What is it about?
The Reset Programme was a collaborative project aimed at improving health and social care for older people after hospital stays. Using a participatory approach, it involved older adults and community partners to co-design support that builds resilience and strengthens community ties. The study highlights how physical, digital, and social environments affect resilience and offers new insights for shaping future care policies and practices.
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Why is it important?
Our research demonstrates how community-based, resilience-affirming support can transform health and social care for older adults. By focusing on the role of social, physical, and digital environments, this paper offers practical insights for creating inclusive, age-friendly communities and improving post-hospitalisation outcomes. It provides evidence-based recommendations for policy and practice, highlighting the power of co-production and relational, person-centred approaches to ageing in place.
Perspectives
It was a privilege to work with a dedicated team of social care professionals to demonstrate the power of co-production and collaborative working in health and social care. Reset contributes vital evidence for person-centred, community-based models of social support - approaches that truly enable resilience and ageing in place.
Sylwia Gorska
Queen Margaret University Edinburgh
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This page is a summary of: Reset: designing community-based, resilience-affirming support for older adults through participatory action research – an environmental perspective, Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, December 2025, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/qaoa-07-2025-0072.
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