NEW REPORT AVAILABLE  'ADVOCACY WITH OLDER PEOPLE IN WALES' is a report on the proceedings of an expert seminar hosted by The Older Peoples Advocacy Alliance (OPAAL) UK and OPAN on 15th May 2008 at Swansea University.

 

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Welcome to the Older People & Ageing Research & Development Network (OPAN Cymru).

 

The aims of OPAN Cymru are to improve the lives of older people through the integration of research, policy and practice in Wales.

 

The multi-disciplinary research network links research to practice and policy-making through shared research initiatives, workshops, seminars, conferences and the website.

 

OPAN Cymru facilitates collaborative research projects in order to raise the profile of research into ageing. It will take the lead in developing research and can contribute expertise to other projects that require an older people or ageing dimension.

OPAN Cymru is one of nine thematic research networks, and four research infrastructure groups, funded by the Wales Office of Research and Development (WORD). The nine networks contribute to a formidable research community in the principality and are coordinated by the Clinical Research Collaboration Cymru (CRCC) OPAN Cymru is a multidisciplinary, multi-sectoral collaborative project including academics from Swansea; Bangor and Cardiff Universities together with practitioners and policy makers with a breadth of experience across the fields of health, social care, medicine and nursing.

OPAN Objectives