Walking Interviews highlight of initial SAGE Fieldwork

In perhaps one of the wettest and coldest months in memory, Abigail Gardner, Stephen Tatlow, Philip Reeder, Alice Goodenough and Wendy Martin (Brunel) have embarked on Phase One of their two-year UKRI funded project, SAGE Sound Environment and Ageing: Bringing the Outside into Care Homes. This involves them conducting walking interviews with care home managers and nature facilitators about a range of topics including the importance of being outside, what people might miss if they were unable to go outside, and the impact of ageing on how we interact with the natural world. One of the main topics explored in the walking interviews, is how the SAGE project’s methods and outcomes can be usefully shaped to the care home environment.