Projects
The Care Life Cycle
Project contributors: Falkingham J, Evandrou M, Bijak J, Vlachantoni A, Hilton J, Bullock S, Brailsford S,
This Project is part of the following research programme/s:
Overview
This research programme brought together teams of researchers from social sciences, management science and complexity science to develop a suite of models to represent the socio-economic and demographic processes and organisations implicated in the UK's health and social care provision. Integral to the project was working with our partners in the public sector and communicating the results of these models to policymakers allowing them to effectively plan for the future.
Care Life Cycle
Society's health and social care needs are determined by a complex set of interacting and interrelated factors, which together may be thought of as the Care Life Cycle (CLC).
All factors are interrelatedThe Care Life Cycle
An individual's need for care is influenced both by their own characteristics (eg age, gender, health, education, occupation) but also by their family circumstances and wider social networks. These in turn are influenced by their own and their (adult) children's resources(employment, wages, pensions) and patterns of mobility. Migration also influences the supply of the health and social workforce, which is also affected by patterns of education and training as well as relative wages in the labour market. Thus the Care Life Cycle operates at both the individual and society level.
Our research programme collected data on the factors affecting the supply and demand of social and health care services, paying particular attention to the interactions between the Care Life Cycle components. We generated a suite of Care Life Cycle models, engaged with stakeholders and planners both throughout the development process, and gained an understanding of the role these models can play in influencing relevant policy.
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Publications & Activities
A hybrid simulation approach for planning health and social care services
Journal of Simulation (2022).
Authors: Penny K, Bayer S, Brailsford S,
Evandrou M, Falkingham J, Robards J, Vlachantoni A, (2017) Chapter 22 - The Prevalence of Informal Care and its Association with Health: Longitudinal Research Using Census Data for England and Wales in A Handbook of Census Resources, Methods and Applications: Unlocking the UK 2011 Census
Routledge
Trajectories of informal care and health
SSM - Population Health (2016). (2) 495-501
Authors: Vlachantoni A, Robards J, Falkingham J, Evandrou M,
The prevalence of informal care and its association with health: longitudinal research using census data for England and Wales
2015 Census Applications Conference (2015). (University of Manchester)
Authors: Falkingham J, Evandrou M, Robards J, Vlachantoni A,
Informal caring in England and Wales - stability and transition between 2001 and 2011.
Advances in Life Course Research (2015). 24 21-33
Authors: Robards J, Vlachantoni A, Evandrou M, Falkingham J,
Care Life Cycle: Towards Modelling the Supply and Demand of Health and Social Care in the UK
ARCHA Seminar (2013). (Aston University, Birmingham)
Authors: Bijak J,
Disablement in later life: moving beyond health determinants?
University of Southampton (2012). Series Number: 1.
Authors: Shaw R, Vlachantoni A, Evandrou M, Falkingham J,
Linked Lives: The Utility of an Agent-Based Approach to Modelling Partnership and Household Formation in the Context of Social Care
Winter Simulation Conference (2012). (Berlin)
Authors: Noble J, Silverman E, Bijak J, Rossiter S, Evandrou M, Bullock S, Vlachantoni A, Falkingham J,
Viana J, Rossiter S, Channon A, Brailsford S, Lotery A, (2012) Proceedings of the 2012 Winter Simulation Conference
IEEE
Noble J, Silverman E, Bijak J, Rossiter S, Evandrou M, Bullock S, Vlachantoni A, Falkingham J, (2012) Proceedings of the 2012 Winter Simulation Conference
IEEE, 991-1002.
Brailsford S, Evandrou M, Luff R, Shaw R, Viana J, Vlachantoni A, Willis R, (2012) Proceedings of the 2012 winter Simulation Conference
INFORMS
Complex Systems Modelling for Supply and Demand in Health and Social Care
Winter Simulation Conference (2011). (Phoenix, AZ)
Authors: Brailsford S, Silverman E, Rossiter S, Bijak J, Shaw R, Viana J, Noble J, Efstathiou S, Vlachantoni A,
