Healthier working lives for the care workforce
Developing careers. Promoting wellbeing.
The Innovate UK funded, Healthier Working Lives (HWL) programme assesses the challenges and opportunities for the over 50’s care workforce and is led by King's College London in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh.
The team is acting to tackle a crisis facing care workers and organisations. The adult social care sector is at a tipping point. A recurring set of issues have been rendered more intense by COVID and Brexit regulations. Demoralised experienced professionals are leaving in droves, many employees are chronically underpaid and business models are broken.
The crisis is reflected in unusually high levels of workforce turnover and vacancy rates. Many service provider owners and managers are struggling to maintain care quality levels with limited resources and increasing costs.
If you are an innovator, business leader or entrepreneur working, or seeking to become involved with the care sector, join the Healthier working lives campaign through our registration form or contact dilesh.shah@kcl.ac.uk”
Read insights from the project on the Healthier working lives blog.
Aims
- To identify ways to promote healthier working lives and ageing for older care workers – developing their careers, enhancing user continuity and promoting everyone’s wellbeing.
- To transform aspects of the care sector workforce experience and culture – making their services more agile, innovative and accessible.
- To attract and encourage professional, respected and confident workers and improve workforce planning and support.
Methods
Co-designing with users
The co-design process places our key audience at the heart of the HWL programme. The care workers themselves and their ideas to improve their industry will inform, shape and guide the development of propositions.
Workers will be deeply involved in a collaborative process with innovators and entrepreneurs in the care and healthy ageing sectors. They will explore and co-design potential solutions to the health and professional development challenges that they face daily, for example: scheduling work shifts and tasks; passporting professional development; balancing health and personal care; and addressing pronounced risks in the light of coronavirus.
Impact
The Healthier Working Lives programme will tackle head on the need for significant practical change in the care sector at the sharp end of service delivery. The primary goal is to generate and support ideas, through the co-design and adoption of innovative products and services that address challenges in the recruitment, retention and the health and well-being of older workers, particularly in the growing residential and retirement village care sectors.
Struggling supply: There are currently an estimated 120,000 vacancies and the annual turnover of staff in the sector is around 30% – 430,000 have left in the last year. A National Care Forum survey of more than 2,000 social care services revealed that 74% of providers have reported an increase in staff exits since April 2021, with half of workers leaving due to stress. The Health Foundation suggests that over 600,000 additional care workers will be required in the UK over the next decade to meet demand, in addition to the 1.5 million existing posts.
Meeting demand: The care sector is significant – worth £15.9 billion to the UK economy. As life expectancy increases, so does the proportion of older people to the total population. One in 7 people will be aged 85+ by 2040. The UK care home population is 450,000 and growing whilst the number of care home beds available for those over 85 has fallen since 2010 – a trend predicted to continue. 82% of care workers are women and 27% are aged 55+ with many of this age group working in supervisory roles.
The over 50’s frontline care workforce is ageing whilst addressing the stresses of caring in work and caring for their families and elders, operating in demanding physical and emotional conditions. This presents a challenge to the wellbeing of staff, residents, families, and communities. Continuity in staffing, recognition of the value of their work, and supporting workers to co-determine their development needs, are central to this programme.
Innovative solutions: The products and services may be initiatives, tools, processes or resources, that will require technical, design and financial support to be attractive, relevant, user-friendly and popular. The solutions will be developed through co-design and co-production to ensure care workers and providers inform, shape and guide the proposition development process.
Knowledge network: The programme will also nurture a community of innovators and intrapreneurs in the care sector through creativity, empathy, lifelong learning and peer support amongst care workers and care providers. A richer and more diverse community of practice is an important legacy that will enable the sector to accelerate change as demand increases.
Motivating care enterprises: A key strand of the he Healthier Working Lives programme is enterprise engagement, specifically identifying and motivating enterprises to grow investable propositions that will shape the future of the care sector.
The care sector is on the cusp of significant change and we are listening to the experiences of ‘Care Trailblazers’ leading that change, breaking new ground and disrupting the market. This will enable us to identify market failures and gaps, key development themes and opportunities and areas of focus for future industry development.
We'll be hearing from the leading pioneers in the care sector, exploring their ideas and understanding their approaches to develop a body of on-the-ground evidence around the key development opportunities in the sector. Find out about the Care Trailblazers shaping the future.
Work that has informed Healthier working lives for the care workforce includes:
Read our last news and see the impact of the programme on our blog.
Here you will find a wealth of current and compelling industry data and insight published by leading care sector organisations, think tanks and businesses.
Act now. If you’d like to become involved with our programme and inform our publications, register today. We want to hear about the impact you’re having!
