NIHR Policy Research Unit in Healthy Ageing (NIHR HAPRU)
@nihrhapru.bsky.social
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Policy Research Unit in Healthy Ageing aims to produce timely, high-quality evidence for policymakers. We are a collaboration between Newcastle University, The University of Manchester and the LSE.
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At @commonshealth.bsky.social today, I asked @nihrhapru.bsky.social's Prof Cris Todd about exercise to prevent frailty in older people.
Exercises like tai chi and yoga were common ways to keep older people exercising, but these successful programs often disappear when the initial funding dries up.
Exercises like tai chi and yoga were common ways to keep older people exercising, but these successful programs often disappear when the initial funding dries up.
November 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
At @commonshealth.bsky.social today, I asked @nihrhapru.bsky.social's Prof Cris Todd about exercise to prevent frailty in older people.
Exercises like tai chi and yoga were common ways to keep older people exercising, but these successful programs often disappear when the initial funding dries up.
Exercises like tai chi and yoga were common ways to keep older people exercising, but these successful programs often disappear when the initial funding dries up.
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Join us on Wednesday, 19 November for a webinar with @nihrhapru.bsky.social focused on brain health, prevention & future care needs.
Dr Harriet Demnitz-King and Prof Naaheed Mukadam will present their work from the #denpruQM prevention theme.
Find out more and register here:
tinyurl.com/y3nzw3c4
Dr Harriet Demnitz-King and Prof Naaheed Mukadam will present their work from the #denpruQM prevention theme.
Find out more and register here:
tinyurl.com/y3nzw3c4
November 10, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Join us on Wednesday, 19 November for a webinar with @nihrhapru.bsky.social focused on brain health, prevention & future care needs.
Dr Harriet Demnitz-King and Prof Naaheed Mukadam will present their work from the #denpruQM prevention theme.
Find out more and register here:
tinyurl.com/y3nzw3c4
Dr Harriet Demnitz-King and Prof Naaheed Mukadam will present their work from the #denpruQM prevention theme.
Find out more and register here:
tinyurl.com/y3nzw3c4
Publication from one of our jointly funded PhD students (with @vivensa.bsky.social): "Culturally appropriate physical activity promotion strategy package among older Chinese adults in the UK: a feasibility randomised control trial protocol".
pilotfeasibilitystudies.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
pilotfeasibilitystudies.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
November 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Publication from one of our jointly funded PhD students (with @vivensa.bsky.social): "Culturally appropriate physical activity promotion strategy package among older Chinese adults in the UK: a feasibility randomised control trial protocol".
pilotfeasibilitystudies.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
pilotfeasibilitystudies.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
📢New publication from one of our jointly funded PhD students (with the Vivensa Foundation): "Exploring the acceptability of engaging in physical activity amongst older adults living in socioeconomically deprived areas after the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study". doi.org/10.1186/s128...
Exploring the acceptability of engaging in physical activity amongst older adults living in socioeconomically deprived areas after the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study - BMC Public Health
Background Older adults from lower socioeconomic status (SES) groups have lower physical activity levels compared to those from higher SES groups. During the COVID-19 pandemic, these disparities in ph...
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October 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
📢New publication from one of our jointly funded PhD students (with the Vivensa Foundation): "Exploring the acceptability of engaging in physical activity amongst older adults living in socioeconomically deprived areas after the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study". doi.org/10.1186/s128...
If you missed our webinar today on "What works to promote active ageing", you can watch the YouTube video here: youtube.com/watch?v=TJPq... and read more about the research project here: hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2024/07/30/p...
October 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
If you missed our webinar today on "What works to promote active ageing", you can watch the YouTube video here: youtube.com/watch?v=TJPq... and read more about the research project here: hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2024/07/30/p...
Join us tomorrow for a free webinar 12-1pm - "What works to promote active ageing: reviewing the evidence for reducing inequalities in physical activity". Register here: bit.ly/4n1XWWA. Read more about the research project: hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2024/07/30/p...
October 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Join us tomorrow for a free webinar 12-1pm - "What works to promote active ageing: reviewing the evidence for reducing inequalities in physical activity". Register here: bit.ly/4n1XWWA. Read more about the research project: hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2024/07/30/p...
🚀 We’ve launched our official LinkedIn page for the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Healthy Ageing (HAPRU)!
Follow us over on LinkedIn for updates on our latest research, publications, events, and more.
🔗 www.linkedin.com/company/nihr...
#HealthyAgeing #NIHR #PolicyResearch #HAPRU #LinkedInLaunch
Follow us over on LinkedIn for updates on our latest research, publications, events, and more.
🔗 www.linkedin.com/company/nihr...
#HealthyAgeing #NIHR #PolicyResearch #HAPRU #LinkedInLaunch
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October 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
🚀 We’ve launched our official LinkedIn page for the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Healthy Ageing (HAPRU)!
Follow us over on LinkedIn for updates on our latest research, publications, events, and more.
🔗 www.linkedin.com/company/nihr...
