Extending active life for older people with cognitive impairment through innovation in the visitor economy of the natural environment (ENLIVEN)

通过自然环境游客经济的创新延长患有认知障碍的老年人的积极生活（ENLIVEN）

• 批准号: ES/V016172/1
• 负责人: Linda Clare
• 金额: $ 202.1万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FV016172%2F1
• 关键词: Extending; active; life; older; people

Getting out and about in nature is good for us. It helps us stay healthy and active, stimulates our brains, keeps us in contact with other people, and brings pleasure and joy to our lives. During the COVID-19 pandemic, spending time in the garden or watching nature from the doorstep has helped people cope and feel connected. Older people living with cognitive impairment, and people with young-onset dementia, say that nature helps them in lots of ways. They feel more engaged, more enthusiastic, more hopeful, more resilient and better able to deal with challenges. Their family members agree that getting out and about in nature is helpful. This could be as simple as spending time in a nearby park or garden, or it could be a visit or organised outing to a special place or beauty spot that rekindles past memories.They also say there are things that get in the way and stop them enjoying nature as much as they would like. These include lack of facilities such as seats where you can have a rest, features like awkward steps that make it hard to get around, fear of getting lost due to lack of signs, staff seeming unhelpful, or a sense that older people are unwelcome. We need to remove these barriers and change attitudes.The places where people go to enjoy nature are usually managed by businesses, local councils, social enterprises and charities. We will call them 'providers'. Many providers want to make it easier for older people living with cognitive impairments and their families to access the places they manage, but do not know how. There is little guidance available for providers, because the amount of research so far has been small. Providers need to know how to respond to a growing market. If people are more satisfied with their visit to a particular place, they will tell others and more people will come. This will generate new business. The provider can then add better facilities. It is important that more research is done to help make these changes. A good number of providers and other organisations are keen to work with us on this project.Our research project will ask: What can be done to make outdoor places easier for older people living with cognitive impairment (including people with young-onset dementia) and their family members of all ages to visit?We will do this in 4 stages.We will involve older people (for the purposes of this project, this means older people living with cognitive impairment, including people with young-onset dementia) and their families in all of the stages. We will involve provider organisations in all of the stages as well.Stage 1We will invite a wide range of people, providers and other organisations to send us information. We will talk to older people about their experiences of getting out and about in nature and what would make this easier. We will talk to providers to find out what works well and what could be improved. We will learn from the research that has already been done.Stage 2We will work with older people and their families, and with managers and staff from provider organisations, to find ways to help people enjoy getting out and about in nature more. We will come up with a variety of ideas, to allow for different preferences and abilities. Stage 3We will test these ideas out. We will work with different kinds of providers in different areas to find ways of making the places they run more accessible and welcoming. We will help them make changes. We will find out how well these changes work by talking with the older people who visit and with managers and staff. Stage 4When we have finished we will pull together everything we have learned and share it with as many people as possible. We will work with older people and providers to develop resources such as guidelines and toolkits, and networks for sharing information. This will allow more people to use the results of our research.

出去走走对我们有好处。它帮助我们保持健康和活跃，刺激我们的大脑，让我们与其他人保持联系，并为我们的生活带来快乐和喜悦。在COVID-19大流行期间，花时间在花园里或在家门口观看大自然有助于人们科普并感受到联系。患有认知障碍的老年人和老年痴呆症的人说，大自然在很多方面帮助了他们。他们感到更投入、更热情、更有希望、更有韧性，更有能力应对挑战。他们的家庭成员同意，走出去，在大自然中是有帮助的。这可以是在附近的公园或花园里度过一段时间，也可以是参观或组织郊游到一个特殊的地方或景点，重新点燃过去的记忆。他们还说，有些事情阻碍了他们享受自然，因为他们想要的。这些包括缺乏设施，如座位，你可以休息，功能，如笨拙的步骤，使它很难走动，害怕迷路，由于缺乏迹象，工作人员似乎不乐于助人，或感觉老年人不受欢迎。我们需要消除这些障碍，改变态度。人们去享受自然的地方通常由企业、地方议会、社会企业和慈善机构管理。我们称他们为“供应商”。许多供应商希望让患有认知障碍的老年人及其家人更容易进入他们管理的地方，但不知道如何。提供者几乎没有指导，因为到目前为止的研究数量很少。供应商需要知道如何应对不断增长的市场。如果人们对他们访问的某个地方更满意，他们会告诉其他人，更多的人会来。这将产生新的业务。然后，供应商可以添加更好的设施。重要的是要做更多的研究来帮助实现这些变化。我们的研究项目将提出这样一个问题：如何让认知障碍的老年人（包括非典型性痴呆症患者）及其所有年龄段的家人更容易去户外活动？我们将分4个阶段进行。我们将让老年人（就本项目而言，这意味着患有认知障碍的老年人，包括患有痴呆症的人）及其家人参与所有阶段。我们也会让供应商组织参与所有阶段。第一阶段我们会邀请各种各样的人、供应商和其他组织向我们发送信息。我们将与老年人谈论他们在大自然中外出和活动的经历，以及什么会使这更容易。我们将与供应商讨论，找出哪些工作做得好，哪些可以改进。我们将从已经完成的研究中学习。第二阶段我们将与老年人及其家人，以及提供机构的管理人员和员工合作，寻找帮助人们更喜欢外出和在大自然中活动的方法。我们将提出各种想法，以允许不同的偏好和能力。第三阶段我们将测试这些想法。我们将与不同地区的不同类型的供应商合作，寻找使他们经营的地方更容易接近和欢迎的方法。我们将帮助他们做出改变。我们将通过与来访的老年人、经理和工作人员交谈，了解这些变化的效果。第四阶段当我们完成后，我们将把我们学到的一切汇集在一起，并与尽可能多的人分享。我们将与老年人和提供者合作，开发指导方针和工具包等资源，并建立信息共享网络。这将使更多的人使用我们的研究成果。

项目成果

Operationalizing Transformative Tourism: Creating Dementia-Friendly Outdoor and Nature-Based Visitor Experiences

• DOI: 10.1177/00472875231217735
• 发表时间: 2023-12-29
• 期刊: JOURNAL OF TRAVEL RESEARCH
• 影响因子: 8.9
• 作者: Page，Stephen J.;Connell，Joanne;Clare，Linda
• 通讯作者: Clare，Linda