Centre for Collaborative Gerontology

CO-DIRECTORS

Professor David Stanley and Dr Glenda Cook

The Centre for Collaborative Gerontology (CCG) is a virtual community which undertakes research and practice development in partnership with older people, older people's organisations and with organisations which provide services for older people.  CCG was founded in 1999 as the Centre for Care of Older People, with support from Age Concern, and relaunched under its present name in 2006.  CCG works in a multi-professional, interdisciplinary context.  The Centre's activities are grounded in an ethical approach which respects and values older people.

My Home Life

My Home Life is a UK initiative that aims to improve the quality of life of those who are living, dying, visiting and working in care homes for older people. My Home Life celebrates best practice within care homes and promotes care homes as a positive option for older people.

Across the UK networks are being established to examine eight determinants of quality of life, namely: transition to a care home, maintaining identity, community life, shared decision-making, health and health care services, end-of-life care, a workforce fit-for-purpose and a positive culture. The Centre for Collaborative Gerontology is co-coordinating the North East network around the theme of transitions.

For more information about the My Home Life programme visit http://www.myhomelife.org.uk/.

For further information about the North East network contact: 

Dr Glenda Cook
My Home Life NorthEast network co-ordinator
Room H009, Coach Lane Campus East, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE7 7XA
Tel: 0191 2156117
e-mail: glenda.cook@unn.ac.uk