KWILLT consultation event 22/09/2011
Dan facilitated a consultation event for the Keeping Warm in Later Life Together (KWILLT) project that took place on Monday 19 September. KWILLT is an National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funded Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) project led by Angela Tod from Sheffield Hallam University.
The project took place in Rotherham and involved interviewing more than 50 older people between the age of 55-95 about fuel poverty. These qualitative interviews and similar interviews conducted with key workers from health and social care were analysed and the findings used to create nine pen portraits or personas of older people. Each persona captured key attributes and attitudes from the sample of people interviewed and really helped bring the research findings to life. You can see a draft version of the pen portraits here
At the event, to give substance to the personas, a drama group did a performance for the audience from the perspectives of each of the older people so they could hear the voices of these people when they were discussing the practical barriers and how the project would progress.
Dan facilitated a group of clinical health staff from public, primary and secondary care. They discussed Proud Fred and Getting by Ben_Joan. There were lots of great ideas about how things could be done differently to help these people keep their homes warm. The next steps are the refinement of the pen portraits into a tool to educate staff at a practice, organisational and strategic level.
You can read more about the project here http://kwillt.org/
