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Iriss has published a ten year strategy

After a period of consultation, strategising and development, Iriss has released a document outlining the organisations strategy from 2025 to 2035.  Grounded in the current conditions of the sector, the strategy outlines the organisations priorities, goals and ambitions for the next ten…
Published 20 Jan 2025 in News

Creative consultations

I work for LGBT Health and Wellbeing, supporting services working with older people to become more inclusive of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. This is a valuable opportunity to…
Published 2 Mar 2015 in Features

Taking the time to tinker

I come from a family of tinkerers. My granddad was always in his shed hacking away at something or in the garage mucking about with his Morris Minor. He was a postman, not a carpenter or an engineer…
Published 23 Feb 2015 in Features

Encouraging storytelling part 3

Turning points This exercise comes with a health warning - it can unearth unwanted emotions. Participants need to be encouraged to look after themselves and only deal with parts of their lives that…
Published 17 Feb 2015 in Features
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Hospital to Home gets animated

Since July 2013, Iriss's Innovation and Improvement team has been leading a project to design a care pathway to support the transition from hospital to home for older people. The first stage of this…
Published 16 Feb 2015 in News

Ten 'rules' for being creative in producing research

Since the changing of the year seems to be the time for lists, top ten lists, etc., I decided to compile mine about being creative whist producing cutting‐edge research. Not for the faint‐hearted!…
Published 9 Feb 2015 in Features

Fit for the Future

Fit for the Future is a partnership project of Iriss and Scottish Care dedicated to inspiring better outcomes for older people by working with providers from the independent sector. The project…
Published 6 Feb 2015 in Features

Practitioner Research: Outcomes and Partnership (PROP2)

PROP2 has been developed by IRISS and CRFR at the University of Edinburgh, and builds on learning from the previous Practitioner Research: Older People (PROP) project.
Published 3 Feb 2015 in News

Listening… with more than our ears (Part 1)

What a year for Glasgow. Many of us felt the warmth and goodwill that animated the carnival atmosphere in the city during the Games, stretch beyond the referendum as a tangible urge to transcend the…
Published 26 Jan 2015 in Features
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Launch of 'Fit for the Future' resource

Fit for the Future is a joint Iriss and Scottish Care project that has been working to inspire better outcomes for older people in Scotland through working with providers from the independent sector…
Published 21 Jan 2015 in News

Blogging as creativity

So. Blogging has (almost) come of age. Twenty years ago, a software developer in California ushered in a new era of communication. Dave Winer published his first blog post on 7 October 1994. He…
Published 19 Jan 2015 in Features

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