Tailoring cultural offers with and for diverse older users of social prescribing (TOUS): A realist evaluation

与社会处方的不同老年用户一起定制文化优惠（TOUS）：现实主义评估

• 批准号: MR/Y010000/1
• 负责人: Stephanie Tierney
• 金额: $ 41.68万
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FY010000%2F1
• 关键词: Tailoring; cultural; offers; diverse; older

Problems in life that affect how people feel cannot always be fixed with tablets or medication. For example, loneliness can lower people's mood, or worries about money can cause them to feel anxious. This may stop people looking after their health. A way of getting them help with such problems is through social prescribing. Social prescribing involves connecting people to 'community assets' - groups, organisations, services in their local area. Community assets can include exercise and arts classes, volunteering and advice services. Such connections can provide people with social, emotional or practical support. Link workers are a key part of social prescribing. They are employed (by the NHS, local councils or charities) to help people find such support. Older people might benefit from social prescribing. For example, if they have experienced a bereavement or lack purpose in life following retirement. Or they might have concerns about money as the cost of shopping, electricity and gas increases. As part of social prescribing, a link worker might connect an older person to support in the cultural sector; for example, to a dance or singing group, activities run at a museum or volunteering at a local theatre. Our previous research has highlighted that being connected to the cultural sector might: a) distract older people from concerns in life for a short period, b) help them make new friends, c) provide them with a space where they feel safe and welcomed, d) increase their confidence as they gain knowledge or skills through trying new things. Our previous research involved mainly talking to older people who described themselves as 'White British'. This new study will build on and expand what we learnt from the previous research. We will focus on cultural offers and opportunities that have been developed for or with people who may not have English as their first language and/or do not identify as White British. This will allow us to develop recommendations about producing accessible, acceptable and appropriate social prescribing cultural offers for older people [aged 60 and older] from ethnic minority groups. The research will:1. Identify what is already known about creating cultural activities or events for older people from ethnic minority groups. We will do this by reviewing relevant literature. 2. Map what is provided by the cultural sector in the UK; things that link workers could refer older people from ethnic minority groups to as part of social prescribing. We will do this by contacting a wide range of cultural organisations and asking them to complete a short questionnaire. 3. Explore what we can learn from cultural organisations that have tried to provide cultural offers that appeal to older people from diverse backgrounds. We will do this by spending time at six organisations that complete the questionnaire for the mapping referred to above. They will become our 'cases'. We will watch what happens there. We will also talk to people who work for the organisation or older people from ethnic minority groups engaging with it. We will pick these six cases so they are varied in terms of a) where they are located in the UK, b) groups they aim to attract, c) type of cultural offer provided, d) size of the organisation/operation. We will compare and contrast what we learn from each case. We will explain differences that may arise across these cases. We will bring information collected from these three elements together; a computer programme called NVIVO will help us with this. We will develop an explanation of how, why and when cultural provision that could form part of a social prescription might be beneficial (or not) to the well-being of older people from ethnic minority groups. We will share what we learn via written documents, videos and conference presentations. We will also hold an end of project meeting to talk to interested people about what we have found from the research.

生活中影响人们感觉的问题并不总是能用药片或药物来解决。例如，孤独会降低人们的情绪，或者对金钱的担忧会使他们感到焦虑。这可能会让人们忽视自己的健康。让他们帮助解决这些问题的一种方法是通过社会处方。社会处方涉及将人们与“社区资产”（当地的团体、组织、服务）联系起来。社区资产可以包括锻炼和艺术课程、志愿服务和咨询服务。这种联系可以为人们提供社会、情感或实际支持。链接工作者是社会处方的关键部分。他们受雇于（国民保健服务，地方议会或慈善机构），以帮助人们找到这样的支持。老年人可能受益于社会处方。例如，如果他们在退休后经历了丧亲之痛或缺乏生活目标。或者，随着购物、电力和天然气成本的增加，他们可能会担心钱的问题。作为社会处方的一部分，联系工作者可以将老年人与文化部门的支助联系起来;例如，与舞蹈或歌唱团体、博物馆举办的活动或当地剧院的志愿服务联系起来。我们之前的研究已经强调，与文化部门联系可能：a）在短时间内分散老年人对生活的关注，B）帮助他们结交新朋友，c）为他们提供一个安全和受欢迎的空间，d）增加他们的信心，因为他们通过尝试新事物获得知识或技能。我们之前的研究主要涉及与自称为“白色英国人”的老年人交谈。这项新的研究将建立在我们从以前的研究中学到的东西的基础上，并将其扩展。我们将专注于文化优惠和机会，已经开发或与人谁可能没有英语作为他们的第一语言和/或不确定为白色英国。这将使我们能够提出建议，为少数民族群体的老年人[60岁及以上]提供可获得、可接受和适当的社会处方文化服务。该研究将：1。确定为少数民族群体的老年人创造文化活动或事件的已知知识。我们将通过回顾相关文献来做到这一点。2.绘制英国文化部门提供的地图;将工人联系起来的东西可以将少数民族群体的老年人作为社会处方的一部分。为此，我们将联系广泛的文化组织，请他们填写一份简短的问卷。3.探索我们可以从文化组织那里学到什么，这些文化组织试图提供吸引不同背景的老年人的文化服务。我们将花时间在六个组织完成调查问卷，上面提到的映射。他们将成为我们的“案例”。我们将观察那里会发生什么。我们还将与为该组织工作的人或参与该组织的少数民族群体中的老年人交谈。我们将挑选这六个案例，以便它们在以下方面有所不同：a）它们位于英国的哪个地方，B）它们旨在吸引的群体，c）提供的文化产品类型，d）组织/运营的规模。我们将比较和对比我们从每个案例中学到的东西。我们将解释这些情况下可能出现的差异。我们将把从这三个方面收集到的信息汇集在一起;一个名为NVIVO的计算机程序将帮助我们做到这一点。我们将制定一个解释如何，为什么以及何时文化提供，可以形成一个社会处方的一部分可能是有益的（或不）从少数民族群体的老年人的福祉。我们将通过书面文件，视频和会议演示分享我们学到的东西。我们还将举行项目结束会议，与感兴趣的人讨论我们从研究中发现的问题。