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Healthy Ageing in Residential Places (HARP)

Project Details

Description

Healthy Ageing in Residential; Places (the HARP project) is an international project funded through the ESRC (ESRC grant ES/K010964/1) by the european Research Area on Ageing programme. HARP is nested within a larger research project - Reimagining Long Term Residential Care, a Canadian SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiative, based in York University, Toronto.

Layman's description

The HARP study aims to identify what makes a care home a good place in which to live or to work and to identify how the health and wellbeing of staff and residents can be promoted. A broad view of health is used, which includes physical, mental, social and spiritual asepct. .

Key findings

field work is currently being carried out in England and Wales, Sweden, Norway and Canada.
AcronymHARP
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date1/03/13 → 1/10/15

Research Groups and Themes

  • SPS Centre for Research in Health and Social Care
  • SPS Health Social Care and Disability Research Centre

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  • Job Autonomy of Long-Term Residential Care Assistive Personnel: A Six Country Comparison

    Lloyd, L., Jacobsen, F. F., Day, S., Laxer, K., Goldmann, M., Szhebehely, M., Choiniere, J. A. & Vaillancourt Rosenau, P., Mar 2018, In: Ageing International. 43, 1, p. 4-19 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

    14 Citations (Scopus)
  • Comparing Nursing Home Assistive Personnel in Five Countries

    Laxer, K., Jacobsen, F. F., Goldmann, M., Day, S., Choiniere, J. & Vaillancourt Rosenau7, P., 1 Mar 2016, In: Ageing International. 41, 1, p. 62-78 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review

    26 Citations (Scopus)
  • Continuity, change and care: a sense of self in a residential care home

    Lloyd, L., Banerjee, A., Lanoix, M., Chivers, S., Braedly, S. & Mekki, T. E., Jul 2016, Communities in later life: engaging with diversity..

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Contribution (Conference Proceeding)