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Work Package 1 - User Engagement

Expert Advisory Panel - May 2010

An Expert Advisory Panel meeting was held

in May. This meeting included some key

collaborators and occupational health

experts. The meeting involved an update and

discussion for each of the four work

packages. The meeting was a success, with

valuable input collected from all panel

members which will help inform the

research process.

Collaborative Research Project (CRP)

Meeting - June 2010

Our annual CRP meeting was held in June.

The meeting involved all of our

collaborators including our Canadian

collaborators and winners from the RoyalSociety of Arts, Design Directions

competition: Rachael Ball Risk and Jennifer

Rice. All work packages delivered updates

on progress and successes.

Future user engagement panels will be

arranged for 2011.

Work Package 2

The Journey to Work

A questionnaire has been distributed to

investigate the extent to which the journey

to work may prove a barrier to older

workers. With much appreciated co-

operation from members of Working Lates

expert and user panels, the online version ofthe questionnaire was distributed, covering a

Strategies to enhance productive and healthy environments for the older

workforce

Research Project Update 3

Working Late is a four year collaborative research project addressing practice and policy

issues associated with later life working. The project is funded by the New Dynamics of

Ageing (NDA) Programme, which is the largest and most ambitious research programme on

ageing ever mounted in the UK. Working Late aims to develop interventions and design

solutions to promote health and quality of working life.

This newsletter includes a summary of project developments over the past six months.

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wide range of industry types and locations.

Due to the impressive response the survey

has now been closed to the public sector but

we are still interested in private sector

responses.

The results from the survey are being

analysed, which will enable us to draw

conclusions about which groups are most

likely to suffer difficulties. So far, 25

percent of 1043 respondents from the public

sector have said that they have difficulties

with their journey to work. Nineteen

percent of respondents have said that they

have considered retiring or changing jobs as

a result of issues with the journey.

However, we still need to investigate the

factors affecting journey difficulties and

whether these differ among different groups.

Upcoming interviews and focus groups will

help to gather more information and their

comments, stories and recommendations

will feed into a resource to be developed

later in the project.

Work Package 3.1

Occupational health provision in the

workplace

Work Package 3.1 has now been

successfully completed and targets set in the

proposal have been met. Research papers

are currently being written on both the

qualitative (interviews) and quantitative

(survey) data collected.

Work Package 3.2

Physical activity interventions

The research team have made significant

progress with Work Package 3.2. The team

have been collecting data since July and so

far 796 participants have been recruited to

the study.

In collaboration with RockKitchenHarris, a

new webpage has been developed and is

now live.

www.walkingworkswonders.com will be

used to collect participant step counts and

has also been designed as an interactive tool

for participants to help maintain interest and

motivation.

Work Package 4

Ageing productively through design

A questionnaire survey is being conducted

which focuses on the workplace and the

ways in which design affects peoples work

ability and experiences around working later

into life. The questionnaire has been piloted

and finalised and is being distributed to arange of companies.

To date, 20 companies have been contacted

regarding the survey. Four companies are

fully committed wherein the survey is now

live. We are negotiating involvement with

a further three companies and in early

discussions with another three. Over the

next months, we will continue the process of

negotiating agreements with other

organisations. Interviews with company

representatives will also commence in order

to inform the questionnaire data and

determine task areas for the next phases of

the research. A logo has also been designed

for branding the OWL (Organiser for

Working Late) resource.

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