Transcript Voice North: Involving the public to help us understand

VOICE North: the North East
Regional Research and
Engagement Panel
Dr Lynne Corner
Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle
University
Years Ahead: the North East Regional
Forum on Ageing
January 2010
Demographic change in the NE
North East Population by Age Group - 2004 & 2029
2004 Estimated
2029 Projected
Net Difference
85+
80-84
75-79
70-74
Population 5-year Age Bands
65-69
60-64
55-59
50-54
45-49
40-44
35-39
30-34
25-29
20-24
15-19
10-14
5-9
0-4
-200,000
-150,000
-100,000
-50,000
0
Population Number
50,000
100,000
150,000
200,000
Source: Office for National Statistics
Beating the Biological Clock
Biological ‘Wrong’ lifestyle
•Excess calorie intake
Ageing
•High saturated fats
•Low micro-nutrients
•Too little exercise
•Poor glucose tolerance
•Stress
•Smoking
‘Right’ lifestyle
•Energy balance
•Maintain glucose sensitivity
•Low saturated fats
•Rich micro-nutrient diet
•High exercise level
•Low to moderate stress
Chronological Ageing
VOICE North:
Valuing Our Intellectual Capital
and Experience
• Research task group
• harnessing the public’s ideas, experience,
expectations and aspirations
• large panel of people: n = 600 +
• Age 18+
Involving the public to help us
understand:
Conditions - Parkinsons, dementia etc.
Nutrition
Lifestyle
Environment
Socioeconomic status
Attitude
Involvement or engagement?
• Majority participants in research studies
• Critique research proposals, lay
summaries
• Focus groups, workshops and interviews
• User-led research
• Partnerships to develop research ideas
VOICE North supported
projects…
• ESF: Creative strategies for workforce
development
• Inclusive design
• EPSRC: SIDE: social inclusion through
the digital economy
• MRC: Livewell
• Nutrition
• Later Life RAG: attitudes to dementia
National Dementia
Strategy 2009
Living Well
With Dementia
Raising awareness
and understanding
O1 public information campaign
Living well with
dementia
Early
diagnosis
and support
O2 memory services
O3 information for people with dementia and carers
O4 continuity of support for people with dementia and carers
O5 peer support for people with dementia and carers
O6 improved community personal support
O7 implementing carer’s strategy for people with dementia
O8 improved care in general hospitals
O9 improved intermediate care for dementia
O10 housing including telecare
O11 improved care home care
O12 improved EOLC
making the change
O13 workforce competencies, development and training
O14 joint local commissioning strategy and world class commissioning
O15 performance monitoring and evaluation including inspection
O16 research
Regional Dementia Group
Voluntary
Organisations
People with
Dementia
Academic/
Universities
Local
Authority
Family
Carers
Regional
Development
Group
Housing
Health Care
Nursing/
Residential
Care
Social Care
Strategic
Health
Authority
National Dementia Strategy and
the North East
• What do we do well?
• What, and where, are our areas of need?
• What are our future priorities?
• Where should we target new developments?
Group outputs
Regional statistics
http://www.dhcarenetworks.
org.uk/Dementia/Regions/
NorthEast/
Dementia NE: A Demographic Profile
Between 2008- 2025
• 49% increase in people with late onset dementia
(national 51%)
• 5% increase in people with early onset dementia
(national 15%)
• 60% increase in no of people with dementia who
need care home places
• By 2025, 50% people with dementia will be >85
Voice North: Involving the public
to help us understand:
• How we age?
• Why we age?
• How can we make it better?
Dr Lynne Corner
Institute for Ageing and Health,
Newcastle University
www.ncl.ac.uk/iah
0191 248 1353