...’ participation as informal volunteers. Design/methodology/approach An ethnographic approach included participant observation of residents establishing and running projects, interviews with key informants and focus groups with older residents. Findings Older residents’ fluctuating capacities...

... in the community. Design/methodology/approach The Kirkpatrick model was used to comprehensively evaluate the training programme. The participants were 89 older adults from the city of Barcelona, with an average age of 73.1 years old. To evaluate the training programme, six instruments were administered...

...Alisa Jordan Sheth Purpose The purpose of this paper is to improve understandings of environmental influences on participation in routine and familiar activities for people with intellectual disabilities and dementia from first-person and caregiver perspectives. Design/methodology/approach...

... relational contexts (i.e. care staff and family), eight participants with a range of dementia diagnoses and care needs made and verbally communicated research-related decisions. A desire to participate was consistently conveyed across research encounters, regardless of the extent of memory problems...

...Trish Hafford-Letchfield; Peter Lavender Purpose – Achieving meaningful participation and co-production for older people in care requires radical approaches. The purpose of this paper is to explore an innovation where learning interventions were introduced into care settings and older people...

...Jane Tooke Purpose This purpose of this paper is to provide details of a project to involve people with dementia in reviewing pieces of work being undertaken by Alzheimer's Society staff. Service User Review Panels (SURPs) were developed as a way to orientate participation around the requirements...

...Tony Bayer; Win Tadd; Stefan Krajcik This paper reports the findings of 89 focus groups and 18 individual interviews (involving 391 older people in 6 European countries) that were held to explore how older people view human dignity in their lives. Participants were all aged over 60 years and 25...

...Josephine Tetley; Lorna Haynes; Maud Hawthorne; Joe Odeyemi; Jeanne Skinner; Dora Smith; Vanlis Wilson Increasing consumer consultation is a priority for those involved in health and social care research and practice, with promoting greater public participation being widely accepted as ‘a good...

... & Littlechild, 2000). Beresford (2002) has noted the tendency to present it as a ‘good thing’ pointing out, however, that it has both liberatory but also regressive potential. At the same time, Barnes (2001) has illuminated the limitations of ‘mainstream’ theory and practice in user participation...

...Gail Mountain It makes sense to involve people in the services being provided for them, with benefits to be gained for all involved. For older people their participation can aid ownership and inclusion, thus promoting citizenship, particularly on the part of those who have previously been excluded...