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The Australian Government’s Royal engagement of older persons and their carers Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety and consider the: (2021) identified the need to improve the delivery of health care to meet the needs of • barriers and facilitators to engaging older older persons and their carers. [...] importance of involving older persons and Participatory health research is one such their carers in health research to improve mechanism to elevate the voices of older health care responsiveness (i.e., the ability for persons and their carers as co-researchers in health care systems to meet the health and research of relevance to them. [...] Although definitions and participatory research offers a vehicle to shift the scope of co-researchers vary between the practice of framing older persons and studies, we define co-researchers as persons carers as the research subjects, to engaging who contribute as members of a research older persons and carers as co-researchers team to all stages of the research process (International Collaboratio. [...] 2021) Further, of the research process (e.g., dissemination of there is little guidance from the study findings) and actively engages older recommendations of the Royal Commission to persons and their carers as co-researchers in enact the participation of older persons and all stages of the research process (James & their carers in research (Commonwealth of Buffel, 2022). [...] 5 Engaging older persons and carers as co-researchers Perspectives brief No: 29 Barriers and facilitators of engaging older persons and their carers in health research Barriers and facilitators to engaging older research practices have occurred) (Bainbridge persons in health research, including non- et al.