1. UK ageing and adult social care sector policy, analysis and trends
| May 2022. Digital and Data Readiness of Care Homes for Older People in South East Scotland. Edinburgh Napier University & Advanced Care Research Centre |
Care homes for older people in south-east Scotland are largely run using paper-based management systems with 35% of care homes using an electronic care management system. |
| January 2022. Build Back Better: our plan for health and social care | UK Government |
This report outlines the UK government’s plan for specific measures to support health and adult social care in England. It also sets out areas to work with the Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive to support people from all over the UK to live more independent, healthier lives for longer. |
| December 2021. Integrating health and social care: A comparison of policy and progress across the four countries of the UK | Nuffield Trust |
The integration of health and social care has been a long-standing policy priority in each country of the UK. However, there is limited evidence these policies are delivering the results expected of them. This report looks at the impact of integration across the four countries and compares the policies and approaches each one has trialled to deliver their goals. |
| December 2021. The longevity economy | Oxford Economics |
The first Longevity Report was published in 2013. The latest update demonstrates a shift in the mix of sectors in the economy, with both health and education expanding further and new financial products arising. Such an economy has the potential to contribute to growth in gross domestic product through employment and human capital. |
| December 2021. People at the Heart of Care | UK Government |
The evidence review for adult social care reform is published alongside People at the Heart of Care. Its main purpose is to outline trends and challenges based on the current (as of 1 December 2021) adult social care system in England. |
| November 2021. State of caring 2021 | Carers UK |
This annual online survey of Carers, enables readers to learn about carers personal experience and build a picture of caring in the UK. Their 2021 survey was the largest yet and the report is based on feedback from over 8000 people who currently provide unpaid care to a friend or family member. The report shows the longer-term impacts of managing in a very difficult environment for a prolonged period of time and covers issues such as finance, health and wellbeing, the provision of support and services and the challenges of juggling multiple responsibilities. |
| November 2021. A ‘radically realistic’ vision for adult social care | The Kings Fund |
There has been a collective failure to deliver reform of adult social care in England for at least two decades. It has left a system struggling with a series of problems: an overly-stringent means test; catastrophic costs; unmet need; patchy care quality; poor workforce pay and conditions; a fragile provider market; disjointed care; and a ‘postcode lottery’ of access. |
| October 2021. The state of health care and adult social care in England 2020/21 | Care Quality Commission (CQC) |
This report sets out the CQC’s assessment of the state of care in England in 2020/21. They use data from our inspections and ratings, along with other information, including that from people who use services, their families and carers, to inform our judgements of the quality of care. |
| September 2021. A Vision for Social Care | The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Adult Social Care. |
This report identifies a number of key areas around which the reform of social care will achieve the sustainable and meaningful impact for people who access care and support. |
| May 2021. Social care 360 Report care | Kings Fund |
This Social Care 360 report uses the latest available data (2019/20) to describe the key trends in adult social care as the Covid-19 pandemic struck and to suggest what the impact of the pandemic might be. It paints quite a bleak picture of adult social care in England, with many key indicators already going in the wrong direction before the pandemic struck. |
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May 2021. Living longer: Evidence cards | Centre for Ageing Better |
This set of evidence cards summarises the key stats and context around England's ageing population through engaging and accessible infographics. The cards help professionals better understand the evidence base and opportunities around demographic changes and trends. The cards have been designed to be used in workshops to run an ‘evidence safari’, a collaborative and interactive way of exploring research and insight rapidly. |
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November 2020. The state of ageing 2020. Centre for Ageing Better |
This report provides a valuable overview of the UK ageing picture described through analysing nationally-available data that shows how people across England are ageing. It shows the state of health, finances and communities when COVID-19 hit and the impact it has had so far. Find out more |
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October 2020. Health and wellbeing innovation commission; Connections and Loneliness | International Longevity Centre |
This report brings together the case for improving social connections in later life and the scope for innovation. |
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October 2019. Ageing gracefully | Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development |
This report looks at opportunities for the older workforce. Through inclusive policies and practices that make work friendly for the ageing workforce, they can extend working lives meaningfully and benefit from the talents of older workers. |
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February 2019. The Perennials – The Future of ageing | Ipsos MORI |
This global study, conducted in partnership with the Centre for Ageing Better illustrates the attitudes to ageing across 30 countries. Britons are overwhelmingly negative about old age. Only three in ten (30%) agree that they are looking forward to old age, while more than double (68%) disagree with this statement. Underpinning this negativity could be our expectations of later life; only 38% agree that they expect to be fit and healthy in old age, compared to one in five (22%) who disagree with this statement. |
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July 2016 Future of an ageing population | Foresight |
This report looks at the challenges and opportunities of an ageing society. The report brings together evidence about today’s older population, with future trends and projections, to identify the implications for the UK. This evidence will help government to develop the policies needed to adapt to an ageing population. |
2. UK care market and workforce insight
| November 2021. The Ingredients for Growth | Scottish Care |
Care providers across Scotland have told them that they have mixed experience of regulation and oversight and feel that there is confusion between the two. This report aims to capture the range of experience and the impact that is having upon the sector, as well as to explore potential improvement for the future. |
| October 2021. The state of the adult social care sector and workforce in England | Skills for Care. |
This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the adult social care workforce in England and the characteristics of the 1.54 million people working in it. Topics covered include: Changes in the adult social care workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic, employment information, recruitment and retention, demographics, pay, qualification rates and future workforce forecasts. |
| October 2021. Scotland’s Digital Health and Care Response to COVID-19 2021 update | Scottish Government |
This report prepared by the Digital Health and Care Directorate of the Scottish Government provides an update on the scale-up and adoption of digital health and care solutions in Scotland, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This report is intended to: inform our stakeholders of activity undertaken as part of the Scottish Government’s COVID-19 response; enable decision makers to identify areas for further prioritisation; inform the identification of key lessons learned; and share learning with other countries. |
| August 2021. Workforce pressures | The National Care Forum |
The social care sector and social care workforce are facing increasing challenges. NCF reports provide information from the latest survey results, commentary on the workforce crisis, the Skills for Care State of the Adult Social Care Sector and Workforce in England 2021 Report and Experimental data from the Government about self-funders to highlight some of the key challenges facing the sector. |
| June 2021. Breaks or breakdown | Carers Week 2021 |
This research shows the impact of reduced support from both services and family and friends has had on carers’ health and wellbeing. It demonstrates that without the right interventions there could be more carer breakdown and why the UK Government should increase funding for carers’ breaks, so all carers providing significant hours of care have access to a meaningful break. |
| July 2021. Time for change | Scottish Care |
This paper reviews the recommendations of the Independent Review of Adult Social Care and the actions emerging from ‘Coileanadh’ to explore the synergies and areas of opportunity that can help to overcome the implementation gap and articulate the key requirements of a National Care Framework. |
| July 2021. Enhancing health and economic resilience for a better future | Business for Health |
