Older old people – housing, health and care

Older old people – housing, health and care

Perspectives on well-being near the end of life,

care settings and moving in very old age

The "older old" constitute the fastest growing element of the population. The care sector is supporting older people with increasingly high care needs and growing numbers of people are dying older. But policy-makers and service planners rarely hear the perspectives of very old people, or of those who support them.

For many years researchers in the Institute of Public Health’s Public Health of Ageing Research Unit at the University of Cambridge have been surveying older local residents who had joined the Cambridge City over-75s Cohort study. Over the last decade we have been recording in-depth interviews with the participants in this long-running study of ageing, by then aged at least 95, and with their close relatives or other carers.

The team will share findings from their research examining three key issues of importance to the growing number of people now living into what has come to be called “older old age”, and are keen to hear the views of others. Join us on the day to hear key findings from our research and to discuss priority issues in one of three breakout sessions:

Session 1) Moving in very old age

Session 2) Experiences of formal and informal care

Session 3) Care at the end of life

This event is free to attend but booking is essential. Please book your place using the Eventbrite 'Register' button on this page or contact us (details below) if you would like a booking form for anyone without internet access.

When booking, please select which breakout session you would like to attend as places are limited. Places in these breakout workshops will be allocated as bookings are received in order of preferences.

Aims of the meeting:

• To share research findings with a wide range of interested people

• To discuss the implications and which messages are most important

• To make recommendations and plan next steps

Programme

Friday 3rd February 2017

Cambridge Professional Development Centre,

Foster Road, Trumpington, Cambridge, CB2 9NL

09.45 Registration

10.00 Welcome address

Daniel Zeichner, honorable MP for Cambridge

10.10 CC75C study’s “older old” people research programme

Evidence for practice from a long-running population- representative study: The Cambridge City over-75s Cohort study

10.20 Overview of research findings

Moving in very old age

How do very old people experience moving care settings?

What prompts moves in older old age? How are decisions made?

Experiences of formal and informal care in older old age

What are very old people’s experiences of receiving care from family and paid carers?

What are their views on care in different settings?

Dying at “a great age” – end of life care issues

What are very old people’s experiences and preferences? Where do they die?

What do relatives say they wish could have been managed differently?

11.20 Coffee/tea

11.40 Practice, planning and policy implications – parallel workshop sessions

Session 1 Moving in very old age

Session 2 Experiences of formal and informal care

Session 3 Care at the end of life

12.45 Feedback from workshops

13.15 Lunch and networking

14.00 Close

For further details, please phone 01223 330341

or e-mail Jane Fleming jane.fleming@phpc.cam.ac.uk

or Fiona Scheibl fs220@medschl.cam.ac.uk