Overview of the research
The Academic Unit of Elderly Care and Rehabilitation continues to grow. The Unit is led by Professor Anne Forster who leads the stroke programme, and Professor John Young who leads the elderly care research programme.
Formerly an NHS research department, the Unit is now part of the University of Leedsand is administratively located within the Leeds Institute of Health Sciences. The department is physically located in the Bradford Institute for Health Research building on the Bradford Royal Infirmary site.
The Unit has an established record of addressing key, clinically relevant questions in elderly care and stroke. A programme of multidisciplinary health services research has been developed, facilitated by a strong and supportive network of local and national colleague researchers, NHS clinical staff, patients and their families. The research has used a mixed-methods approach, incorporating qualitative, quantitative and health economic evaluations.
Staff working in the Unit comprise of two Clinical Senior Lecturers in Elderly Care Medicine, a Reader in Social Gerontology, a Lecturer in Stroke Care and over 25 contracted research staff.
The research Team
Professor Anne Forster
Professor of Stroke Rehabilitation; Head of Academic Unit, University of Leeds; NIHR Senior Investigator; NIHR Academic Training Advocate
Anne Forster is a physiotherapist with a long-standing interest in stroke and has undertaken a number of randomised trials and qualitative studies examining the effect of interventions to improve the longer-term outcome for patients and carers.
Professor Anne Forster
Professor of Stroke Rehabilitation; Head of Academic Unit, University of Leeds; NIHR Senior Investigator; NIHR Academic Training Advocate
Anne Forster is a physiotherapist with a long-standing interest in stroke and has undertaken a number of randomised trials and qualitative studies examining the effect of interventions to improve the longer-term outcome for patients and carers.
Professor Anne Forster
Professor of Stroke Rehabilitation; Head of Academic Unit, University of Leeds; NIHR Senior Investigator; NIHR Academic Training Advocate
Anne Forster is a physiotherapist with a long-standing interest in stroke and has undertaken a number of randomised trials and qualitative studies examining the effect of interventions to improve the longer-term outcome for patients and carers.
Professor Anne Forster
Professor of Stroke Rehabilitation; Head of Academic Unit, University of Leeds; NIHR Senior Investigator; NIHR Academic Training Advocate
Anne Forster is a physiotherapist with a long-standing interest in stroke and has undertaken a number of randomised trials and qualitative studies examining the effect of interventions to improve the longer-term outcome for patients and carers.
Professor Anne Forster
Professor of Stroke Rehabilitation; Head of Academic Unit, University of Leeds; NIHR Senior Investigator; NIHR Academic Training Advocate
Anne Forster is a physiotherapist with a long-standing interest in stroke and has undertaken a number of randomised trials and qualitative studies examining the effect of interventions to improve the longer-term outcome for patients and carers.
Professor Anne Forster
Professor of Stroke Rehabilitation; Head of Academic Unit, University of Leeds; NIHR Senior Investigator; NIHR Academic Training Advocate
Anne Forster is a physiotherapist with a long-standing interest in stroke and has undertaken a number of randomised trials and qualitative studies examining the effect of interventions to improve the longer-term outcome for patients and carers.
Our Research
HISTORICAL RESEARCH
Improving patient and carer centred outcomes in longer-term stroke care
An investigation of the Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP) system of care to prevent delirium.
Investigation of screening tools to identify people with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (a-MCI)
The Clinical Information and Management System for Stroke (CIMSS)
Process evaluation embedded within a randomised trial of caregiver training after stroke
IMPACT OF RESEARCH
The Unit has strong focus on improving health care for local, national and international services through conducting high quality research.
For details of research impacts please view the project profiles in the Historical research section