A key priority for Business for Health is the development of an Index to measure contribution of health as a part of a wider process to get ‘Health’ into ESG mandates (ie ‘ESHG’). = The framework will act as the routemap for the development of the Business Index, enabled by our growing ecosystem of members testing out the Index in proof-of-concept pilots and helping companies move to a desired position of creating and improving health. |
| June 2021. Seeing the diamond in social care data | Scottish Care |
In this paper, they share our vision for social care data and share the findings of a series of data forums hosted by Scottish Care involving colleagues from across the social care sector, industry, academia, and government. They articulate the value and potential of social care data and the need to create the right conditions to ensure that its worth can be uncovered and harnessed. They aim to reveal the diamond in data towards a person led vision which creates value for all. |
| May 2021. A guide to attracting and retaining a thriving social care workforce | Total jobs Work Foundation |
This report aims to support care providers navigating these challenges, highlighting key insights from our research and offering recommendations for employers and government to create long-term solutions for a thriving workforce – from tackling misconceptions to supporting employee wellbeing. |
| May 2021. Coileanadh, Manifesting a flourishing social care future for Scotland | Scottish Care |
The output of phase two of the ‘Collective Care Future’ programme. The visual landscape embodies the contributions of a diverse range of expertise and experiences from providers, staff, people supported, families and wider partners in care and support in Scotland. The findings include eight concepts and three priority areas of focus relating to the overarching philosophy and culture, the policy and partnership enablers, and the way in which change can be enacted in social care practice. |
| April 2021. Fractured and forgotten? The social care provider market in England | Nuffield Trust |
Social care providers in England have been thrown into the spotlight over the last year as they were hit by Covid-19. But providers of these vital care services are still too often ignored in the increasingly intense discussion around reforming our failing system. This report lays out 10 systemic problems with the way our market for social care operates, and argues that unless they are resolved, funding reforms alone will fail to deliver sustainable change. |
| April 2021. A look to the future – achieving the nursing vision | Scottish Care |
This report summarises the findings from the 2021 Scottish Care Nursing Survey, which was issued in April 2021 to Scottish Care members with nursing provision. Questions were asked around longstanding issues for the sector, such as recruitment and retention, the importance of wellbeing, and what providers would like to see as the future of social care nursing in Scotland. |
| February 2021. The Independent Review of Adult Social Care in Scotland | Scottish Government |
Led by Derek Feeley, a former Scottish Government Director General for Health and Social Care and Chief Executive of NHS Scotland. A good deal of public attention to social care support has been recently focused on care homes. They make a number of recommendations specific to the care home sector and, at the same time, it is important to recognise that most social care support is delivered in local communities and in people’s homes. |
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January 2021. What does a human right to social care look like? | Scottish Care |
This paper seeks to describe what such a human right to social care could look like in practice. It is written at a time of real turmoil and debate about social care in general and specifically the future of adult social care in Scotland. |
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January 2021. Manifesto 2021 | Scottish Care |
The theme of this manifesto echoes that of the call for a social care covenant, included in the Independent Review for Adult Social Care. They welcome the concept of a social covenant ensuring that everyone can get the social care support they need to live their lives as they choose and to be active citizens. |
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November 2020. Lessons and Legacy from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Health and Care | AHSN Network |
Collider Health worked with the AHSN Network on a short research study to understand how technology has been an enabler in reducing the care burden and coping with the COVID-19 crisis, and to identify what should be sustained in the ‘new normal’ longer-term. The findings, highlight the importance of treating health as our greatest national asset to nurture and protect, with preventative health requiring more attention in the long-term. Importantly, social care needs to be given the same weighting as to the NHS to accelerate the move towards health and social care integration. |
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September 2020. Care home markets in England 2020 | Personal Social Services Research Unit |
This report assesses local care home market supply in England. In particular, it offers analysis of the time and spatial dynamics of the supply of care homes and explores the role of Local Authority (LA) expenditure in this market. This report is part of a research project examining regional social care market dynamics. |
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October 2020. Caring for Britain – The Alternative Green Paper | Legal & General |
The stories in this report show that there is much more to be done to support older adults. They also show that there is some ground‑breaking thinking, research and delivery happening right now. |
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August 2020. Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2019 Workforce Data | Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) |
The report combines administrative data from the Care Inspectorate with data collected directly from local authorities by the SSSC to form a comprehensive picture of the paid workforce employed in the social service sector in Scotland at the end of 2019. This report provides an overview of the data at a national level and, where possible, also provides data sub-divided by sub-sector or local authority area. |
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November 2019 Scottish Government Health and Social Care | Implications of labour markets for the social care workforce |
The aim of this study is to better understand the influences that national and local labour markets have on the social care sector, how different parts of the social care sector interact and the implications for workforce planning. |
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November 2019. Experience of the Experienced | Scottish Care |
This report shares the words of the women and men who work in care homes, care at home and housing support services. This includes their story of dedication and ability, which is making a difference to the lives of some of our most vulnerable citizens. The experience of age, skills, talents and creativity these individuals bring is what is daily transforming the lives of countless people across Scotland today. In every sense it is the experienced who are enabling an experience of dignity, purposefulness and value in the lives of those they care for and support. |
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January 2018. Recruitment and retention in adult social care services | The Policy Institute, King's College London |
This report presents findings from research in England undertaken in 2017 to inform debates about a possible new government social care workforce strategy. |
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November 2017. Fragile Foundations: Exploring the mental health of the social care workforce and the people they support | Scottish Care |
This report seeks to describe the experiences of those who work in care at home and care home services and who every day are supporting individuals to live better lives and to overcome the mental stress and distress that crowds in on their living. It shares the voices of a workforce offering dedicated, person-centred care but which is itself struggling to deal with the very real challenges which caring itself brings. |
3. Care sector entreprise opportunities
| November 2021. Healthy Ageing: Solutions to a global challenge | Department for International Trade (DIT) | DIT supports trade and investment opportunities across the healthy ageing pathway and this report is essential overview for entrepreneurs and innovators and describes the international context, challenges and case studies. |
| October 2021. Unlocking growth: The age of age-tech | Barclays Eagle Labs |
The report builds understanding of this increasingly important part of the Health-Tech market and is essential reading for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs. It shines a spotlight on the challenges within the healthcare sector and how age technology or ‘Age-Tech’ can support an increasing population of older people to live more independent and healthy lives. |
| January 2021. Remote engagement: Removing barriers to inclusion in the context of COVID-19 | HAC Centre for Ageing Better, Community of Practice |
This paper was developed in light of challenges that lockdown and COVID-19 created for engagement / co-production. The paper outlines approaches and techniques to carrying out user engagement and co-production activities where traditional face to face methods aren't possible. With much engagement moving to online delivery, it highlights potential barriers around culture, IT literacy, confidence and trust building and gives examples of how these can be overcome. |
