Synneve Dahlin-Ivanoff & Hanna Falk Erhag
Synneve Dahlin-Ivanoff is a senior professor in occupational science at the at the Centre for Ageing and Health – Age Cap, the Sahlgrenska Academy at Gothenburg University. She is the leader of the multidisciplinary frail elderly research group. She has experience with both quantitative and qualitative methods and has extensive experience in conducting intervention studies (RCT) with and for frail older people in collaboration with hospital, primary care, health and social care. Her area of research is to study measures to support ageing well at home, both among older people who are already frail, and those with risk of developing frailty.
Hanna Falk Erhag is an Associate Professor in Health Care Science at the University of Gothenburg and a senior researcher at the Centre for Ageing and Health – Age Cap at the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg Sweden. Her areas of expertise are self-rated health and quality of life as personal ability in old age. More specifically, her studies focus on the demographic, cognitive, behavioral risk and protective factors of self-rated health in large population based samples of older adults aged 70-95 years that have been followed for more than 25 years, and how changes in self-rated health reflect psychological adaptation to worsening health and functional limitations in old age.
Hanna Falk Erhag is an Associate Professor in Health Care Science at the University of Gothenburg and a senior researcher at the Centre for Ageing and Health – Age Cap at the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg Sweden. Her areas of expertise are self-rated health and quality of life as personal ability in old age. More specifically, her studies focus on the demographic, cognitive, behavioral risk and protective factors of self-rated health in large population based samples of older adults aged 70-95 years that have been followed for more than 25 years, and how changes in self-rated health reflect psychological adaptation to worsening health and functional limitations in old age.
Yes, it was worth it! Older adults’ experiences of participating in a research study
Large population studies are common, including on older adults, but little time is spent on understanding the priorities and problems of older adults who participate in research studies. In this blog post by Professors Synneve Dahlin-Ivanoff and Hanna Falk Erhag, they discuss their new paper in BMC Geriatrics about the benefits of including older adults throughout the research process in order to reflect the users’ needs and viewpoints to a greater extent, and to enhance the certainty that the new knowledge that is produced will be of benefit to those it concerns.
Why is it important to include participants as partners?
Longitudinal population-based cohort studies that assess health-related exposure outcomes can provide important knowledge about the needs of older adults, and are critical to our understanding of the aging process. Listening to the voice of research participants is not new in ageing research. It is, however, important to distinguish between older adults as the subjects of research and older adults as partners in the research process. While issues of engagement can be similar, the relationship is quite different – involving older adults in decisions about the research process is about a shift in power – it is about building partnership.
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