... and the first NIHR funded paper is out :-) Merged protocol of our two rapid reviews - trebuchet.public.springernature.app/get_content/f7… @OU_HWSC @OU_WELS School of LHCS, The Open University OpenLearn @OU_healthsci OUHealthWellbeingPRA Centre for the Study of Global Development The Open University @CareumCH Carers Trust Buckinghamshire Health & Social Care Academy @TheCarersCentre Scottish Care

And here's the response to our paper by the Clare Inclusive Research Group. Well worth a read.👊onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bl…

Would you like to participate in our research about growing older with a learning disability and planning ahead? You can contact @beckyanderson_1 by DM, by email to: [email protected] or you can call or text on 07942 265 707

We're looking for a Research Associate to join our fab team and work on two projects: GrowingOlderPlanningAhead and Witness to Harm. manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy/r…

We are looking for brothers and sisters of learning disabled people to participate in our research about growing older with a learning disability and planning ahead. Interested? Please DM @beckyanderson_1 or email: [email protected] or call or text on 07942 265 707

Delighted our ethnography paper is now open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… All power to the GrowingOlderPlanningAhead project.

Exploring how people with learning disabilities can be involved in data analysis. Fab (team) work on our National Institute for Health and Care Research funded GrowingOlderPlanningAhead project.

In other news, it’s the first GrowingOlderPlanningAhead stakeholder event in Manchester on Nov 16. A lot of work to pack in beginning to co-design recommendations/discuss thorny issues. [@magmikulak design]

Last minute tweaks to our first GrowingOlderPlanningAhead event in Manchester today to start co-producing recommendations about improving support as people with learning disabilities grow older. 1.

First time the team will be meeting in person nearly two years into the project. So exciting! 2.

We are packing in the work for attendees (sorry!) and separate resources will be shared with self-advocacy groups for further feedback. 3.

Core questions generated by early research findings and fab films will be shared later. Here’s to a cracking event. [End]

Goodness me we packed in the work at the GrowingOlderPlanningAhead event. So much feedback, ideas and commitment. Still standing at the end.

Some bits from the event. First one of the short GrowingOlderPlanningAhead films. vimeo.com/771511637 1.

The We are GM GOLD team enjoying the finish a bit too much.

Angeli from OxFSN introducing the event, @magmikulak and Dawn, @beckyanderson_1 and Richard Keagan Bull introducing the project films and Prof Wallace introducing the project.

Please read this thread and contact Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met if you'd like to take part #selfadvocacy #learningdisability

With self advocates Cald SelfAdvocacy talking about the importance of planning ahead as part of the GrowingOlderPlanningAhead Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met research - 'we need this to be an ordinary conversation, nobody should feel embarrassed and we should be able to talk about death and dying in an open way'

Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met GrowingOlderPlanningAhead We will come back with all feedback from the sessions ASAP - have to say it's started a really good conversation with self advocates and one that they want to prioritise locally - thank you for the great resources, it really helped.