| November 2020. The future of impact investment in healthy ageing | UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge and Collider Health. |
This report is key for solution providers and entrepreneurs to understand how impact investing is evolving post-Covid 19 in the healthy ageing marketplace, and how best to deploy investment specifically for impact investors and social enterprises. Nearly 200 organisations were surveyed spanning traditional investors, venture capital/private equity funds, impact investors, social enterprises and not-for-profit organisations, actively engaged in or considering entering the marketplace for healthy ageing products and services. |
| September 2020. UK Care Homes - An opportunity to build communities and invest capital | JLL |
This paper identifies the scale of the opportunity and predicts that the industry will require over 10,000 additional beds per annum over the next decade to meet demand. With many other real estate uses evolving and shrinking in space requirements due to societal changes accelerated by COVID-19, there will be significant opportunities to build more suitable care home developments to meet the growing demands of an ageing population and provide the care that our elders so desperately need. |
| June 2020. Opportunities in healthy ageing | Department of International Trade | The UK is an ideal location for investors who benefit from a guided journey to arrive in the UK, and from subsequent aftercare, growth and export support. This report illustrates why the UK is the place to develop healthy ageing innovation and business opportunities. |
| March 2020. Micro-funding: Empowering Communities to Create Grassroots Change | National Lottery Community Fund |
Ageing Better is a six-year programme (2015 to 2021) to develop creative ways for people aged over 50 to be actively involved in their local communities, to combat social isolation and loneliness. This paper summaries learning from a detailed review of micro-funding activities on the Ageing Better programme. |
4. Design, innovation and technology for healthy ageing
| December 2021. Residential Care Tech Landscape Review | Future Care Capital (FCC) |
This review is the final instalment of a four-part series examining the state of play for digital services across different branches of adult social care in England. It builds on previous research examining the digital transformation in residential care homes, including by The King’s Fund and Digital Social Care. It recommends incentivising development, uptake of solutions and scaling of beneficial technology. |
| October 2021. Using design to innovate more effectively in the healthy ageing sector | Centre for Ageing Better, UKRI |
This report describes the principles of applying effective design in the healthy ageing market. It’s the culmination of four month learning programme engaging over 200 current, and aspirant, enterprises in the healthy ageing sector. |
| April 2021. Shaping the future of digital technology in health and social care | King's Fund |
This report, commissioned by the Health Foundation, provides a summary of evidence for how emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, smartphones, wearable devices and the internet of things are being used within care settings around the world. |
| 2021. Mind the Gap | Scottish Council for Development and Industry |
How data, digital and technology can help Scotland recover from Covid-19, transform health & social care and boost our economy. Long-term, strategic investment in health & social care innovation is critical. New and emerging technologies – enabled and underpinned by ethical, robust and secure data – can and should play a vital role in transforming health and social care. |
| January 2021. 21 Days, 21 Stories | Aging 2.0. |
These stories from around the world showcase a variety of projects that all share the common belief that innovation and fresh thinking can go a long way towards improving the lives of older adults. |
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November 2020. Transform Ageing – Supporting people in later life through social entrepreneurship, community and design | Design Council |
Transform Ageing, funded by The National Lottery Community Fund, was a pioneering programme taking a community and design-led approach to improve people’s experience of ageing. This report brings together learning shared throughout the programme – with new data from our final evaluation delivered by the Institute for Social Innovation and Impact, University of Northampton – on what worked and what we could do differently in the future. |
Publications
Read our last news and see the impact of the programme on our blog.
Act now. If you’d like to become involved with our programme and inform our publications, register today. We want to hear about the impact you’re having!
Showcasing Care Trailblazers
The care sector is on the cusp of significant change and we aim to discover and listen to the experiences of ‘care trailblazers’ leading that change, breaking new ground and disrupting the market. This will enable us to identify market failures and gaps, key development themes and opportunities and areas of focus for future industry development.
We'll be listening to the leading pioneers in the care sector, exploring their ideas and understanding their approaches to develop a body of on-the-ground evidence around the key development opportunities in the sector.
Read about our Care Trailblazers on the Healthier working lives blog.
Care sector insight and trends
We're developing a series of key Care Briefings that investigate and analyse the key trends and factors influencing and driving change in the care sector. The Care Briefings look at trends in care sector workforce, market structure, accelerating technology and the impact of COVID.
The Briefings are essential reading for service providers, anyone involved in care workforce planning, solution providers committed to or considering entering the care sector, or anyone investing in innovation.
Read care sector insight and trends on the Healthier working lives blog.
Download Care sector Workforce Planning: Trends, challenges and opportunities briefing paper.
Care stories from the front line
We'll be identifying a series of real-life stories based on the latest understanding of the challenges facing the sector. These stories will showcase the key actors and reflect rich persona’s, with the aim of galvanising the energy and focus required to develop the ideas for novel products and services in the market.
Making the challenges ‘real’ gives entrepreneurs a true sense of what they can achieve and the difference they can make for the people in the care industry.
Conferences
Read our last news and see the impact of the programme on our blog.
Act now. If you’d like to become involved with our programme and inform our publications, register today. We want to hear about the impact you’re having!
13.04.2023 FICCH Bailed out and Burned out? The Financial impact of COVID-19 on UK Care Homes for older people and their workforce. Report reveals government support over £2 Billion helped care home sector avoid collapse during pandemic. More information can be found on link. FICCH Report
15.03.2023 Pivot Workshop with Care Workers and Industry Trailblazers. The Co-Design lead, Prof Sarah Kettley, led an workshop bringing together our Care homes and our industry Trailblazers going through an Co-Design workshop to build on future work in the coming months.
06.03.2023 What Happens when Care homes close? English adult social care are likely to see further care home closures. Despite the importance of these issues, there is little underpinning research to draw on when establishing good practice, with particular gaps in terms of understanding outcomes for older people, the experience of care staff ,economic evidence and the perspectives of social care leaders. Further information can be found on article. What Happens when Care home Close
21.02.2023 Digital Health & Care Conference. The workforce lead, Caroline Deane, took part in an panel to discuss the challenges facing the workforce and how the research project is helping to address these challenges among older workforce.
14.11.2022 Healthy Ageing Challenge Conference Co-Design Panel Discussion. Our Co-Design lead Prof Sarah Kettley led an discussion in an panel with Dr Luis Soares about Co-Design success in the project and how it has been game changer for collecting and interacting with our case study.
22.10.2022 Joint symposium presentation at CAG Conference. Our Researchers led by Luis Soares, Bettina Zenz and Andrew Fletcher presented the project in Regina, Canada. This showcased the progress the project has made in the last year with data collection.
19.10.2022 Discussion of commercialisation. Discussing how research group can future seize commercialisation opportunities.
28.09.2022 Online Seminar with Luis Soares Discussing Co-design methods. HWL will be using including the Co-Design process the Research group will be piloting across next few weeks with our Case Study group.
17.08.2022 Webinar in 'Behaviour change & business'. This webinar focused on behaviour change and its applications in design. Design community experts delivered several talks on behaviour change, design and sustainability. The event was co-delivered with the Design Innovation Network.
05.07.2022 Design Labs Methods Toolkit Workshop. This workshop was a Design Informatics internal activity. Participants were invited to share one original design method they had developed. The goal was to help Edinburgh Future Institute Design Lab map how we can build a platform/shop window of original, participatory design methods developed by creative practitioners across the University of Edinburgh.
