Improving How Physical Activity is Assessed in Primary Care: A Data Analysis and Expert Informed Review and Consultation Investigating the use of GPPAQ (General Practice Physical Activity Questionnaire)

📢Our next webinar is on 6th May: "Improving how physical activity is assessed in primary care" (held in collaboration with the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Healthy Weight). Registration page can be found here: bit.ly/4sBm83U and you can read more about our joint research project here: bit.ly/3OFsvFA

HAPRU Webinar: Inequalities in later life (08.04.26) YouTube video by Healthy Ageing NIHR Policy Research Unit

If you missed our webinar today on "Inequalities in later life" (co-hosted with the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Dementia and Neurodegeneration, Exeter), you can watch the video on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgel.... You can sign up for future events here: www.hapru.nihr.ac.uk/events/

Congratulations to our Director @barbarahanratty.bsky.social, on her recent appointment as an #NIHR Senior Investigator - joining a stellar group of fellow NIHR Senior Investigators within HAPRU, @profchristodd.bsky.social, Martin Knapp & Peter Bower 👏👏👏👏
Read more: www.nihr.ac.uk/news/new-nih...

📢Come along to our free Webinar next week (08.04.26, 12-1pm) on "Inequalities in Later Life" together with @denpruexeter.bsky.social
Register here: bit.ly/3PCV1ba
Talks on:
- Preferences for new models of social care
- Dementia care after diagnosis
- Bridging the Digital Divide in UK Primary Care

Preferences for Models of Care for Older People With High Care Needs: Survey of People Aged 50 years and Over in England Introduction The rising number of older adults, many with long-term conditions or limitations in activities of daily living, is expected to increase demand for social care services and for housing o...

We are pleased to share a new publication by our team, led by Magdalena Walbaum "Preferences for Models of Care for Older People With High Care Needs: Survey of People Aged 50 years and Over in England". You can read the article here: bit.ly/4v01kpe & read more about the project here: bit.ly/412f7hq

Interrupting sedentary behaviour when working from home: a qualitative exploration of older desk-based employees - BMC Public Health BMC Public Health - Desk-based employees sit for large amounts of their day, exposing them to the health risks associated with sedentary behaviour (SB). The number of older workers...

Congratulations to our jointly funded (with the @vivensa.bsky.social Vivensa Foundation) PhD student Lily Mott who successfully defended her PhD recently. You can read her most recent journal article "Interrupting sedentary behaviour when working from home" here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Finishing strong: Navigating the final stretch of a PhD - Vivensa Foundation What does it take to finish a PhD? Schenelle Dlima (University of Manchester) offers her view and tips about navigating the final stretch.

Congratulations to our jointly funded with @vivensa.bsky.social PhD student Schenelle Dlima who successfully defended her PhD on frailty. Find out more about her PhD journey in an article "Finishing strong: Navigating the final stretch of a PhD" on the Vivensa Foundation website here: bit.ly/3NJaZzN

Inequalities in Later Life (08.04.26) Webinar looking at inequalities in later life

📢Interested in finding out about inequalities in later life including preferences for new models of care, care utilisation & bridging the digital divide?

Join the FREE WEBINAR in collaboration with @nihrhapru.bsky.social

Wednesday 8th April 2026: 12pm – 1pm
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📢Come to our free Webinar (08.04.26, 12-1pm) "Inequalities in Later Life", together with @denpruexeter.bsky.social. Register: www.hapru.nihr.ac.uk/category/upc...
Talks on:
- Preferences for new models of social care
- Care Utilisation in Dementia:
- Bridging the Digital Divide in UK Primary Care

📢It's not too late to register for our free webinar on ‘Longer Working Lives–exploring rising state pension age on health and wellbeing inequalities in later life’, on Wednesday 25 February, 12pm–1pm. For more information and to register, please follow this link: www.hapru.nihr.ac.uk/category/upc...

New blog post💥

Hear from Linda Clare, Director of DeNPRU Exeter, on living alone with dementia as an inequality.

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Huge thanks to the refreshed @newcastleuni.bsky.social Centre for Ageing (NUAGE) for hosting an excellent event yesterday- Celebrating Research Excellence in Ageing at Newcastle University: Transforming Ageing Together. HAPRU Director @barbarahanratty.bsky.social was delighted to speak at the event.

📢Please come along to our next free webinar on ‘Longer Working Lives – exploring rising state pension age on health and wellbeing inequalities in later life’, on Wednesday 25th February, 12pm–1pm. For more information and to register, please follow this link: www.hapru.nihr.ac.uk/category/upc...

Bridging the Digital Divide in UK Primary Care: What 19 million Records Tell Us About Remote GP Consultations during the COVID-19 pandemic Looking at a large health dataset to see what it might tell us about remove GP consultations during the pandemic

📢New blog from our team: "Bridging the Digital Divide in UK Primary Care: What 19 million Records Tell Us About Remote GP Consultations during the COVID-19 pandemic" tinyurl.com/bddrkp8e. Read more about the research project here: www.hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2024/06/30/d...

