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(2021-2025, MRC iCASE-funded).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtney Nabb<\/strong>: Investigating the incidence of falls and relationship to motor ability in autistic adults (2022-2028).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Danielle Harris<\/strong>: Addressing the effects of COVID-19 pandemic lockdown deconditioning: Developing an intervention to increase physical activity for older adults from socioeconomically deprived groups (2022-2025, Dunhill Medical Trust, NIHR ARC-GM, NIHR Older People and Frailty\/Healthy Ageing PRU).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Helena Bilsborough<\/strong>: Exploring factors influencing volunteer uptake in peer-volunteering active ageing interventions within Bangladeshi and Chinese communities (2021-2024, ARC-GM).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Katharine Fisher<\/strong>: Charles Bonnet syndrome and falls (2020-2025, Thomas Pocklington Trust-funded).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Katherine Blumer<\/strong>: The phenomenology of improvisation in community music settings with people living with dementia (2023-2029).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lauren Martin<\/strong>: Supporting older care home residents to maintain a sense of purpose in life (2023-2029).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lily Mott<\/strong>: Developing an intervention to reduce and interrupt sedentary behaviour in older employees who work from home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lishan Huang<\/strong>: Developing a Chinese version of the lifestyle integrated functional exercise programme (C-LiFE) among Chinese older adults in the UK (2022-2026).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mohammad Zougar<\/strong>: Feasibility study of MIRA Exergames for male older adults residing in care homes in Saudi Arabia (2019-2024, funded by Saudi Ministry of Education).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rita Newton<\/strong>: Everyday use of the garden at home by people living with dementia: a multi-site ethnographic study (2019-2026, Economic and Social Research Council).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nourah Basalam<\/strong>: Cultural acceptability of digital pain self-management and reporting tools for managing chronic pain among people with a Saudi Arabian background (2024-2027, Saudi Ministry of Health).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sally Hoodless<\/strong>: Acceptability of teleconferencing-assisted implementation of FaME as an intervention for community-dwelling older men (AT-AIM (FaME) Study) (2022-2025, Dunhill Medical Trust, NIHR ARC-GM, NIHR Older People and Frailty\/Healthy Ageing PRU).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Schenelle Dlima<\/strong>: Frailty progression and maintaining independence to age in place: can routine data help? (2022-2025, Dunhill Medical Trust, NIHR ARC-GM, NIHR Older People and Frailty\/Healthy Ageing PRU).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shuruq Alotibi:<\/strong> Co-designing and testing an online digital exercise programme with older people living in Saudi Arabia (2023-2027, funded by Saudi Ministry of Education).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syeda Taqya Amna Arslan:<\/strong> Examining machine learning in a digital physical activity intervention to predict and prevent falls in older adults: a mixed methods feasibility study (2021-2025, MRC iCASE-funded).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tawanda Mutandiri<\/strong>: How do you encourage older adults living in care homes to walk again? 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