Publications by authors named "Chris Dayson"
Background: Approximately 5.7 million people in the UK are providing informal care. Carers across all ethnic groups can experience negative impacts on their physical and mental health but some minority ethnic groups face greater challenges.
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- Evidence shows that spending time in nature can improve health and wellbeing, with nature-based social prescribing (NBSP) linking individuals to community activities in natural settings for mental and physical health benefits.
- The study involved a workshop with health and environmental experts from the UK and Germany, who explored the development and execution of NBSP in different healthcare systems.
- Five key themes emerged for successful NBSP implementation, including capacity building, accessibility, collaboration, standardized practices, and sustainability, along with a discussion of strengths and challenges for each theme.
Green spaces and the impact on cognitive frailty: a scoping review.
Front Public Health
January 2024
Some literature indicates that contact with green spaces can benefit health and wellbeing, but it is unclear whether this is protective of cognitive health in older people. Using Arskey and O'Malley's framework the aim was to investigate ageing, cognitive frailty and the effects of green access including any causality. The evidence was somewhat inconsistent but suggestive for a beneficial role of green space exposure on cognitive functions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF. There is interest in the role community organisations can play to support healthy ageing and the integration of health and social care. This study explored the contribution community organisations can make to this goal through the Leeds (UK) Neighbourhood Networks (LNNs), a novel example of community-based support.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: (1) To explore the relationship between loneliness and mental health in older people accessing interventions delivered through the voluntary sector. (2) To understand how these interventions can take account of mental health, discussing the relative strengths of a number of different one-to-one and group-based interventions.
Methods: Qualitative case study of Age Better in Sheffield (ABiS), an initiative to address loneliness and isolation among older people (aged above 50).