30.06.2022 Adding intelligence to Aging and Longevity. This workshop was organised by the National Innovation Centre for Ageing to explore the market of the Internet of Caring Things (IoCT). The first session was dedicated to connected health devices. The goal was to try and understand and contribute to how we can make these devices more meaningful to everyday life.
26.06.2022 Our Care Innovation workshop. Hosted with the GOALD Generating Older Active Lives Digitally (GOALD) project (supported by EPIC in Cornwall) brought together 20 care industry professionals and entrepreneurs to spotlight on digital tech innovation. One was James Godolphin, Assistant Manager, Perran Bay Care Home: “My motto is if you're standing still, you're actually going backwards, especially with tech in the modern world.”
17.06.2022 Care Innovation workshops. 20 care industry professionals and entrepreneurs joined one our Care Innovation workshops hosted with the GOALD Generating Older Active Lives Digitally (GOALD) project. The workshop highlighted many important insights which will be taken into the co-design stages of Healthier Working Lives Programme.
30.01.2022 Impact (Improving Adult Care Together) Survey Report. Most people would like to see funding to involve people who draw on care and support, carers and practitioners; practical support to make changes to social care on the ground; and opportunities for people to work on practical changes together.
02.12.2021 Barclays Eagle Labs. Creative Venue presented HWL to Barclays Eagle Labs healthtech entrepreneurs to provide the opportunity for enterprises to be HWL Traillblazers. 20 business attended chaired by Jen Estherby, Eagle Labs HealthTech Lead.
15-16.11.2021 Healthy Ageing 2021 Conference. Reflective of the wide breadth of areas covered by the Healthy Ageing domain itself, the Healthy Ageing 2021 conference was designed to inspire debate and discussion across a wide number of important topics, ensuring there was something of value and interest for all. Professor Linda Mckie joined a panel debate. Find out more
30.10.2021 Healthy Ageing by Design. 80% of participants reported that this programme had somewhat or greatly increased their perceptions of the importance of design, and 100% agreed that the programme helped them develop or progress their project. At this webinar we launch our report, which shares learnings, tools, resources and insights from the entrepreneurs, experts and investors who participated in the Healthy Ageing by Design growth programme. Find out more
Work that has informed Healthier working lives for the care workforce includes:
Read our last news and see the impact of the programme on our blog.
Here you will find a wealth of current and compelling industry data and insight published by leading care sector organisations, think tanks and businesses.
Act now. If you’d like to become involved with our programme and inform our publications, register today. We want to hear about the impact you’re having!
1. UK ageing and adult social care sector policy, analysis and trends
| May 2022. Digital and Data Readiness of Care Homes for Older People in South East Scotland. Edinburgh Napier University & Advanced Care Research Centre |
Care homes for older people in south-east Scotland are largely run using paper-based management systems with 35% of care homes using an electronic care management system. |
| January 2022. Build Back Better: our plan for health and social care | UK Government |
This report outlines the UK government’s plan for specific measures to support health and adult social care in England. It also sets out areas to work with the Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive to support people from all over the UK to live more independent, healthier lives for longer. |
| December 2021. Integrating health and social care: A comparison of policy and progress across the four countries of the UK | Nuffield Trust |
The integration of health and social care has been a long-standing policy priority in each country of the UK. However, there is limited evidence these policies are delivering the results expected of them. This report looks at the impact of integration across the four countries and compares the policies and approaches each one has trialled to deliver their goals. |
| December 2021. The longevity economy | Oxford Economics |
The first Longevity Report was published in 2013. The latest update demonstrates a shift in the mix of sectors in the economy, with both health and education expanding further and new financial products arising. Such an economy has the potential to contribute to growth in gross domestic product through employment and human capital. |
| December 2021. People at the Heart of Care | UK Government |
The evidence review for adult social care reform is published alongside People at the Heart of Care. Its main purpose is to outline trends and challenges based on the current (as of 1 December 2021) adult social care system in England. |
| November 2021. State of caring 2021 | Carers UK |
This annual online survey of Carers, enables readers to learn about carers personal experience and build a picture of caring in the UK. Their 2021 survey was the largest yet and the report is based on feedback from over 8000 people who currently provide unpaid care to a friend or family member. The report shows the longer-term impacts of managing in a very difficult environment for a prolonged period of time and covers issues such as finance, health and wellbeing, the provision of support and services and the challenges of juggling multiple responsibilities. |
| November 2021. A ‘radically realistic’ vision for adult social care | The Kings Fund |
There has been a collective failure to deliver reform of adult social care in England for at least two decades. It has left a system struggling with a series of problems: an overly-stringent means test; catastrophic costs; unmet need; patchy care quality; poor workforce pay and conditions; a fragile provider market; disjointed care; and a ‘postcode lottery’ of access. |
| October 2021. The state of health care and adult social care in England 2020/21 | Care Quality Commission (CQC) |
This report sets out the CQC’s assessment of the state of care in England in 2020/21. They use data from our inspections and ratings, along with other information, including that from people who use services, their families and carers, to inform our judgements of the quality of care. |
| September 2021. A Vision for Social Care | The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Adult Social Care. |
This report identifies a number of key areas around which the reform of social care will achieve the sustainable and meaningful impact for people who access care and support. |
| May 2021. Social care 360 Report care | Kings Fund |
This Social Care 360 report uses the latest available data (2019/20) to describe the key trends in adult social care as the Covid-19 pandemic struck and to suggest what the impact of the pandemic might be. It paints quite a bleak picture of adult social care in England, with many key indicators already going in the wrong direction before the pandemic struck. |
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May 2021. Living longer: Evidence cards | Centre for Ageing Better |
This set of evidence cards summarises the key stats and context around England's ageing population through engaging and accessible infographics. The cards help professionals better understand the evidence base and opportunities around demographic changes and trends. The cards have been designed to be used in workshops to run an ‘evidence safari’, a collaborative and interactive way of exploring research and insight rapidly. |
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November 2020. The state of ageing 2020. Centre for Ageing Better |
This report provides a valuable overview of the UK ageing picture described through analysing nationally-available data that shows how people across England are ageing. It shows the state of health, finances and communities when COVID-19 hit and the impact it has had so far. Find out more |
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October 2020. Health and wellbeing innovation commission; Connections and Loneliness | International Longevity Centre |
This report brings together the case for improving social connections in later life and the scope for innovation. |
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October 2019. Ageing gracefully | Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development |
This report looks at opportunities for the older workforce. Through inclusive policies and practices that make work friendly for the ageing workforce, they can extend working lives meaningfully and benefit from the talents of older workers. |
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February 2019. The Perennials – The Future of ageing | Ipsos MORI |
This global study, conducted in partnership with the Centre for Ageing Better illustrates the attitudes to ageing across 30 countries. Britons are overwhelmingly negative about old age. Only three in ten (30%) agree that they are looking forward to old age, while more than double (68%) disagree with this statement. Underpinning this negativity could be our expectations of later life; only 38% agree that they expect to be fit and healthy in old age, compared to one in five (22%) who disagree with this statement. |
