Turning the co-production corner : methodological reflections from an action research project to promote LGBT inclusion in care homes for older people
Willis, Paul and Almack, Katharyn and Hafford-Letchfield, Trish and Simpson, Paul and Billings, Barbara and Mall, Naresh (2018) Turning the co-production corner : methodological reflections from an action research project to promote LGBT inclusion in care homes for older people. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15 (4). e695. ISSN 1660-4601 (https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15040695)
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Abstract
Background: Older lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) residents are often invisible in long-term care settings. This article presents findings from a community-based action research project, which attempted to address this invisibility through co-produced research with LGBT community members. Particular Question: What conditions enable co-produced research to emerge in long-term residential care settings for older people? Aims of Project: To analyse outcomes and challenges of action-oriented, co-produced research in the given context. In particular, we explore how co-production as a collaborative approach to action-orientated research can emerge during the research/fieldwork process; and reflect critically on the ethics and effectiveness of this approach in advancing inclusion in context. Methods: The project was implemented across six residential care homes in England. Reflections are based on qualitative evaluation data gathered pre- and post-project, which includes 37 interviews with care home staff, managers and community advisors (two of whom are co-authors). Results and Conclusions: We discuss how the co-production turn emerged during research and evaluate how the politics of this approach helped advance inclusion—itself crucial to well-being. We argue for the value of co-produced research in instigating organizational change in older people’s care environments and of non-didactic storytelling in LGBT awareness-raising amongst staff.
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Willis, Paul, Almack, Katharyn, Hafford-Letchfield, Trish
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Item type: Article ID code: 69840 Dates: DateEvent7 April 2018Published29 March 2018AcceptedKeywords: care home policy and practice, co-produced research, LGBT older people, care home research, risk and resilience, environmental change, Communities. Classes. Races, Other systems of medicine, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Subjects: Social Sciences > Communities. Classes. Races
Medicine > Other systems of medicineDepartment: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Social Work and Social Policy > Social Work and Social Policy Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 19 Sep 2019 11:52 Last modified: 25 May 2023 10:31 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/69840