All Outputs (4)

Becoming frail: A more than human exploration (2021)
Journal Article
Cluley, V., Fox, N., & Radnor, Z. (2021). Becoming frail: A more than human exploration. Health, https://doi.org/10.1177/13634593211038460

‘Frailty’ is increasingly used as a clinical term to refer and respond to a particular bodily presentation, with numerous scores and measures to support its clinical determination. While these tools are typically quantitative in nature and based prim... Read More about Becoming frail: A more than human exploration.

Talking about frailty: The relationship between precarity and the fourth age in older peoples' constructions of frailty (2021)
Journal Article
Cluley, V., Martin, G., Radnor, Z., & Banerjee, J. (2021). Talking about frailty: The relationship between precarity and the fourth age in older peoples' constructions of frailty. Journal of Aging Studies, 58, Article 100951. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2021.100951

The clinical identification of frailty is increasingly thought to be important in countries with ageing populations. Understanding how older people labelled as frail make sense of this categorisation is therefore important. A number of recent studies... Read More about Talking about frailty: The relationship between precarity and the fourth age in older peoples' constructions of frailty.

“Considered Language” in Public Service: Changing Discourses and Their Implementation in Practice (2021)
Book Chapter
Cluley, V., & Radnor, Z. (2021). “Considered Language” in Public Service: Changing Discourses and Their Implementation in Practice. In Public Service: Changing Discourses and Their Implementation in Practice (259-276). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29980-4_82

Buzzwords and acronyms are ubiquitous throughout public service provision worldwide. Additionally, such terms are subject to frequent change, and public servants are expected to use the most up-to-date language in their work in order to reflect curre... Read More about “Considered Language” in Public Service: Changing Discourses and Their Implementation in Practice.

Using Situated Interviews to Engage Frail Older People in the Co-production of Improved Emergency Healthcare (2021)
Journal Article
Cluley, V., Gale, N., & Radnor, Z. (2021). Using Situated Interviews to Engage Frail Older People in the Co-production of Improved Emergency Healthcare. International Journal of Public Administration, 44(9), 767-777. https://doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2021.1912088

Including frail older people in the development and improvement of healthcare is a topical issue and co-production represents a common approach. How to practice co-production effectively, however, remains challenging, particularly when including vuln... Read More about Using Situated Interviews to Engage Frail Older People in the Co-production of Improved Emergency Healthcare.