Quality in Ageing and Older Adults: Volume 20 Issue 2

Impact of a dementia-specific program of equine-assisted activities: providers’ perspectives

Beth Fields, Wendy Wood, Rebecca Lassell

Establishing acceptability of complex interventions to stakeholders is vital in early scientific development. The purpose of this paper is to ascertain the acceptability of a…

Linkage of social care and hospital admissions data to explore non-delivery of planned home care for older people in Scotland

Josie Evans, Karen Methven, Nicola Cunningham

As part of a pilot studyassessing the feasibility of record-linking health and social care data, the purpose of this paper is to examine patterns of non-delivery of home care…

The ageing process in older adults’ narratives of family violence

Ana João Santos, Ana Paula Gil, Oscar Ribeiro

The purpose of this paper is to examine, through a qualitative lens, how community elder abuse and the ageing process are represented in the older adults’ narratives reporting…

Team psychological formulation to create a shared understanding of distress: a qualitative study in an older people’s mental health inpatient setting

Abi Tarran-Jones, S.J. Summers, Sarah Dexter-Smith, Sarah Craven-Staines

Team psychological formulation is an organisational intervention aimed at developing a shared understanding of a person’s mental health difficulties. There is a lack of evidence…

Loneliness in later life: a cross-sectional survey analysis of place-based factors in Ireland

Sarah Gibney, Tara Moore, Sinead Shannon

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the age-friendliness of local environments and self-reported loneliness for a representative sample of…