The association between multiple long‐term conditions and dementia: A UK cohort study INTRODUCTION Studies examining the risk of dementia in people with multimorbidity are commonly conducted in research cohorts or outside the UK. Multimorbidity has historically been associated with a...

Paper from our PhD student Hilary Shepherd @vivensa.bsky.social "The association between multiple long-term conditions & dementia". It found that existing MLTC increased risk of dementia for people in England & got worse with younger age at onset. alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Great workshop yesterday with our community partners, the
Greater Manchester Older People's Network. With them, we held a listening session to gain lived experience insights into what matters for healthy ageing.

Making Shared Care a Reality – Resource Launch As we move into the next phase of the “Shared Care” initiative, we are proud to announce the official launch of the Making Shared Care a Reality – Resource for Care Home Staff.

Coming soon: a new Shared Care resource from our collaborators at Together in Dementia Everyday (tide) 🎉

Co-created with family carers and care home staff, it builds on tide's research into carers' experiences when the person they have looked after moves into residential care.

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Digitalisation of health and social care services for older adults Advancing understanding of how health and care services have been digitalised during the COVID-19 pandemic.

📢New paper from our team-"Disparities in the use of remote general practice consultations: learning from the COVID-19 pandemic, an analysis of 19 million electronic health records using OpenSAFELY" here: bit.ly/3KrjpKA & read more about our research project here: www.hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2024/06/30/d...

📢Please come along to our next free webinar on ‘Longer Working Lives – exploring rising state pension age on health and wellbeing inequalities in later life’, on Wednesday 17th December, 12pm–1pm. For more information and to register follow this link: www.hapru.nihr.ac.uk/category/upc...

Development of the Kunonga framework for operationalising approaches to health inequality and/or inequity evidence syntheses - BMC Public Health BMC Public Health - Health inequalities and inequities are shaped by intersecting social determinants and cumulative life-course experiences. However, conventional evidence synthesis methods often...

📢 New publication!
Patience Kunonga and team discuss the development of the Kunonga framework for operationalising approaches to health inequality and/or inequity evidence syntheses in BMC Public Health.
Read it here:
bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Great to join @nihrhapru.bsky.social to co-host yesterday's webinar on shaping the future for brain health.

Weren't able to join us? The recording is now available on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkdi...

@hdemnitzking.bsky.social

Thanks to everyone who came along to our webinar today (co-hosted with @denpru-qm.bsky.social)"Shaping the future for brain health, dementia prevention & future care needs including quality & measurement". YouTube video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkdi... & events info: www.hapru.nihr.ac.uk/events/

Join us on Wednesday, 19 November 12pm - 1pm for a free webinar with @denpru-qm.bsky.social on "Shaping the future for brain health, dementia prevention and future care needs, including quality and measurement". Find out more and register here: tinyurl.com/y3nzw3c4

📢 Article from 1 of our PhD students (with @vivensa.bsky.social) European Review of Aging & Physical Activity."How can we encourage engagement in physical activity among older adults in Chinese diasporas?Mixed methods evidence synthesis using the COM-B model" eurapa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

At @commonshealth.bsky.social today, I asked @nihrhapru.bsky.social's Prof Cris Todd about exercise to prevent frailty in older people.

Exercises like tai chi and yoga were common ways to keep older people exercising, but these successful programs often disappear when the initial funding dries up.

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Join us on Wednesday, 19 November for a webinar with @nihrhapru.bsky.social focused on brain health, prevention & future care needs.

Dr Harriet Demnitz-King and Prof Naaheed Mukadam will present their work from the #denpruQM prevention theme.

Find out more and register here:
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Publication from one of our jointly funded PhD students (with @vivensa.bsky.social): "Culturally appropriate physical activity promotion strategy package among older Chinese adults in the UK: a feasibility randomised control trial protocol".
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Exploring the acceptability of engaging in physical activity amongst older adults living in socioeconomically deprived areas after the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study - BMC Public Health Background Older adults from lower socioeconomic status (SES) groups have lower physical activity levels compared to those from higher SES groups. During the COVID-19 pandemic, these disparities in ph...

📢New publication from one of our jointly funded PhD students (with the Vivensa Foundation): "Exploring the acceptability of engaging in physical activity amongst older adults living in socioeconomically deprived areas after the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study". doi.org/10.1186/s128...

If you missed our webinar today on "What works to promote active ageing", you can watch the YouTube video here: youtube.com/watch?v=TJPq... and read more about the research project here: hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2024/07/30/p...

Join us tomorrow for a free webinar 12-1pm - "What works to promote active ageing: reviewing the evidence for reducing inequalities in physical activity". Register here: bit.ly/4n1XWWA. Read more about the research project: hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2024/07/30/p...