Study shares findings into preventative work to support the health and wellbeing of older people

The PROP study (Preventive Role of social care for Older People: triggers, judgement calls and processes) has published findings from their programme that looked at what in-home and out-of-home community services do to support older people’s health and wellbeing.

The study, which focused on South London and was run by King’s College London and supported by the NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research), explored the work of homecare agencies, befriending services, lunch clubs for minority groups and men’s sheds that support older people who live alone. The researchers found that people working and volunteering in these services routinely keep an eye on people’s health and wellbeing and were well-placed to spot small changes and follow up on a wide range of concerns, as well as responding to emergencies.

Outputs from the study are now available, including a briefing that summarises the PROP findings and a series of vignettes showing individual examples of health and wellbeing concerns that services followed up.

Find out more and access the PROP study resources here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/prop