The Reimagining Collective Forms of Day Care for Older People project is based in the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol. The team is lead by Professor Ailsa Cameron, based at the Centre for Research in Health and Social Care.
Professor Ailsa Cameron – Professor of Health and Social Care, School for Policy Studies
Ailsa is Principle Investigator on the project. Ailsa’s research interests focus on the integration of services, particularly housing, social care and health, and professional and volunteer roles in social care.
Relevant publications:
Cameron AM, Johnson EK, Evans S (2020) Older people’s perspectives on living in integrated housing and care settings: the case of extra care housing. Journal of Integrated Care. 28(3)
Cameron AM, Johnson EK, Willis, PB, Lloyd, L, Smith, R. (2020) Exploring the role of volunteers in social care for older adults. Quality in Ageing and Older Adults 21(2)129-139
Cameron AM, Johnson EK, Evans S, Lloyd, L, Darton, R. Smith, R. Porteus, J*. Atkinson. (2020) ‘You have got to stick to your times’: Care workers and managers’ experiences of working in extra care housing. Health and Social Care in the Community 28:396–403
Dr Paul Willis – Associate Professor in Social Work and Gerontology, School for Policy Studies
Paul Willis is a researcher and lecturer in social work and adult social care with a special interest in social inclusion and ageing. His research interests include: inclusive housing provision for older people; older men’s experiences of loneliness and social isolation; sexuality, care and ageing; trans ageing and gender identity; inclusive care provision for diverse groups of older people; and equality measures in organisations. Paul is a Senior Fellow of the NIHR School for Social Care Research.
Relevant publications:
Willis, P., Lloyd, L., Hammond, J., Milne, A., Nelson-Becker, H., Perry, E., Ray, M., Richards, S., Tanner, D. (2021) Casting Light on the Distinctive Contribution of Social Work in Multidisciplinary Teams for Older People, The British Journal of Social Work, Online first 4th February 2021: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcab004
Willis, P, Dobbs, C, Evans, E, Raithby, M, Bishop, J‐A. (2020). Reluctant educators and self‐advocates: Older trans adults’ experiences of health‐care services and practitioners in seeking gender‐affirming services. Health Expectations, 23: 1231– 1240. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13104
Willis, P., Vickery., A. & Jessiman, T. (2020). Loneliness, social dislocation and invisibility experienced by older men who are single or living alone: accounting for differences across sexual identity and social context. Ageing and Society. Online first 27th July 2020: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X20000914
Dr Demi Patsios – Senior Lecturer, School for Policy Studies
Demi is a researcher on the project and is taking the lead in analysing trends over time in the use and provision of day services and the relationship between use of day services and personal wellbeing outcomes. His research looks into the effects of an ageing population on policy development and on the capacity of health and social care systems to respond to these needs. He has also conducted research into poverty and social exclusion among older people, living standards, and linkages between formal and informal sources of support for older people living in the community.
Relevant publications:
Patsios, D & Pomati, M. (2018) ‘The distribution and dynamics of economic and social wellbeing in the UK: An analysis of the recession using multidimensional indicators of living standards (MILS)’. School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol.
Patsios, D. (2017) ‘Improvement for some: poverty and social exclusion among older people and pensioners’. in: Esther Dermott, Gill Main (eds) Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK: Volume 1 – The nature and extent of the problem. Policy Press, Bristol, pp. 61-94
Dr Joanna Thorn – Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School
Joanna is a health economist based in Bristol Medical School. Her research interests lie in methodology for improving resource-use measurement and, in particular, ensuring that social care is taken into account in economic evaluations. She is currently leading a project to develop a social care resource-use questionnaire. In this project, she will be exploring the cost implications of re-imagined day care for older people.
Relevant publications:
Janssen LMM, Drost RMWA, Paulus ATG, Garfield K, Hollingworth W, Noble S, Thorn JC, Pokhilenko I and Evers SMAA (2021) ‘Aspects and Challenges of Resource Use Measurement in Health Economics: Towards a Comprehensive Measurement Framework’ PharmacoEconomics (accepted)
Thorn J, Man M-S, Chaplin K, Bower P, Brookes S, Gaunt D, Fitzpatrick B, Gardner C, Guthrie B and Hollinghurst S (2020) ‘Cost-effectiveness of a patient-centred approach to managing multimorbidity in primary care: a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial’, BMJ Open, 10(1)
Professor Karen West – Professor of Social Policy and Ageing, School for Policy Studies
Karen West is a professor of Social Policy and Ageing in the School for Policy Studies. Her research interests include: housing and care environments, including extra care and new and emerging forms of collaborative housing that offer high levels of social contact and mutual aid; bereavement, death and dying and how to create supportive, compassionate communities that can enable people to live well to the end.
Laura Bennett – Senior Research Associate, School for Policy Studies
Laura is a researcher on the project. Her research interests include community based health and care services, loneliness and wellbeing. Laura’s previous experience includes research roles at The King’s Fund and Wales Centre for Public Policy, as well as experience working in the NHS and at CQC. Laura holds a BSc (2:1) in Social Policy from the University of Bristol and an MSc in Social Research from the University of London (Birkbeck).
Relevant publications:
Havers R, Durrant H and Bennett L (2021) The role of communities and the use of technology in mitigating loneliness during the Coronavirus pandemic, Wales Centre for Public Policy
Bennett L, Honeyman M, and Bottery S (2018) New models of home care, London: The King’s Fund
Charles A, Ham C, Baird B, Alderwick H, Bennett L (2018). Reimagining community services: making the most of our assets, London: The King’s Fund.
Dr Simon D Hankins – Chief Executive Officer, BS3 Community Development (charity)
Simon spent the first 17 years of his career heading-up research and development teams in three speciality fertiliser companies; the first a very small niche products company based in the UK; the second for a huge multi-national fertiliser company based in Norway and the last a SME in Canada. He moved to the charitable sector in 2005 taking the post of CEO at a small counselling charity in Stoke-on-Trent and joined BS3 Community Development in 2011. BS3 Community Development exists to improve the wellbeing, health and lives of the people within the BS3 postcode area of south Bristol; as such, much of our work is focused on prevention and early intervention of issues; however, we also work with those who have issues that they find hard to cope with, and have little or no support or help.
Simon holds a 2(1) honours degree in Applied Biology from the University of Bath and a D.Phil (PhD) in Plant Sciences from Oxford University.
Ruth Green – Community Development Manager, BS3 Community
Ruth is Community Development manager at BS3 Community Development. Ruth and her team work in with and for the community, supporting local residents and groups with the aim to improve health, wellbeing and happiness and create a sense of belonging – BS3 have a particular focus on supporting older people and many of the projects BS3 Community deliver (and/or partner and/or support) seek to reduce social isolation and loneliness.
Sonia Davies – Strategic Commissioning Manager, Bristol City Council
Sonia is an advisory member on the project. She works in Adult Social Care and has a passion for representing the voice of people with lived experience in all her work. She is a Board member of Bristol Ageing Better, and has worked with day services in different roles over a number of years.