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July 2016 Future of an ageing population | Foresight |
This report looks at the challenges and opportunities of an ageing society. The report brings together evidence about today’s older population, with future trends and projections, to identify the implications for the UK. This evidence will help government to develop the policies needed to adapt to an ageing population. |
2. UK care market and workforce insight
| November 2021. The Ingredients for Growth | Scottish Care |
Care providers across Scotland have told them that they have mixed experience of regulation and oversight and feel that there is confusion between the two. This report aims to capture the range of experience and the impact that is having upon the sector, as well as to explore potential improvement for the future. |
| October 2021. The state of the adult social care sector and workforce in England | Skills for Care. |
This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the adult social care workforce in England and the characteristics of the 1.54 million people working in it. Topics covered include: Changes in the adult social care workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic, employment information, recruitment and retention, demographics, pay, qualification rates and future workforce forecasts. |
| October 2021. Scotland’s Digital Health and Care Response to COVID-19 2021 update | Scottish Government |
This report prepared by the Digital Health and Care Directorate of the Scottish Government provides an update on the scale-up and adoption of digital health and care solutions in Scotland, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This report is intended to: inform our stakeholders of activity undertaken as part of the Scottish Government’s COVID-19 response; enable decision makers to identify areas for further prioritisation; inform the identification of key lessons learned; and share learning with other countries. |
| August 2021. Workforce pressures | The National Care Forum |
The social care sector and social care workforce are facing increasing challenges. NCF reports provide information from the latest survey results, commentary on the workforce crisis, the Skills for Care State of the Adult Social Care Sector and Workforce in England 2021 Report and Experimental data from the Government about self-funders to highlight some of the key challenges facing the sector. |
| June 2021. Breaks or breakdown | Carers Week 2021 |
This research shows the impact of reduced support from both services and family and friends has had on carers’ health and wellbeing. It demonstrates that without the right interventions there could be more carer breakdown and why the UK Government should increase funding for carers’ breaks, so all carers providing significant hours of care have access to a meaningful break. |
| July 2021. Time for change | Scottish Care |
This paper reviews the recommendations of the Independent Review of Adult Social Care and the actions emerging from ‘Coileanadh’ to explore the synergies and areas of opportunity that can help to overcome the implementation gap and articulate the key requirements of a National Care Framework. |
| July 2021. Enhancing health and economic resilience for a better future | Business for Health |
A key priority for Business for Health is the development of an Index to measure contribution of health as a part of a wider process to get ‘Health’ into ESG mandates (ie ‘ESHG’). = The framework will act as the routemap for the development of the Business Index, enabled by our growing ecosystem of members testing out the Index in proof-of-concept pilots and helping companies move to a desired position of creating and improving health. |
| June 2021. Seeing the diamond in social care data | Scottish Care |
In this paper, they share our vision for social care data and share the findings of a series of data forums hosted by Scottish Care involving colleagues from across the social care sector, industry, academia, and government. They articulate the value and potential of social care data and the need to create the right conditions to ensure that its worth can be uncovered and harnessed. They aim to reveal the diamond in data towards a person led vision which creates value for all. |
| May 2021. A guide to attracting and retaining a thriving social care workforce | Total jobs Work Foundation |
This report aims to support care providers navigating these challenges, highlighting key insights from our research and offering recommendations for employers and government to create long-term solutions for a thriving workforce – from tackling misconceptions to supporting employee wellbeing. |
| May 2021. Coileanadh, Manifesting a flourishing social care future for Scotland | Scottish Care |
The output of phase two of the ‘Collective Care Future’ programme. The visual landscape embodies the contributions of a diverse range of expertise and experiences from providers, staff, people supported, families and wider partners in care and support in Scotland. The findings include eight concepts and three priority areas of focus relating to the overarching philosophy and culture, the policy and partnership enablers, and the way in which change can be enacted in social care practice. |
| April 2021. Fractured and forgotten? The social care provider market in England | Nuffield Trust |
Social care providers in England have been thrown into the spotlight over the last year as they were hit by Covid-19. But providers of these vital care services are still too often ignored in the increasingly intense discussion around reforming our failing system. This report lays out 10 systemic problems with the way our market for social care operates, and argues that unless they are resolved, funding reforms alone will fail to deliver sustainable change. |
| April 2021. A look to the future – achieving the nursing vision | Scottish Care |
This report summarises the findings from the 2021 Scottish Care Nursing Survey, which was issued in April 2021 to Scottish Care members with nursing provision. Questions were asked around longstanding issues for the sector, such as recruitment and retention, the importance of wellbeing, and what providers would like to see as the future of social care nursing in Scotland. |
| February 2021. The Independent Review of Adult Social Care in Scotland | Scottish Government |
Led by Derek Feeley, a former Scottish Government Director General for Health and Social Care and Chief Executive of NHS Scotland. A good deal of public attention to social care support has been recently focused on care homes. They make a number of recommendations specific to the care home sector and, at the same time, it is important to recognise that most social care support is delivered in local communities and in people’s homes. |
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January 2021. What does a human right to social care look like? | Scottish Care |
This paper seeks to describe what such a human right to social care could look like in practice. It is written at a time of real turmoil and debate about social care in general and specifically the future of adult social care in Scotland. |
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January 2021. Manifesto 2021 | Scottish Care |
The theme of this manifesto echoes that of the call for a social care covenant, included in the Independent Review for Adult Social Care. They welcome the concept of a social covenant ensuring that everyone can get the social care support they need to live their lives as they choose and to be active citizens. |
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November 2020. Lessons and Legacy from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Health and Care | AHSN Network |
Collider Health worked with the AHSN Network on a short research study to understand how technology has been an enabler in reducing the care burden and coping with the COVID-19 crisis, and to identify what should be sustained in the ‘new normal’ longer-term. The findings, highlight the importance of treating health as our greatest national asset to nurture and protect, with preventative health requiring more attention in the long-term. Importantly, social care needs to be given the same weighting as to the NHS to accelerate the move towards health and social care integration. |
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September 2020. Care home markets in England 2020 | Personal Social Services Research Unit |
This report assesses local care home market supply in England. In particular, it offers analysis of the time and spatial dynamics of the supply of care homes and explores the role of Local Authority (LA) expenditure in this market. This report is part of a research project examining regional social care market dynamics. |
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October 2020. Caring for Britain – The Alternative Green Paper | Legal & General |
