Dr Euan Sadler PhD, MA, MSc, BSc (Hons),
Associate Clinical Professor of Older People and Frailty
Dr Euan Sadler is an Associate Clinical Professor of Older People and Frailty within Health Sciences at the University of Southampton.
Examining the implementation of effective integrated care approaches to improve health, wellbeing and social support of older people with frailty
Euan is a social scientist and physiotherapist. His position is a joint appointment between the University of Southampton and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust. In his role, Euan is leading and collaborating on a programme of research and innovation to improve the care and support of older people living with frailty, in the context of integrated care pathways and systems. Euan works alongside frailty teams in Southern Health supporting them to develop, evaluate and implement patient centred integrated care services for older people living with frailty in Hampshire, and in demonstration of impact. He contributes to the development of the clinical academic practice strategy and the clinical academic programme for nurses and allied health professionals.
After completing his physiotherapy training, Euan specialised in community rehabilitation for older people living with a range of long-term conditions, including frailty and those with multimorbidity. He completed his PhD in Gerontology at the Institute of Gerontology, King’s College London where he conducted a mixed methods PhD examining the role of spirituality in successful ageing.
Before moving to the University of Southampton he led and collaborated on a number of research programmes at King’s College London. This included an ethnographic process evaluation of a multi-site RCT study examining the impact of a stroke caregiver training intervention; programmes to develop and evaluate complex interventions to improve resilience and self-management support after stroke; and a multi-stakeholder engagement study to co-produce a data-driven intervention to improve long-term outcomes for stroke survivors with multimorbidity. More recently, as senior research fellow in the Centre for Implementation Science at King’s he led on several studies: 1) A Cochrane review of case management for integrated care of older people with frailty in community settings (protocol published to date); 2) A qualitative study to investigate service user, carer and provider perspectives on integrated care and integrated care pathways for older people with frailty in Lambeth and Southwark, south London; and 3) qualitative evidence syntheses examining a) the meanings, experiences and impacts of frailty from the perspectives of older people, and b) service user, carer and provider perspectives on integrated care for older people with frailty, and factors perceived to facilitate and hinder implementation.
At King’s he was past module lead for social research methods in public health and led on delivering a number of courses, including: the contribution of ethnography in implementation science; systems and stakeholder approaches in implementation science; design and evaluation of complex interventions; using theory in applied health research; co-production in health services research and conducting a systematic review and narrative synthesis of qualitative studies in applied health research. He is also PhD supervisor and past Masters’ research dissertation supervisor at King’s.
At the University of Southampton Euan is currently leading and collaborating on a programme of research which focuses on improving the implementation of integrated care approaches to improve health, wellbeing and social support for older people living with frailty and their carers.
He leads the frailty education on the undergraduate nursing curricula in the department, contributes to teaching research methods and is research dissertation supervisor at undergraduate, Masters and doctoral levels.
Qualifications
PhD Gerontology
MA Medical Anthropology
MSc Gerontology
BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy
Member of the British Society of Gerontology
Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
Health and Care Professions Council member, registered physiotherapist