Project:
The LiveWell Programme: Developing pragmatic interventions to enhance health and wellbeing in later life
From March 2010 to February 2015
Project Leader(s): Management team: Prof. John Mathers (Leader investigator), Prof. Martin White (co-investigator), Dr Thomas Meyer (co-investigator), Prof. Paula Moynihan (co-investigator), Prof. Lynn Rochester (co-investigator), Dr Falko Sniehotta (co-inverstigator).
Staff: Dr Jose Lara (Senior Research Associate), Dr. Ben Heaven (Research Associate), Dr. Nicki Hobbs (Research Associate). Dr Alan Godfrey (Research Assocate). Dr Elizabeth Evans (Research Associate) Mrs Sanchia Coatsworth (Project administrator), Mrs Michelle Barr (PA to Prof. John Mathers)
Contact: Professor John Mathers
Sponsors: Medical Research Council on behalf of the Lifelong Health and Wellbeing Consortium
Project Description
The increasing burden of frailty and chronic poor health currently accompanying longevity is a public health problem. The challenge to health researchers is to find ways of improving health and maintaining wellbeing throughout the life-course.
LiveWell, a five year multidisciplinary research programme, aims to develop and pilot an integrated suite of well-founded, pragmatic interventions that are effective in promoting health and wellbeing in later life. In an innovative approach, LiveWell will focus on the retirement period, a “window of opportunity” in which novel interventions in key areas such as diet, physical activity and social interactions are more likely to be successful. To achieve this, we will develop novel ways of delivering these interventions in order to encourage sustained behaviour change and improved social circumstances. We will also define a suite of outcome measures, including relevant biomarkers, and identify tools appropriate for capturing the healthy ageing phenotype. The intervention package resulting from this programme will be tested in later studies.
Collaborators:
Dr. Mike Trenell, Prof. Ashley Adamson, Prof. John Matthews, Prof. Thomas von Zglinicki, Dr. Suzanne Moffatt, Dr. Lynn Corner, Prof. Patrick Olivier, Prof. Mike Catt, Dr Vera Araujo-Soares
The LiveWell Dissemenation Event:
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Michelle Barr
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Sanchia Coatsworth
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Dr Ben Heaven
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Dr Nicola Hobbs
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Dr Jose Lara-Gallegos
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Professor John Mathers
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Professor Paula Moynihan
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Professor Martin White
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