Virtual-EngAge

Our Aim

Virtual-EngAge examined the potential of everyday communication devices to support the maintenance, development and re-purposing of retirement association groups for social connectivity, critical information communication and advocacy in virtual environments.

PI & Team

Collaborators

Outputs

Virtual-EngAge Translation Report Series

• Digitally-supported communication for older people’s grassroots organisations
  
  
• Digitally-Supported Engagement: Pathways for Individuals and Groups
  
  
• Development Considerations and Design Criteria for a Digital Age
  
  

Virtual EngAge Policy Brief Series

• Digitalisation and Older People’s Grassroots Organisations Opportunities and Challenges. Virtual EngAge Policy Brief Series No. 1.
  
  
• Digitally-Supported Engagement: Securing inclusion in later life Virtual EngAge Policy Brief Series No. 2.
  
  
• Digital Technology Design and Development for Inclusive Ageing and Engaged Societies. Virtual EngAge Policy Brief Series No. 3.

Impacts

• Systematically review existing international knowledge on life-course and structural determinants of subjective positive health, in community contexts, for marginalised and vulnerable groups of the older adult population;
• Contextualise and chart social and primary care provision for OTOH individuals in Ireland, identifying potential individual- and structural-level risk factors for health inequalities and health inequities, informal practices for addressing such disparities, and key on-the-ground knowledge deficits;
• Capture the lived experiences, expectations and needs of a diverse group of OTOH individuals, unpacking the role of individuals’ life events and experiences, and societal and institutional practices and norms in the construction of positive health biographies;
• Facilitate and advance the voice of OTOH individuals to highlight ‘insider’ perspectives on meanings of home and successful strategies for securing positive health biographies, and adapting to challenges with respect to HC utilisation;
• Harnessing learning from OTOH individuals, develop policy recommendations and practice-relevant tools to inform the development and implementation of forthcoming older adult HC structures, helping to ensure their and applicability to the needs and preferences of OTOH individuals.