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As populations and life expectancies increase, interventions to enhance health, well-being, and quality of life become more intricate and more complex. Often, new health interventions and innovations designed to counter progressive age-related challenges never achieve a real-world impact because the product never makes it into real-world settings, or if it does, it is found to be irrelevant or ineffective for addressing the problem at hand. To develop health interventions that have real-world impacts (as described in Wada et al. Chap. 9) requires collective, innovative problem-solving, integrating knowledge and expertise from both academic and nonacademic disciplines and sectors, as well as the people we aim to serve. This fundamental idea of co-creation as an inherent part of transdisciplinarity, described more fully in Grigorovich et al. (see Chap. 3), stems from participatory action research, a research approach which is an important part of transdisciplinary working (TDW).
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Fang, M.L., Grigorovich, A., Wada, M., Kontos, P., Sixsmith, J. (2021). Building Partnerships and Co-creating with Diverse Stakeholders. In: Sixsmith, A., Sixsmith, J., Mihailidis, A., Fang, M.L. (eds) Knowledge, Innovation, and Impact: A Guide for the Engaged Health Researcher. International Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration, and Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34390-3_6
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