The James Lind Alliance (JLA) is a non-profit making initiative bringing patients, carers and clinicians together in JLA Priority Setting Partnerships (PSPs). JLA PSPs identify and prioritise unanswered questions that they agree are the most important, so that researchers and funders are aware of the issues that matter most to the people who need to use the research in their everyday lives.
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ACHA was awarded match funding from the Vivensa to establish its first PhD programme, to support ACHA’s academic ambitions to build research capacity in Healthy Ageing.
“New approaches to FrAilty: Inclusivity and REsilience in Ageing Research” (FAIRER-DTP) began in January 2025.
FAIRER will focus, like ACHA, on applied health research, responding to the needs of our local population and health and care system and seeking implementable solutions. ACHA academics will oversee the programme via a Steering Group. The ACHA group and wider collaborators have designed PhD projects based on the three overarching areas of ACHA:
- frailty prevention and living well with long term conditions and multimorbidity
- rehabilitation
- cognition
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Introducing NEL-CIRCLE
To address this challenge, ACHA has launched NEL-CIRCLE (North East London Care Innovation & Research Collaborative for Learning Equity). It brings together:
· Residents and families
· Care home staff
· Researchers and healthcare professionals
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Older people coming to the emergency department often face long waits in a noisy, crowded and unfamiliar environment, which can be especially difficult if they develop delirium – a sudden, temporary state of confusion that affects thinking, attention and awareness of surroundings. Delirium affects around a third of older patients in emergency departments and is linked to higher risks of falls, moving into a care home and even death. This project aims to understand how delirium affects older people in emergency departments and how it contributes to pressures on staff, beds and patient flow. By collecting detailed data on patients’ experiences and outcomes, the ADEPT study will lay the groundwork for a larger research programme to improve delirium care, enhance safety and quality of life, and reduce strain on emergency services.
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GRACE (Goal diRected, Accessible, & Evidence-based Care for Families affected by dementia) is a new way to support family carers and people living with dementia. It focuses on practical changes they can make and where to get extra help. GRACE was previously known as NIDUS (New Interventions for Independence in Dementia Studies).
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