The stories in this report show that there is much more to be done to support older adults. They also show that there is some ground‑breaking thinking, research and delivery happening right now. |
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August 2020. Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2019 Workforce Data | Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) |
The report combines administrative data from the Care Inspectorate with data collected directly from local authorities by the SSSC to form a comprehensive picture of the paid workforce employed in the social service sector in Scotland at the end of 2019. This report provides an overview of the data at a national level and, where possible, also provides data sub-divided by sub-sector or local authority area. |
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November 2019 Scottish Government Health and Social Care | Implications of labour markets for the social care workforce |
The aim of this study is to better understand the influences that national and local labour markets have on the social care sector, how different parts of the social care sector interact and the implications for workforce planning. |
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November 2019. Experience of the Experienced | Scottish Care |
This report shares the words of the women and men who work in care homes, care at home and housing support services. This includes their story of dedication and ability, which is making a difference to the lives of some of our most vulnerable citizens. The experience of age, skills, talents and creativity these individuals bring is what is daily transforming the lives of countless people across Scotland today. In every sense it is the experienced who are enabling an experience of dignity, purposefulness and value in the lives of those they care for and support. |
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January 2018. Recruitment and retention in adult social care services | The Policy Institute, King's College London |
This report presents findings from research in England undertaken in 2017 to inform debates about a possible new government social care workforce strategy. |
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November 2017. Fragile Foundations: Exploring the mental health of the social care workforce and the people they support | Scottish Care |
This report seeks to describe the experiences of those who work in care at home and care home services and who every day are supporting individuals to live better lives and to overcome the mental stress and distress that crowds in on their living. It shares the voices of a workforce offering dedicated, person-centred care but which is itself struggling to deal with the very real challenges which caring itself brings. |
3. Care sector entreprise opportunities
| November 2021. Healthy Ageing: Solutions to a global challenge | Department for International Trade (DIT) | DIT supports trade and investment opportunities across the healthy ageing pathway and this report is essential overview for entrepreneurs and innovators and describes the international context, challenges and case studies. |
| October 2021. Unlocking growth: The age of age-tech | Barclays Eagle Labs |
The report builds understanding of this increasingly important part of the Health-Tech market and is essential reading for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs. It shines a spotlight on the challenges within the healthcare sector and how age technology or ‘Age-Tech’ can support an increasing population of older people to live more independent and healthy lives. |
| January 2021. Remote engagement: Removing barriers to inclusion in the context of COVID-19 | HAC Centre for Ageing Better, Community of Practice |
This paper was developed in light of challenges that lockdown and COVID-19 created for engagement / co-production. The paper outlines approaches and techniques to carrying out user engagement and co-production activities where traditional face to face methods aren't possible. With much engagement moving to online delivery, it highlights potential barriers around culture, IT literacy, confidence and trust building and gives examples of how these can be overcome. |
| November 2020. The future of impact investment in healthy ageing | UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge and Collider Health. |
This report is key for solution providers and entrepreneurs to understand how impact investing is evolving post-Covid 19 in the healthy ageing marketplace, and how best to deploy investment specifically for impact investors and social enterprises. Nearly 200 organisations were surveyed spanning traditional investors, venture capital/private equity funds, impact investors, social enterprises and not-for-profit organisations, actively engaged in or considering entering the marketplace for healthy ageing products and services. |
| September 2020. UK Care Homes - An opportunity to build communities and invest capital | JLL |
This paper identifies the scale of the opportunity and predicts that the industry will require over 10,000 additional beds per annum over the next decade to meet demand. With many other real estate uses evolving and shrinking in space requirements due to societal changes accelerated by COVID-19, there will be significant opportunities to build more suitable care home developments to meet the growing demands of an ageing population and provide the care that our elders so desperately need. |
| June 2020. Opportunities in healthy ageing | Department of International Trade | The UK is an ideal location for investors who benefit from a guided journey to arrive in the UK, and from subsequent aftercare, growth and export support. This report illustrates why the UK is the place to develop healthy ageing innovation and business opportunities. |
| March 2020. Micro-funding: Empowering Communities to Create Grassroots Change | National Lottery Community Fund |
Ageing Better is a six-year programme (2015 to 2021) to develop creative ways for people aged over 50 to be actively involved in their local communities, to combat social isolation and loneliness. This paper summaries learning from a detailed review of micro-funding activities on the Ageing Better programme. |
4. Design, innovation and technology for healthy ageing
| December 2021. Residential Care Tech Landscape Review | Future Care Capital (FCC) |
This review is the final instalment of a four-part series examining the state of play for digital services across different branches of adult social care in England. It builds on previous research examining the digital transformation in residential care homes, including by The King’s Fund and Digital Social Care. It recommends incentivising development, uptake of solutions and scaling of beneficial technology. |
| October 2021. Using design to innovate more effectively in the healthy ageing sector | Centre for Ageing Better, UKRI |
This report describes the principles of applying effective design in the healthy ageing market. It’s the culmination of four month learning programme engaging over 200 current, and aspirant, enterprises in the healthy ageing sector. |
| April 2021. Shaping the future of digital technology in health and social care | King's Fund |
This report, commissioned by the Health Foundation, provides a summary of evidence for how emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, smartphones, wearable devices and the internet of things are being used within care settings around the world. |
| 2021. Mind the Gap | Scottish Council for Development and Industry |
How data, digital and technology can help Scotland recover from Covid-19, transform health & social care and boost our economy. Long-term, strategic investment in health & social care innovation is critical. New and emerging technologies – enabled and underpinned by ethical, robust and secure data – can and should play a vital role in transforming health and social care. |
| January 2021. 21 Days, 21 Stories | Aging 2.0. |
These stories from around the world showcase a variety of projects that all share the common belief that innovation and fresh thinking can go a long way towards improving the lives of older adults. |
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November 2020. Transform Ageing – Supporting people in later life through social entrepreneurship, community and design | Design Council |
Transform Ageing, funded by The National Lottery Community Fund, was a pioneering programme taking a community and design-led approach to improve people’s experience of ageing. This report brings together learning shared throughout the programme – with new data from our final evaluation delivered by the Institute for Social Innovation and Impact, University of Northampton – on what worked and what we could do differently in the future. |
Publications
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Showcasing Care Trailblazers
The care sector is on the cusp of significant change and we aim to discover and listen to the experiences of ‘care trailblazers’ leading that change, breaking new ground and disrupting the market. This will enable us to identify market failures and gaps, key development themes and opportunities and areas of focus for future industry development.
