Socio-Technical Resilience for Targeted Community Healthcare
We now have ethical approval to commence working with 3-5 older people who have a variety of care needs and circles of support networks. With Age UK Exeter, we will work with these volunteers over several months, to understand their
We had our regular project team meeting in London on the 28th of July. We have started a pilot study in Exeter. A privacy elicitation study is being planned for Milton Keynes. Mohammed Bennasar has formally joined the project full-time. Akshika Wijesundara
We will continue scoping the project by reviewing existing healthcare technologies, literature on the requirements and needs of older people when engaging with new technology, and contacting other researchers who are engaging in similar research. We will have more direct talks with key stakeholders from
Dr Mohamed Bennasar will be joining The Open University research group in Milton Keynes in July. Mohamed’s background is in signal processing and machine learning techniques for clinical diagnostic tools, and most recently he has been working on applying this
Jessica Cohen from Age UK Exeter has commenced working with us. Jessica will be responsible for Exeter client engagement and support throughout the project, as well as contributing her own experience and knowledge of working with older people.
This is the first blog for the Socio-Technical Resilience for Targeted Community Healthcare (STRETCH) project. Thanks to those partners who we met with in the months of January-March. The project officially commenced in April. Please also see our website https://www.stretchproject.org/ which will be