These resources are based on research from the ‘Better Care Moves for Older People’ project, led by Dr Wenjing Zhang with the co-production group members:

Professor Ann-Marie Towers, Professor of Social Care, Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent.
Dr Eirini-Christina Saloniki, Senior Research Fellow in Health Economics, NIHR ARC North Thames & UCL Department of Applied Health Research.
Helen Salisbury, expert by lived experience.
Janet Richardson-Simmonds, expert by lived experience.
Julia Greig, Social Worker, Adult Social Care, East Sussex County Council.
Karin Webb, expert by lived experience.
Kate Wortham, expert by lived experience.
Philip Blurton, co-applicant of the project, Director of Safeguarding & Principal Social Worker, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. (Left the team in December 2021 due to job change).
Dr Robin Darton, Senior Research Fellow, Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent.
Sharon Leaver, Principal Social Worker (PSW), Adult Social Care, East Sussex County Council. (Joined the project team in 2022, succeeding Philip as the new PSW).
Dr Wenjing Zhang, Research Fellow, Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent.

If you’d like to know more about the project, please contact Dr Wenjing Zhang: w.j.zhang@kent.ac.uk

Acknowledgements

Thanks to all the participants who shared their experiences of care moves or supporting care moves, and thanks to our practitioner and research colleagues who contributed to the co-production work and provided invaluable advice (Jill Manthorpe, Paul Watts, Phillis Dzowa, Rebecca Sharp, Toby Connell). Our special thanks to Martin Salter, the video designer, and Royce Quizora, the animator, as well as expert and public contributors Berkeley Wilde, Helen Salisbury, Janet Richardson-Simmonds, John Gallimore, Julia Greig, Karin Webb, Kate Wortham, Lyn Gallimore and Michael Harrison for their assistance in recording anonymised interview quotes and reviewing the draft resources. We are also appreciative of the organisations and networks that supported us: East Sussex County Council, Kent County Council, Canterbury & District U3A, Kent Research Partnership, NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) Kent, Surrey and Sussex, NIHR ARC North Thames, The Diversity Trust.

This section summarises independent research funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research School for Social Care Research (NIHR SSCR). The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NIHR SSCR, the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care.