IDEAL COVID-19 Dementia Initiative SRE 
• Covid-19 Digital Inclusion of Older Populations
• Covid-19 Befriending and Social Support in Isolation 

Publications

Many of our projects and rapid responses have been peer reviewed and published in various journals:

• Remotely Delivered Interventions to Reduce Social Isolation and Loneliness 
• Healthy ageing for all? Comparisons of socioeconomic inequalities in health expectancies over two decades in the Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies I and II
• Trends in life expectancy and healthy life years at birth and age 65 in the UK, 2008–2016, and other countries of the EU28
• The contribution of multiple long-term conditions to widening inequalities in disability-free life expectancy over two decades: Longitudinal analysis of two cohorts using the Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies
• Map the apps: a rapid review of digital approaches to support the engagement of older adults in strength and balance exercises
• Promotion of Physical Activity in Older People Using mHealth and eHealth Technologies: Rapid Review of Reviews
• Measuring frailty in younger populations: a rapid review of evidence

Research videos

Watch our research team talk about their projects in this series of videos:

• Covid-19 Technology for strength and balance
• Covid-19 The use of the Clinical Frailty Scale in intensive and critical care settings
• Covid-19 Remotely Delivered Interventions to Reduce Social Isolation and Loneliness
• End of Life Care Research
• Digital technologies for falls prevention
• PHD Proposal: The Use of framework-based synthesis to underpin the consideration of equity and inequality in evidence synthesis

Resources 

Involve: read how to get involved in research with the National Institute of Health Research 

MICRA: Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing, our partner for reaching out to the public and gaining their experiences and expertise 

The VOICE Digital Platform: our partner for reaching out to the public and gaining their experiences and expertise