1. Contributions of OPRG to TACT3
Eleanor van den Heuvel
Principal Investigator

2. At Proposal stage
Please let me know if you have any suggestions that could help us make our results widely known.
Our ideas for getting our research into the public eye are:
6 monthly press releases
Workshops for interested parties at 6, 18 and 30 months into the project
End of project conferences aimed at nurses, academics, healthcare policy makers and industry
Regular newsletters for participants and partners of the project to update them on progress.
Please could you give me some feedback on these ideas? Please let me know if you have any suggestions that could help us make our results widely known.

3. Advisory committee membership

4. Support for Research into ageing
KT-EQUAL Workshop September 17th 2009
Making the most of the potential of Assistive Technology

5. Input to research methodology
Work Package 2
Challenging environmental Barriers to continence

6. Meeting NDA OPRG
Held meeting with members of NDA Older People’s Reference group – March 2009
Presented work to date – possible research tools for use by those involved in research.

7. Research Tools Possible research tools included
Diary to record times when using toilets away from home and to record ‘state’ of public toilets
Mapping to identify where in areas toilets were located.
Tools rejected by potential users as being impractical

8. Research participants
Original proposal aimed at recruiting older users to project (aged 50+)
OPRG suggested extending age range to include transgenerational need for public toilet facilities.
Developed ‘lifecourse’ methodology based around epidemiological studies.

9. ‘Life course’ methodology
Project now aimed to include 101 people aged (0 = new born child)
Understand toileting needs for different ages
Map design needs
Create personas to represent group needs

10. NDA OPRG next encounter
Currently completing 2nd phase of research with toilet providers
Return to consultation with OPRG (May 2011)
Identify further areas for inclusion (case studies ie Lewisham)

11. Thank You! ?