#HealthyAgeing #NIHR #PolicyResearch #HAPRU #LinkedInLaunch
Follow us over on LinkedIn for updates on our latest research, publications, events, and more.
🔗 www.linkedin.com/company/nihr...
#HealthyAgeing #NIHR #PolicyResearch #HAPRU #LinkedInLaunch
📢New blog from our team: "Getting active to support healthy ageing: what works to support disadvantaged communities?" bit.ly/4pQZQel. Also, register for our free webinar taking place via Teams on 15.10.25 - "What works to promote active ageing" bit.ly/4n1XWWA
Getting active to support healthy ageing: what works to support disadvantaged communities?
Looking at how to promote active ageing
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October 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
📢New blog from our team: "Getting active to support healthy ageing: what works to support disadvantaged communities?" bit.ly/4pQZQel. Also, register for our free webinar taking place via Teams on 15.10.25 - "What works to promote active ageing" bit.ly/4n1XWWA
Great to see Abodunrin Aminu and Katie Davies representing HAPRU at #WONCA2025 in Lisbon, with their poster, 'Disparities in the use of remote general practice consultations: learning from the COVID-19 pandemic, an analysis of 19 million electronic health records' @WoncaWorld
🔗 tinyurl.com/3j4c69dr
🔗 tinyurl.com/3j4c69dr
September 19, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Great to see Abodunrin Aminu and Katie Davies representing HAPRU at #WONCA2025 in Lisbon, with their poster, 'Disparities in the use of remote general practice consultations: learning from the COVID-19 pandemic, an analysis of 19 million electronic health records' @WoncaWorld
🔗 tinyurl.com/3j4c69dr
🔗 tinyurl.com/3j4c69dr
Join us for a free webinar on 15th October 12-1pm - "What works to promote active ageing: reviewing the evidence for reducing inequalities in physical activity'. Register: bit.ly/4n1XWWA. Read more about the research project: hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2024/07/30/p...
September 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Join us for a free webinar on 15th October 12-1pm - "What works to promote active ageing: reviewing the evidence for reducing inequalities in physical activity'. Register: bit.ly/4n1XWWA. Read more about the research project: hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2024/07/30/p...
Reposted by NIHR Policy Research Unit in Healthy Ageing (NIHR HAPRU)
Join us on 19 November for a joint webinar with the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Healthy Ageing focused on brain health, prevention & future care needs.
@hdemnitzking.bsky.social and Prof Naaheed Mukadam will present their #denpruQM work.
More info ⬇️
tinyurl.com/y3nzw3c4
@nihrhapru.bsky.social
@hdemnitzking.bsky.social and Prof Naaheed Mukadam will present their #denpruQM work.
More info ⬇️
tinyurl.com/y3nzw3c4
@nihrhapru.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Join us on 19 November for a joint webinar with the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Healthy Ageing focused on brain health, prevention & future care needs.
@hdemnitzking.bsky.social and Prof Naaheed Mukadam will present their #denpruQM work.
More info ⬇️
tinyurl.com/y3nzw3c4
@nihrhapru.bsky.social
@hdemnitzking.bsky.social and Prof Naaheed Mukadam will present their #denpruQM work.
More info ⬇️
tinyurl.com/y3nzw3c4
@nihrhapru.bsky.social
📢New publication from our team: "The meaning of ‘quality’ of homecare for older people: a scoping review" bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
July 31, 2025 at 12:43 PM
📢New publication from our team: "The meaning of ‘quality’ of homecare for older people: a scoping review" bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
‘How do we know if HSR impacts on policy?’ - a great workshop this morning led by @annetteboaz.bsky.social. The workshop was full of ideas of how to do things differently with fantastic engagement in the room!
#HSRUK2025
@barbarahanratty.bsky.social
#HSRUK2025
@barbarahanratty.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
‘How do we know if HSR impacts on policy?’ - a great workshop this morning led by @annetteboaz.bsky.social. The workshop was full of ideas of how to do things differently with fantastic engagement in the room!