We'll be listening to the leading pioneers in the care sector, exploring their ideas and understanding their approaches to develop a body of on-the-ground evidence around the key development opportunities in the sector.
Read about our Care Trailblazers on the Healthier working lives blog.
Care sector insight and trends
We're developing a series of key Care Briefings that investigate and analyse the key trends and factors influencing and driving change in the care sector. The Care Briefings look at trends in care sector workforce, market structure, accelerating technology and the impact of COVID.
The Briefings are essential reading for service providers, anyone involved in care workforce planning, solution providers committed to or considering entering the care sector, or anyone investing in innovation.
Read care sector insight and trends on the Healthier working lives blog.
Download Care sector Workforce Planning: Trends, challenges and opportunities briefing paper.
Care stories from the front line
We'll be identifying a series of real-life stories based on the latest understanding of the challenges facing the sector. These stories will showcase the key actors and reflect rich persona’s, with the aim of galvanising the energy and focus required to develop the ideas for novel products and services in the market.
Making the challenges ‘real’ gives entrepreneurs a true sense of what they can achieve and the difference they can make for the people in the care industry.
Conferences
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13.04.2023 FICCH Bailed out and Burned out? The Financial impact of COVID-19 on UK Care Homes for older people and their workforce. Report reveals government support over £2 Billion helped care home sector avoid collapse during pandemic. More information can be found on link. FICCH Report
15.03.2023 Pivot Workshop with Care Workers and Industry Trailblazers. The Co-Design lead, Prof Sarah Kettley, led an workshop bringing together our Care homes and our industry Trailblazers going through an Co-Design workshop to build on future work in the coming months.
06.03.2023 What Happens when Care homes close? English adult social care are likely to see further care home closures. Despite the importance of these issues, there is little underpinning research to draw on when establishing good practice, with particular gaps in terms of understanding outcomes for older people, the experience of care staff ,economic evidence and the perspectives of social care leaders. Further information can be found on article. What Happens when Care home Close
21.02.2023 Digital Health & Care Conference. The workforce lead, Caroline Deane, took part in an panel to discuss the challenges facing the workforce and how the research project is helping to address these challenges among older workforce.
14.11.2022 Healthy Ageing Challenge Conference Co-Design Panel Discussion. Our Co-Design lead Prof Sarah Kettley led an discussion in an panel with Dr Luis Soares about Co-Design success in the project and how it has been game changer for collecting and interacting with our case study.
22.10.2022 Joint symposium presentation at CAG Conference. Our Researchers led by Luis Soares, Bettina Zenz and Andrew Fletcher presented the project in Regina, Canada. This showcased the progress the project has made in the last year with data collection.
19.10.2022 Discussion of commercialisation. Discussing how research group can future seize commercialisation opportunities.
28.09.2022 Online Seminar with Luis Soares Discussing Co-design methods. HWL will be using including the Co-Design process the Research group will be piloting across next few weeks with our Case Study group.
17.08.2022 Webinar in 'Behaviour change & business'. This webinar focused on behaviour change and its applications in design. Design community experts delivered several talks on behaviour change, design and sustainability. The event was co-delivered with the Design Innovation Network.
05.07.2022 Design Labs Methods Toolkit Workshop. This workshop was a Design Informatics internal activity. Participants were invited to share one original design method they had developed. The goal was to help Edinburgh Future Institute Design Lab map how we can build a platform/shop window of original, participatory design methods developed by creative practitioners across the University of Edinburgh.
30.06.2022 Adding intelligence to Aging and Longevity. This workshop was organised by the National Innovation Centre for Ageing to explore the market of the Internet of Caring Things (IoCT). The first session was dedicated to connected health devices. The goal was to try and understand and contribute to how we can make these devices more meaningful to everyday life.
26.06.2022 Our Care Innovation workshop. Hosted with the GOALD Generating Older Active Lives Digitally (GOALD) project (supported by EPIC in Cornwall) brought together 20 care industry professionals and entrepreneurs to spotlight on digital tech innovation. One was James Godolphin, Assistant Manager, Perran Bay Care Home: “My motto is if you're standing still, you're actually going backwards, especially with tech in the modern world.”
17.06.2022 Care Innovation workshops. 20 care industry professionals and entrepreneurs joined one our Care Innovation workshops hosted with the GOALD Generating Older Active Lives Digitally (GOALD) project. The workshop highlighted many important insights which will be taken into the co-design stages of Healthier Working Lives Programme.
30.01.2022 Impact (Improving Adult Care Together) Survey Report. Most people would like to see funding to involve people who draw on care and support, carers and practitioners; practical support to make changes to social care on the ground; and opportunities for people to work on practical changes together.
02.12.2021 Barclays Eagle Labs. Creative Venue presented HWL to Barclays Eagle Labs healthtech entrepreneurs to provide the opportunity for enterprises to be HWL Traillblazers. 20 business attended chaired by Jen Estherby, Eagle Labs HealthTech Lead.
15-16.11.2021 Healthy Ageing 2021 Conference. Reflective of the wide breadth of areas covered by the Healthy Ageing domain itself, the Healthy Ageing 2021 conference was designed to inspire debate and discussion across a wide number of important topics, ensuring there was something of value and interest for all. Professor Linda Mckie joined a panel debate. Find out more
30.10.2021 Healthy Ageing by Design. 80% of participants reported that this programme had somewhat or greatly increased their perceptions of the importance of design, and 100% agreed that the programme helped them develop or progress their project. At this webinar we launch our report, which shares learnings, tools, resources and insights from the entrepreneurs, experts and investors who participated in the Healthy Ageing by Design growth programme. Find out more
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Funding Body: UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
Amount: £1.37 million
Period: March 2021 - February 2024