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— Working with existing older people's groups | | Author(s) | Josie Tetley, Jacqueline H Watts, Jill Reynolds |
| Corporate Author | Centre for Policy on Ageing - CPA; Centre for Ageing and Biographical Studies (CABS), Open University |
| Publisher | Centre for Policy on Ageing - CPA, London, 2013 |
| Pages | 72 pp (The representation of older people in ageing research series, no 11) |
| Source | Central Books, 50 Freshwater Road, Chadwell Heath, Dagenham, RM8 1RX. |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Research ; Participation ; Methodology ; Conference proceedings. |
| Annotation | The rewards of working with enthusiastic and engaged older people as volunteer researchers, keen to learn new skills and extend their knowledge, are many and varied. There are also a number of challenges, especially in regard to ethical conduct, in ensuring the non-exploitative participation of older people as volunteer researchers. The papers in this volume illustrate how working with older people's organisations can enhance the capacity of older people in different ways. Each of the projects featured demonstrate how working with existing organisations and older people to develop and undertake social research is a complex process that requires sensitivity, flexibility and clarity of purpose on the part of the 'professional' researcher or research team. Each paper highlights the different ways in which organisations can provide researchers with easy, but potentially selective, access to large numbers of older people. The context of each study is different, and the tasks undertaken by the participants are diverse. Older people contribute variously to project design, data collection and the dissemination of findings. One project is about ageism and age discrimination in everyday life. The last two papers demonstrate the value of joint participation in European research: one on a lifelong learning project, the other working with a local older people's forum on a research project. A theme throughout all the accounts is the older people's sense of commitment to this work. The papers are revisions of those first presented at a Centre for Policy on Ageing (CPA) and Open University Centre for Ageing and Biographical Studies (CABS) seminar in May 2008. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130906001 B |
| Classmark | BG: 3A: TMB: 3D: 6M |
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