Paper from our PhD student Hilary Shepherd @vivensa.bsky.social "The association between multiple long-term conditions & dementia". It found that existing MLTC increased risk of dementia for people in England & got worse with younger age at onset. alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Great workshop yesterday with our community partners, the Greater Manchester Older People's Network. With them, we held a listening session to gain lived experience insights into what matters for healthy ageing.

Coming soon: a new Shared Care resource from our collaborators at Together in Dementia Everyday (tide) 🎉 Co-created with family carers and care home staff, it builds on tide's research into carers' experiences when the person they have looked after moves into residential care. tinyurl.com/mr2dmwje

📢New paper from our team-"Disparities in the use of remote general practice consultations: learning from the COVID-19 pandemic, an analysis of 19 million electronic health records using OpenSAFELY" here: bit.ly/3KrjpKA & read more about our research project here: www.hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2024/06/30/d...

📢Please come along to our next free webinar on ‘Longer Working Lives – exploring rising state pension age on health and wellbeing inequalities in later life’, on Wednesday 17th December, 12pm–1pm. For more information and to register follow this link: www.hapru.nihr.ac.uk/category/upc...

📢 New publication! Patience Kunonga and team discuss the development of the Kunonga framework for operationalising approaches to health inequality and/or inequity evidence syntheses in BMC Public Health. Read it here: bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Great to join @nihrhapru.bsky.social to co-host yesterday's webinar on shaping the future for brain health. Weren't able to join us? The recording is now available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkdi... @hdemnitzking.bsky.social

Thanks to everyone who came along to our webinar today (co-hosted with @denpru-qm.bsky.social)"Shaping the future for brain health, dementia prevention & future care needs including quality & measurement". YouTube video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkdi... & events info: www.hapru.nihr.ac.uk/events/

Join us on Wednesday, 19 November 12pm - 1pm for a free webinar with @denpru-qm.bsky.social on "Shaping the future for brain health, dementia prevention and future care needs, including quality and measurement". Find out more and register here: tinyurl.com/y3nzw3c4

📢 Article from 1 of our PhD students (with @vivensa.bsky.social) European Review of Aging & Physical Activity."How can we encourage engagement in physical activity among older adults in Chinese diasporas?Mixed methods evidence synthesis using the COM-B model" eurapa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

At @commonshealth.bsky.social today, I asked @nihrhapru.bsky.social's Prof Cris Todd about exercise to prevent frailty in older people. Exercises like tai chi and yoga were common ways to keep older people exercising, but these successful programs often disappear when the initial funding dries up.

Join us on Wednesday, 19 November for a webinar with @nihrhapru.bsky.social focused on brain health, prevention & future care needs. Dr Harriet Demnitz-King and Prof Naaheed Mukadam will present their work from the #denpruQM prevention theme. Find out more and register here: tinyurl.com/y3nzw3c4

Publication from one of our jointly funded PhD students (with @vivensa.bsky.social): "Culturally appropriate physical activity promotion strategy package among older Chinese adults in the UK: a feasibility randomised control trial protocol". pilotfeasibilitystudies.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

📢New publication from one of our jointly funded PhD students (with the Vivensa Foundation): "Exploring the acceptability of engaging in physical activity amongst older adults living in socioeconomically deprived areas after the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study". doi.org/10.1186/s128...

If you missed our webinar today on "What works to promote active ageing", you can watch the YouTube video here: youtube.com/watch?v=TJPq... and read more about the research project here: hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2024/07/30/p...

Join us tomorrow for a free webinar 12-1pm - "What works to promote active ageing: reviewing the evidence for reducing inequalities in physical activity". Register here: bit.ly/4n1XWWA. Read more about the research project: hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2024/07/30/p...

🚀 We’ve launched our official LinkedIn page for the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Healthy Ageing (HAPRU)! Follow us over on LinkedIn for updates on our latest research, publications, events, and more. 🔗 www.linkedin.com/company/nihr... #HealthyAgeing #NIHR #PolicyResearch #HAPRU #LinkedInLaunch

📢New blog from our team: "Getting active to support healthy ageing: what works to support disadvantaged communities?" bit.ly/4pQZQel. Also, register for our free webinar taking place via Teams on 15.10.25 - "What works to promote active ageing" bit.ly/4n1XWWA

Great to see Abodunrin Aminu and Katie Davies representing HAPRU at #WONCA2025 in Lisbon, with their poster, 'Disparities in the use of remote general practice consultations: learning from the COVID-19 pandemic, an analysis of 19 million electronic health records' @WoncaWorld 🔗 tinyurl.com/3j4c69dr

Join us for a free webinar on 15th October 12-1pm - "What works to promote active ageing: reviewing the evidence for reducing inequalities in physical activity'. Register: bit.ly/4n1XWWA. Read more about the research project: hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2024/07/30/p...

