COPE-Co-Create
Summary
Research Methods: Facilitated half-day co-production workshops involving focus groups, dramatic storytelling (COPE Drama), and interactive knowledge mobilization sessions.
Focus Areas: Addressing how older adults cope with extreme heat, and exploring integrated, cross-sectoral support strategies in health care, housing, and senior services.
- Knowledge Mobilization: Initial project findings (COPE-Daily and COPE Engage), lived experience narratives, Photovoice display, and engagement booths from research labs.
- Outcome: A comprehensive action plan for international dissemination, to be localized through community forums in the UK, Sweden, Israel, and Hong Kong.
This component of the COPE study involves the facilitation of a half-day long co-production workshop in British Columbia, Canada. The COPE researchers aim to co-create an action plan supported by the collective knowledge and experience of various members. These include advice of older adults with lived experience of extreme heat, key personnel in the health care system, housing providers, and staff belonging to various senior services. Specifically, persons serving on the COPE older adult advisory board, community partners, as well as participants from previous and other current research projects will be invited to engage in extensive discussions hosted at COPE Co-Create.
The co-production workshop, will have the following four components:
- We will share initial findings from our project (COPE-Daily and COPE Engage).
- We will host focus group sessions on topics such as supports needed to help older adults cope with extreme heat and emergency situations, how actions between sectors mandated to support older adults can be better integrated, and solutions and strategies for combined efforts between community-based organizations and public services.
- We will perform a dramatic production of older adults lived experiences of heat (i.e., COPE Drama).
- We will further host an interactive session that invites participants to visit booths from research labs and stations engaging in knowledge mobilization initiatives such as disseminating study findings, presenting a Photovoice display.
The main outcome of the COPE Co-Create workshop is to draft a comprehensive and robust action plan that can be disseminated to the international COPE team. Subsequently, community forums will be held in the UK, Sweden, Israel, and Hong Kong to create retrofitted versions of the action plan based on feedback from local partners representing relevant sectors within those geographic areas.