{"id":1017,"date":"2013-05-16T10:52:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T09:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2013-05-16T10:52:45","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T09:52:45","slug":"cobalt-challenging-obstacles-and-barriers-to-assistive-living-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/2013\/05\/16\/cobalt-challenging-obstacles-and-barriers-to-assistive-living-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"COBALT: Challenging Obstacles and Barriers to Assistive Living Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"width: 1px;height: 1px;overflow: hidden\">COBALT is a collaborative research<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"width: 1px;height: 1px;overflow: hidden\">project engaging with older adults,<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"width: 1px;height: 1px;overflow: hidden\">health and social care professionals,<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"width: 1px;height: 1px;overflow: hidden\">commissioners and industry to explore<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"width: 1px;height: 1px;overflow: hidden\">and provide solutions to the social and<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"width: 1px;height: 1px;overflow: hidden\">behavioural barriers to ALT adoption<\/div>\n<p>COBALT (Challenging Obstacles and Barriers to Assistive Living Technology) is a collaborative research project between Age UK and the Universities of Sheffield, St Andrews and Reading to explore and provide solutions to the social and behavioural barriers to adoption of ALT by older adults.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Free COBALT workshops:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are holding a series of free workshops to showcase our COBALT Tools for Engagement and research findings that will appeal to policy makers, health and social care professionals, commissioners, the ALT industry, older adults and academics.<\/p>\n<p>Early booking recommended as places are limited:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>23rd May 2013 \u2013 St Mary\u2019s Church &amp; Community<\/strong><strong><strong> <\/strong>Centre, Sheffield<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>13th June 2013 \u2013 Great Western Museum of Steam<\/strong><strong><strong>, <\/strong>Swindon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>20th June 2013 \u2013 Edinburgh Capital Best Western<\/strong><strong><strong> <\/strong>Hotel, Edinburgh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>tbc July 2013 \u2013 Venue tbc, Cambridge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>To book<\/strong> your place contact: Dr. Maggie Ellis ,mpe2@st-andrews.ac.uk, 01334 462017<\/p>\n<p>For further information :\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/files\/\/www\/vhosts\/bathblogs\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/621\/files\/2013\/05\/flyer-FINAL.pdf\">flyer - FINAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COBALT is a collaborative research project engaging with older adults, health and social care professionals, commissioners and industry to explore and provide solutions to the social and behavioural barriers to ALT adoption COBALT (Challenging Obstacles and Barriers to Assistive Living...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brd"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}