Welcome to the new-look HARG (Healthy Ageing Research Group) website. Please make sure that if you have previously linked to us that you update your sites. There will be further updates and news in the forthcoming weeks. HARG (Healthy Ageing Research Group) is an interdisciplinary team from the University of Lincoln researching into a wide…
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HARG were asked by Lincolnshire County Council to undertake an independent health needs assessment for people living with neurological conditions in the county. A health needs assessment is a way in reviewing the current resources available to meeting the needs of a specific population. The review looked at adults over the age of 18, and…
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Do you pay for your own care, and live in Lincolnshire? Are you over 65? Do you live in Lincolnshire? Do you have carers that help you at home? Do you pay for your care yourself? We are researchers , at the University of Lincoln, (Health and Social Care) and want to find out how…
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The Health Ageing Research Group (HARG) from the School of Health and Social Care and have been asked by the Public Health Division, Lincolnshire County Council to undertake a health needs assessment for people with neurological conditions (including migraine, epilepsy etc). The purpose of a health needs assessment is to understand the current health needs…
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On Wednesday the 8th and Thursday 9th November HARG member Dr Claire Markham along with Dr Llinos Mary-Jehu, a colleague from the University of Birmingham, ran a 2 day workshop on NVivo for the School of Health and Social Care at the University of Lincoln. These workshops were well attended and the feedback received was very positive.
Harg’s very own Director Mo Ray has been interviewed by Siren Radio ahead of her Inaugural lecture Boon or Burden? The implications for us all of an ageing society.
The School of Health and Social Care will be hosting the next Professorial Inaugural Lecture on Wednesday 1st November 2017. In this lecture Professor Mo Ray will speak on: Boon or Burden? The implications for us all of an ageing society. For more information see the workshops and events tab
On Friday the 29th September Professor Mo Ray and Lissie Wilkins, a co researcher on the project, gave 2 presentations at the Lights Expo at the University of Lincoln. These presentations illuminated the ethical dimensions of self-funded care by bringing older people’s experiences to the fore, and examining the views of care services’ commissioners and family/friends who…
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The Ageing of British Gerontology is a two-year (2015-17) Leverhulme-funded project with the aim of critically examining the ways in which gerontological knowledge has developed and changed over the past 40 years. The research team comprises Prof. Miriam Bernard and Dr Jackie Reynolds from Keele, and Prof. Mo Ray from University of Lincoln. It…
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HARG conducted a 12 month real time service evaluation of NHS Lincolnshire’s four Clinical Commissioning Group (CCGs), Phase Two Integrated Neighbourhood Team (NT) sites. The research was carried out between August 2016 and June 2017. It was informed by a realist methodology. Research was undertaken with participants who were involved in NTs in Gainsborough, Sleaford,…
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