Identifying models of care to improve outcomes for older people with urgent care needs: a mixed methods approach to develop a system dynamics model

Simon Conroy ^1,^2,^*, Sally Brailsford ³, Christopher Burton ⁴, Tracey England ⁵, Jagruti Lalseta ⁶, Graham Martin ⁷, Suzanne Mason ⁸, Laia Maynou-Pujolras ⁹, Kay Phelps ¹⁰, Louise Preston ¹¹, Emma Regen ¹², Peter Riley ¹³, Andrew Street ¹⁴, James van Oppen ¹⁵

¹ Geriatrician, George Davies Centre, University of Leicester, Leichester, UK
² MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, UCL, Leichester, UK
³ Southampton Business School, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
⁴ Academic Unit of Medical Education, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
⁵ Health Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
⁶ Leicester Older Peoples’ Research Forum, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
⁷ Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
⁸ School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
⁹ Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics, London, UK
¹⁰ Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
¹¹ School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
¹² Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
¹³ Leicester older peoples’ research forum, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
¹⁴ Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics, London, UK
¹⁵ Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
^* Corresponding author Email: simon.conroy@ucl.ac.uk

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