Intergenerational programmes in community-based support initiatives for people living with dementia – understanding the impacts and outcomes

About the Project

The project will seek to understand the impacts, challenges, successes, barriers, sustainability issues and best practices in community-based support initiatives for people living with dementia in Worcestershire and Herefordshire. The successful PhD candidate will be responsible for formulating the detail of this project, the methodology and methods with guidance by the Supervision team. This project will build on the Association for Dementia Studies research within Meeting Centres. It also anticipated that the project would adopt a mixed-methods approach to address the evidence gaps and enable people living with dementia, children / young people, providers of community-based support initiatives and educators to be part of the codesign of the research. Investigating the impacts, both positive and negative, on both age groups as well as care and education staff will be important. Other factors to consider are sustainability, cost effectiveness, outcomes for carers and impact in terms of reducing ageist and stereotypical views of a person living with dementia.

Supervisory Team

• Director of Studies: Dr Julie Barrett, Association for Dementia Studies, School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Worcester.
• Supervisors: Professor Alison Kington, Institute of Education, University of Worcester.
• Research Group: Association for Dementia Studies