Including older people in health and social care research: best practice recommendations based on the INCLUDE framework.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Older people are often explicitly or implicitly excluded from research, in particular clinical trials. This means that study findings may not be applicable to them, or that older people may not be offered treatments due to an absence of evidence.

Aims

The aim of this work was to develop recommendations to guide all research relevant to older people.

Methods

A diverse stakeholder group identified barriers and solutions to including older people in research. In parallel, a rapid literature review of published papers was undertaken to identify existing papers on the inclusion of older people in research. The findings were synthesised and mapped onto a socio-ecological model. From the synthesis we identified themes that were developed into initial recommendatio

SUBMITTER: Goodwin VA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10234283 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature