Assessing whether information routinely collected by (some) care homes could contribute to surveillance of COVID-19 infections in these settings.
Category: Past projects
Identifying clinical frailty in younger groups
Producing research into the identification of frailty in younger populations.
Remotely delivered interventions to reduce social isolation and loneliness
Exploring various remote interventions to see what is effective at combatting loneliness in older adults.
Technology for strength and balance
Understanding the evidence that strength and balance exercises can be delivered remotely to older people using digital media.
Clinical Frailty Scale in intensive and critical care settings
Identifying evidence about the use of the CFS in intensive and critical care settings, or as a tool to aid decision making for critical care, for those aged under 65 years.
Future trends in disability in old age
Producing up-to-date projections of disability, and the associated costs for social care, in old age.
Digital inclusion of older adults and implications for health and social care
Aiming to inform policy, best practice and identify gaps in our knowledge within digital technologies, to help correct health inequalities.
International learning for health and care workforce
Exploring how the health and care workforce and health and social care system can learn from international experience of COVID-19.
Digital inclusion of older populations
The purpose of our review was to understand how much digital technologies can support older adults to access health and care services.
Interventions aimed at reducing or preventing loneliness and/or social isolation
A review focusing on older people identified as being, or at risk of being, socially isolated and/or lonely, including interventions aimed at reducing or preventing loneliness and/or social isolation.
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