NARI adds international partners

Researchers from NARI recently visited Vietnam, India and Ghana, connecting with fellow researchers and health professionals from a number of entities to jointly pursue research goals, provide expert leadership, and promote excellence in the field of ageing. The partnerships coincide with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Decade of Healthy Ageing.

Across the three trips, NARI partnered with:

• The National Geriatric Hospital and Vietnam Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics — for collaboration in a number of areas starting with falls prevention in hospitals;

• Help Age International (Vietnam) — to integrate the International Self-Help Club (ISHC) model of home-based community care;

• The Health Strategy and Policy Institute – Ministry of Health Vietnam — to assist in the provision of an evidence base for Vietnam’s national health policy;

• The National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences in India, Queen Mary University of London, and Curtin University of Technology — to lead the Moving Pictures India study in partnership with; and

• Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana — to collaborate with its Bureau of Integrated Rural Development.