Namara Arthur Araali
HENU - Health Nest Uganda and Medical Research Council/London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine at the Uganda Virus Research Institute
Namara Arthur Araali
Namara Arthur Araali is a Ugandan gerontologist and public health scientist with a Master’s Degree in Gerontology from the University of Southampton, UK. He is a member of the Uganda National Council for Older Persons under the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, where he chairs the Research and Documentation Committee. Arthur works with the Medical Research Council/London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine at the Uganda Virus Research Institute, focusing on non-communicable diseases. He is the founder of Health Nest Uganda (HENU), an NGO affiliated with HelpAge International, dedicated to advancing the rights and wellbeing of older persons. He pioneered the introduction of the Community Life Competence Approach in Uganda, empowering older adults to recognize their strengths and actively engage in improving their own lives. Arthur co-authored Uganda’s Social Gerontology Training Manual and has played a key role in shaping national policy on ageing. He also established the WISDOM Centre, an intergenerational hub promoting mutual learning between youth and elders. His work has earned him several accolades, including the Jack Watters Memorial Award and academic honors from the University of Southampton.
FURTHER INFORMATION
| Countries | African Union; |
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| Topics | Access to care; Accountability; Ageing in place; Artificial Intelligence; Attitudes and Expectations about Long-Term Care; Autonomy; Care economy; Care Homes; Care in rural and other non-urban settings; Care inequalities; Care innovations; Care integration/ coordination; Care needs poverty and deprivation; Care outcomes; Care trajectories; Cash benefits; Climate Change and LTC; Co-production in LTC; Community-based LTC; Continence Care in LTC; Costs of LTC; COVID-19 and other infectious diseases and LTC; Culturally appropriate LTC; Day Care; Deinstitutionalisation; Dementia care and support; Economics of LTC; Ecosystems of care; Eligibility for public LTC; Employment education and family carers; End-of-life care and LTC; Ethics and care; Evaluation of LTC systems and services; Exercise and healthy ageing; Financing LTC; Governance and LTC systems organisation; Healthcare access in LTC; Housing Adaptations; Housing and care; Implementation; Infection prevention; Information and data systems in LTC; Information needs; Intergenerational approaches; International Day of Care and Support; Living arrangements; Loneliness among older people; Long term care subsidies; LTC and people with learning disabilities; LTC and people with mental health conditions; LTC and younger people; LTC insurance; LTC Policy; LTC Reforms; LTC systems in LMIC countries; LTC utitilisation; LTC Workforce; New models of care; Outcome measurement in LTC; Outcomes for unpaid/informal carers; Pain assessment and management; Pain management in care homes; Parent carers; Pensions; Person-centered care; Prevention and rehabilitation and LTC; Primary Health Care; Psychotropic use in care homes; Quality of care; Quality regulation and accreditation for LTC services; Relationship between LTC use and hospital use; Research gaps and priorities in LTC; Residential LTC services; Rights and people’s voices in LTC systems; Risk in Long-Term Care; Shaping LTC markets and provider behaviour; Social connection; Social Innovation in LTC; Social Insurance; Social Protection; Stigma and discrimination; Survey measures; Technology and LTC; Universal design and LTC; Unmet needs; Unpaid / informal care; Workforce capability; Workforce pay and conditions; Younger carers; |
| Methods | Actuarial methods; Artificial Intelligence; Assessment tool development; Case studies; Causal inference in Long-Term Care; Co-production methods; Comparative policy analysis; Cost analysis; Creative research methods; Data science and LTC research; Document analysis; Ethnography; Expert consultations; Feasibility studies; Focus groups; Grounded Theory; Implementation science; Interviews; Knowledge-exchange; Literature reviews and synthesis; Longitudinal data analysis; Longitudinal qualitative studies; Mixed methods; Narrative evaluation methods; Observational studies; Participatory research methods; Pilot study; Policy analysis; Practice-based approaches; Projections; Psychometric testing; Qualitative studies; Quantitative data analysis; Quasi-experimental methods; Questionnaire; Research ethics; Scoping reviews; Service mapping; Social media text analysis; Social network analysis; Surveys; Systematic Review; Thematic analysis; Theory and frameworks; Theory of Change; Time series analysis; Training materials; Translation and cultural adaptation of instruments; Usability study; |
| Role | Research; |
| Interest Groups | Ageing and Place; Climate Change and LTC; Community-based approaches to dementia care; Continence Care in Long-Term Care; Economics of Long-Term Care; Integrated Long-Term Care; Long-Term Care Policy; Pain in Care Homes; policy; Quality improvement in Long-Term Care; Strengthening Responses to Dementia; Technology and Long-Term Care; Unmet need inequalities and care poverty (UNICAP); |
| https://ug.linkedin.com/in/namara-arthur-araali-aaa53133 | |
| Research interests | Long-term care, non-communicable diseases, environment, inter-generational approaches to ageing |
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