The research paper shares the five challenges the team, led by Dr. Maureen Markle-Reid, learned from working with older adult partners throughout the research process. These were:
1) actively finding patient partners who reflect the diversity of older adults with multimorbidity;
2) developing strong working relationships with patient partners;
3) providing education and support for both patient partners and researchers;
4) using flexible approaches for engaging patients, and;
5) securing adequate resources to enable meaningful engagement.
The hope is that this paper will provide guidance to researchers on how to have meaningfully engage with this vulnerable and understudied subgroup in the patient engagement literature.