1st Edition

Routledge International Handbook of Participatory Approaches in Ageing Research

Edited By Anna Urbaniak, Anna Wanka Copyright 2024
484 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

484 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This Handbook presents established and innovative perspectives on involving older adults as co-creators in ageing research. It reorients research and policy toward more inclusive and adequate designs that capture the voices and needs of older adults. The Handbook: introduces types of participatory approaches in ageing research; highlights key methodological aspects of these approaches;... Read more

List of contributors

Foreword

1 Participatory approaches in ageing research: An Overview

Anna Urbaniak and Anna Wanka

PART I: Methodological aspects of participatory approaches in ageing research

2 Role of reflexivity in challenging participation inequality in participatory approaches with older adults

Anna Urbaniak

3 The willingness of older adults to engage in participatory research: Empirical Findings from Switzerland

Alexander Seifert

4 Involving older adults in the data analysis process

Julia Nolte and Hamid B. Turker

5 Participatory research and development approaches in applied ageing research

Birgit Aigner-Walder, Marika Gruber, Gabriele Hagendorfer-Jauk, Daniela Krainer, Johannes Oberzaucher and Christine Pichler

PART II: Designing research together with older adults

6 Setting the research agenda together as a form of productive ageing. Rationale and exemplary cases

Mariano Sánchez and Raúl López-López

7 Co-creating culturally nuanced social measures with indigenous elders

Charles Waldegrave, Chris Cunningham, Catherine Love, Giang Nguyen and Monica Mercury

8 Tensions in transformation: Participatory Approaches in Sustainable Energy Technology Projects in the UK and India

Carol Ann Maddock, Vanessa Burholt, Deborah Jane Morgan, Kushboo Ahire and Charles Musselwhite

PART III: Collecting data together with older adults

9 Promenade parlante: Intergenerational Dialogue, Urban Scenography, and Co-Creation

Cynthia Imogen Hammond, Shauna Janssen, and Eric Craven

10 Older individuals’ active participation in data collection in diverse settings in South Africa

Vera Roos

11 Challenges and opportunities of new product co-creation with older consumers

Krzysztof Klincewicz, Katarzyna Dębska, Katarzyna Król, Marcin Skupiński and Magdalena Zatorska

PART 4: Analysing and validating results together with older adults

12 Experience of member check with older adults in non-participatory-research-culture

Irena Zemaitaityte, Jolanta Pivorienė and Agata Katkoniene

13 “We talked about years that I experienced as well!” – the role of age in the participatory design of phone befriending services in Estonia

Tiina Tambaum

14 When care is moving in – participatory approaches to elicit needs and desires when healthcare has become a natural part of your daily life

Giana Carli Lorenzini and Johanna Persson

15 Older adults in research: A participatory approach to sexuality and intimacy based on an example from Poland

Mariola Bieńko and Damian Kalita

PART 5: Disseminating results together with older adults

16 Promoting civic participation: Comparing three co-produced models of lifelong learning and cultural engagement in the UK

Anna Goulding and Thomas Scharf

17 Making graphic magazines with people living with dementia: The case for participatory dissemination

Sarah Campbell and Andrew Clark

18 The later life audio and radio co-operative: Creating sustainable: communities from participatory action research

Arlind Reuter and Thomas Scharf

19 The living library – a participatory approach to societal research impact

Bram Vanhoutte and Neil Dymond-Green

PART 6: Doing the whole research process together

20 The Belgian ageing studies: Peer research as an instrument to empower older people

Nico De Witte, Dominique Verté and Emily Verté

21 A service provider approach to rights-based research

Meg Polacsek and Tabitha Porter

22 Patient partner engagement in dementia research during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

Lillian Hung and Mario Gregorio

PART 7: Voices and experiences of older co-researchers

23 Working together to research the everyday lives of people living with dementia and those supporting them

Diane Seddon, Teresa (Dory) Davies and Hannah Jelley

24 Co-creating research: Co-researchers’ parallel conversations with Māori elders

Charles Waldegrave and Monica Mercury

25 Co-creating research: Co-researchers’ parallel conversations from the participatory action research project ‘CareComLabs’

Shkumbin Gashi and Erich Kohler

26 Doing research together – insights from the intergenerational project “DigiGen” in Germany

Anna Wanka, Miranda Leontowitsch, Friedrich Wolf and Horst Schöberl

27 Co-creating research: Co-researchers’ parallel conversations from the project ‘SEVEN – Socially Excluded Older Adults: Voices and Experiences’

Charlotte Gruber and Katrin Lehner

PART 8: Future perspectives in the field of participatory approaches in ageing research

28 Participation for mission-oriented innovation: A governance perspective

Julian Stubbe, Anne Busch-Heizmann and Maxie Lutze

29 Employing citizen science to understand the contemporary needs of older adults accessing and using technology in a pandemic

Hannah R. Marston, Deborah Jane Morgan, Gemma Wilson-Menzfeld, Jessica Gates, Carol Ann Maddock, Elisabeth J., Jenny Philips, Gavin Bailey, and Julie Nicholson

30 Co-producing knowledge: Reflections from a community-based participatory research project on caring communities to strengthen ageing in place

Heidi Kaspar, Claudia Müller, Shkumbin Gashi and Dennis Kirschsieper

31 Epistemology and methodology of participatory research with older adults: A comparison of four age-friendly city national experiences

Myriam Leleu, Mario Paris, Hugo Bertillot, Suzanne Garon, Robert Grabczan, Olivier Masson, Thibauld Moulaert and Damien Vanneste

32 Participatory approaches in ageing research: Future perspectives

Anna Urbaniak and Anna Wanka

Index

Biography

Anna Urbaniak is a social sciences researcher with expertise in life-course transitions, the re/production of social inequalities across the life course, and participatory approaches in ageing research. She is a founder of PAAR: Research Network on Participatory Approaches in Ageing Research and a chair of COST Action CA22167 on Participatory Approaches with Older Adults (PAAR- net). She is also a co-chair of the Research Network on Ageing in Europe (European Sociological Association). She is working as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Vienna (Austria) and Jagiellonian University (Poland), and as an Assistant Professor at Cracow University of Economics (Poland).

Anna Wanka is a sociologist and critical gerontologist interested in the social construction of age. Her areas of expertise comprise the social practices of un/doing age, life course transitions/retirement and the re/production of social inequalities across the life course, ageing and technologies, age-friendly cities and communities, mixed-methods, and participatory research. She is co-founder of PAAR: Research Network on Participatory Approaches in Ageing Research and a co-chair of COST Action CA22167 on Participatory Approaches with Older Adults (PAAR- net). She is working as a research group leader at Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Germany.