Join us on 19 November for a joint webinar with the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Healthy Ageing focused on brain health, prevention & future care needs. @hdemnitzking.bsky.social and Prof Naaheed Mukadam will present their #denpruQM work. More info ⬇️ tinyurl.com/y3nzw3c4 @nihrhapru.bsky.social

📢New publication from our team: "The meaning of ‘quality’ of homecare for older people: a scoping review" bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

‘How do we know if HSR impacts on policy?’ - a great workshop this morning led by @annetteboaz.bsky.social. The workshop was full of ideas of how to do things differently with fantastic engagement in the room! #HSRUK2025 @barbarahanratty.bsky.social

Today our NIHR HAPRU Director @barbarahanratty.bsky.social contributed to the HSR UK Conference 2025 opening plenary panel, "The NHS Ten Year Plan: How might health services research respond?" #HSRUK2025

Team HAPRU were delighted to showcase their work, enjoy insightful presentations and engage with colleagues at the British Society of Gerontology 54th Annual Conference at the University of Surrey this week! #bsg2025

📢New blog from our team: "Who gets to age healthily? New research shows frailty-free years are not shared equally in England". You can read it here: hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2025/05/12/w... and find the related @biomedcentral.bsky.social publication here: bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

New paper by one of our jointly funded PhD candidates with @vivensa.bsky.social - Schenelle Dlima @schenelled.bsky.social 'Frailty indices based on routinely collected data: a scoping review'. You can read it here: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢New blog from our team 'Unequal Care at the End of Life: What the Evidence Tells Us', where our Research Associate & PhD candidate Patience Kunonga talks about her work on ethnic inequalities in palliative care prescribing in high-income countries. Read it here: www.hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2025/05/07/u...

📢New paper from one of our PhD students, Patience Kunonga, published in BMC Palliative Care. 'Ethnic inequalities in palliative care prescribing in high income countries'. You can read it here: bmcpalliatcare.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Check out this new podcast from Lancet Healthy Longevity and our very own Dr Andrew Kingston - talking about health inequalities. Listen here: buzzsprout.com/1746618/epis... Full paper here: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢New blog from our team: 'Bridging the Digital Gap: Making Healthcare More Accessible for Older Minoritised Adults' Read it in full here: www.hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2025/03/20/b...

📢New article from our team: 'Area-level socioeconomic inequalities in activities of daily living disability-free life expectancy in England: a modelling study' Read it in full here: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Don't miss our free webinar tomorrow - "Promoting healthy ageing: inclusive approaches to physical activity for older adults" - all are welcome! Register here: hapru.nihr.ac.uk/category/upc... -

📢New blog from our team: 'Creating social care that works for older people'. Read it in full here: www.hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2025/03/13/c...

📢New article from our team: 'Differences in the risk of frailty based on care receipt, unmet care needs and socio-economic inequalities' published in the Journal of Frailty and Aging. Read it in full here: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢Check out our new blog: "Improving methods for studying Health Inequality and Inequity in evidence synthesis". Read more about the research and find the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology article here: www.hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2025/03/06/i...

📢New report: "Exploring the content of a minimum dataset for homecare" - you can find it here (& read more about our research project): www.hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2024/07/30/p...

📢Check out our new blog: "Which unmet social care needs have the biggest impact on healthy ageing?" bit.ly/3XmgLc9. Read more about our research project and find the BMJ Open article here:

Check out our very own Prof Jane McDermott presenting at a seminar on 11 Feb: “Translating evidence for policymakers: strategies, lessons and resources from the NIHR Healthy Ageing Policy Research Unit”. Slides can be found here: zenodo.org/records/1488... and the recording is here: bit.ly/4gUXHZu

Please come along to our free webinar on 19 March - "Promoting healthy ageing: inclusive approaches to physical activity for older adults" hapru.nihr.ac.uk/category/upc... - all are welcome!

See our new article @jmirpub.bsky.social formative.jmir.org/2024/1/e57580 Experiences & Views of Older Adults of South Asian, Black African & Caribbean Backgrounds About the Digitalization of Primary Care Services Since the COVID-19 Pandemic. Digital Health for All: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE4Q...

If you missed our webinar last week on "New insights and perspectives on multiple long-term conditions – from global to local" - you can catch up with the video here: youtu.be/QexM3HrsXi0. Future events publicised here: www.hapru.nihr.ac.uk/category/upc...

All are welcome to come along to our next webinar on 12.02.25: 'New insights & perspectives on multiple long term conditions - from global to local'. More details here: hapru.nihr.ac.uk/category/upc... This is part of a special series showcasing the work of some of our joint PhD students

📢New paper - "Experiences and views of older adults of South Asian, Black African and Caribbean backgrounds about the digitalisation of primary care services since the Covid-19 pandemic" formative.jmir.org/2024/1/e57580 Read more here: hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2024/06/30/d...

📢Please read our new report from our team on the meaning of 'quality' of homecare for older people: documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx... - and find out more about our project including a recording of a recent webinar here: www.hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2024/08/23/q...

Our new website is now live! 🎉 Explore our latest research, project outputs and find out about our events. Visit us at www.hapru.nihr.ac.uk and let us know what you think! Stay connected with us: X: @NIHRHAPRU (x.com/NIHRHAPRU) YouTube: www.youtube.com/@NIHRHAPRU #HAPRU #Research #NewWebsite #NIHR