#HSRUK2025
@barbarahanratty.bsky.social
#HSRUK2025
@barbarahanratty.bsky.social
Today our NIHR HAPRU Director @barbarahanratty.bsky.social contributed to the HSR UK Conference 2025 opening plenary panel, "The NHS Ten Year Plan: How might health services research respond?" #HSRUK2025
Great opening plenary at @hsruk.bsky.social about how we as H&SC researchers make impact on policy. Lots of useful advice: share green shoots with caveats, involve local MPs, acknowledge different timescales, ensure representativeness throughout, work with third sector to mobilise findings #HSRUK25
July 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Today our NIHR HAPRU Director @barbarahanratty.bsky.social contributed to the HSR UK Conference 2025 opening plenary panel, "The NHS Ten Year Plan: How might health services research respond?" #HSRUK2025
Team HAPRU were delighted to showcase their work, enjoy insightful presentations and engage with colleagues at the British Society of Gerontology 54th Annual Conference at the University of Surrey this week! #bsg2025
June 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Team HAPRU were delighted to showcase their work, enjoy insightful presentations and engage with colleagues at the British Society of Gerontology 54th Annual Conference at the University of Surrey this week! #bsg2025
📢New blog from our team: "Who gets to age healthily? New research shows frailty-free years are not shared equally in England". You can read it here: hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2025/05/12/w... and find the related
@biomedcentral.bsky.social publication here: bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
@biomedcentral.bsky.social publication here: bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Who gets to age healthily? New research shows frailty-free years are not shared equally in England
Looking at long term health conditions and later life disability
hapru.nihr.ac.uk
May 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
📢New blog from our team: "Who gets to age healthily? New research shows frailty-free years are not shared equally in England". You can read it here: hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2025/05/12/w... and find the related
@biomedcentral.bsky.social publication here: bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
@biomedcentral.bsky.social publication here: bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
New paper by one of our jointly funded PhD candidates with
@vivensa.bsky.social - Schenelle Dlima @schenelled.bsky.social 'Frailty indices based on routinely collected data: a scoping review'. You can read it here: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@vivensa.bsky.social - Schenelle Dlima @schenelled.bsky.social 'Frailty indices based on routinely collected data: a scoping review'. You can read it here: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
May 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
New paper by one of our jointly funded PhD candidates with
@vivensa.bsky.social - Schenelle Dlima @schenelled.bsky.social 'Frailty indices based on routinely collected data: a scoping review'. You can read it here: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@vivensa.bsky.social - Schenelle Dlima @schenelled.bsky.social 'Frailty indices based on routinely collected data: a scoping review'. You can read it here: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📢New blog from our team 'Unequal Care at the End of Life: What the Evidence Tells Us', where our Research Associate & PhD candidate Patience Kunonga talks about her work on ethnic inequalities in palliative care prescribing in high-income countries. Read it here: www.hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2025/05/07/u...
Unequal Care at the End of Life: What the Evidence Tells Us
Reflecting on end of life care
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May 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM
📢New blog from our team 'Unequal Care at the End of Life: What the Evidence Tells Us', where our Research Associate & PhD candidate Patience Kunonga talks about her work on ethnic inequalities in palliative care prescribing in high-income countries. Read it here: www.hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2025/05/07/u...
📢New paper from one of our PhD students, Patience Kunonga, published in BMC Palliative Care. 'Ethnic inequalities in palliative care prescribing in high income countries'. You can read it here: bmcpalliatcare.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
May 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
📢New paper from one of our PhD students, Patience Kunonga, published in BMC Palliative Care. 'Ethnic inequalities in palliative care prescribing in high income countries'. You can read it here: bmcpalliatcare.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Check out this new podcast from Lancet Healthy Longevity and our very own Dr Andrew Kingston - talking about health inequalities. Listen here: buzzsprout.com/1746618/epis...
Full paper here: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Full paper here: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
May 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Check out this new podcast from Lancet Healthy Longevity and our very own Dr Andrew Kingston - talking about health inequalities. Listen here: buzzsprout.com/1746618/epis...
Full paper here: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Full paper here: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📢New blog from our team: 'Bridging the Digital Gap: Making Healthcare More Accessible for Older Minoritised Adults'
Read it in full here: www.hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2025/03/20/b...
Read it in full here: www.hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2025/03/20/b...
March 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
📢New blog from our team: 'Bridging the Digital Gap: Making Healthcare More Accessible for Older Minoritised Adults'
Read it in full here: www.hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2025/03/20/b...
Read it in full here: www.hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2025/03/20/b...
📢New article from our team: 'Area-level socioeconomic inequalities in activities of daily living disability-free life expectancy in England: a modelling study'
Read it in full here: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Read it in full here: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
March 20, 2025 at 10:31 AM
📢New article from our team: 'Area-level socioeconomic inequalities in activities of daily living disability-free life expectancy in England: a modelling study'
Read it in full here: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Read it in full here: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Don't miss our free webinar tomorrow - "Promoting healthy ageing: inclusive approaches to physical activity for older adults" - all are welcome! Register here: hapru.nihr.ac.uk/category/upc... -
March 18, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Don't miss our free webinar tomorrow - "Promoting healthy ageing: inclusive approaches to physical activity for older adults" - all are welcome! Register here: hapru.nihr.ac.uk/category/upc... -
📢New blog from our team: 'Creating social care that works for older people'. Read it in full here: www.hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2025/03/13/c...
Creating Social Care That Works for Older People
Looking at whether the social care that is available is what older people would like
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March 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
📢New blog from our team: 'Creating social care that works for older people'. Read it in full here: www.hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2025/03/13/c...
📢New article from our team: 'Differences in the risk of frailty based on care receipt, unmet care needs and socio-economic inequalities' published in the Journal of Frailty and Aging.
Read it in full here: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Read it in full here: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
March 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
📢New article from our team: 'Differences in the risk of frailty based on care receipt, unmet care needs and socio-economic inequalities' published in the Journal of Frailty and Aging.
Read it in full here: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Read it in full here: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...