{"id":27,"date":"2012-05-04T20:21:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T19:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/props\/?p=27"},"modified":"2012-05-09T14:50:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T13:50:50","slug":"welcome-to-props","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/prop\/2012\/05\/04\/welcome-to-props\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to PROP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Practitioner research: older people<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As western societies experience an aging population, improving, or even maintaining, the quality of health and social care of older people is a significant issue. \u00a0Reflecting wider trends, in Scotland by 2031 the number of people aged 65 and over is projected to be 58% higher than in 2004. \u00a0This represents a significant challenge to health and social care services, as well as to individuals providing care to relatives or friends.<\/p>\n<p>This project brings together a team of academics, policy-makers, practitioners, older people accessing health and social care provision, and specialists in evidence-use and knowledge media. \u00a0Collectively we will draw together existing evidence, generate new evidence and improve the use of this evidence to improve the lives of older people across Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>One of the key outputs of the project will be the delivery of a practitioner research programme, through which practitioners (and potentially older people receiving support) will be supported to undertake small-scale research projects. NHS Lothian, Scottish Care, West Lothian Council, Glasgow City Council and Alzheimer Scotland are partners in the project, and will release up to 3 members of staff each to participate in the practitioner research programme.<\/p>\n<p>The project is being led by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crfr.ac.uk\/\">CRFR<\/a> (University of Edinburgh) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iriss.org.uk\/\">IRISS<\/a> (Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Practitioner research: older people As western societies experience an aging population, improving, or even maintaining, the quality of health and social care of older people is a significant issue. \u00a0Reflecting wider trends, in Scotland by 2031 the number of people aged 65 and over is projected to be 58% higher than in 2004. \u00a0This represents &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/prop\/2012\/05\/04\/welcome-to-props\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome to PROP<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/prop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/prop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/prop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/prop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/prop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/prop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/prop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/prop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/prop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}