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Dear All
We are pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new ESRC funded Seminar
Series:
The 'New' Ageing Populations: Mapping identities, health, needs and
responses across the lifecourse
There has been considerable public interest in the social and health-related
effects of population ageing and increasing longevity on the developed and
developing world. These impacts are not only demographic but also
epidemiological, with the weight of disease and disability now being
experienced largely by older people. However, contemporaneous advances in
preventative and curative medicine, as well as changes in the social
contexts in which health interventions are delivered, have enabled many
people to live a longer and healthier life than was possible a few decades
ago, either by surviving childhood due to these advances, living longer
lives due to continuing medical advances changing the course and nature of
disease, or living past an earlier ‘failure’ of regulation. There is now a
greater realisation that what actually constitutes ‘ageing’ is becoming more
difficult to demarcate, whether in terms of physiological ‘normality,’
cultural expectations, or social provision. Changes to the patterning and
nature of ‘old age’ therefore raise important questions about our
understanding of the contemporary circumstances surrounding ageing for
researchers, providers and policy makers alike.
The aim of this seminar series is to map the nature of the emergence of
rapid recent growth and ageing of populations not normally associated with
‘old age’, widen debates of health, identity, disability and ageing by
examining and presenting from multiple perspectives the impact on, and
implications of, biomedical science on the rapid growth of new ageing
populations, focusing on those in mid- to later life, and present these
viewpoints through a number of perspectives, and address the implications
that arise from this.
The ESRC Seminar series is an academic collaboration between King’s College
London (Dr Karen Lowton, Senior Lecturer in Ageing & Health, Institute of
Gerontology), University College London (Paul Higgs, Professor of the
Sociology of Ageing, Division of Research Strategy) and University of Surrey
(Dr Karen Ballard, Senior Lecturer in Women's Health, Postgraduate Medical
School).
A series of six seminars will take place during 2010 and 2011
Seminar 1: Monday 25th January 2010
Why Study New Ageing Populations?
Time: 2.30 – 5.30pm. Refreshments will be available from 2pm
Venue: The Council Room, King’s College London, Strand, WC2R 2LS
Our first seminar will address the emergence of new ageing populations and
the challenges for services and policy that ensue. We are pleased to
announce the speakers at this event are:
Emma Lake, Expert Patient Advisor, Cystic Fibrosis Trust. Growing older with
cystic fibrosis
Rosie Barnes, Chief Executive, Cystic Fibrosis Trust. What challenges do
adults with cystic fibrosis lay down for service provision and policy?
Christina Victor, Professor of Gerontology and Public Health, Brunel
University. What challenges do new ageing populations lay down for social
gerontology?
There is no charge for attendance at the seminars. A limited number of
travel bursaries for postgraduate students are available. Please contact
[log in to unmask] to register your attendance and for travel bursary
enquiries.
Future Seminar Speakers include:
Baroness Campbell of Surbiton
Carol Walker, Professor of Social Policy, University of Lincoln; Sharon
Kaufmann, Professor of Medical Anthropology (in Residence) in the Institute
for Health & Aging, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and
Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of
California, San Francisco Bryan S Turner, the Alona Evans Distinguished
Visiting Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College, Faculty Associate of
the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University
For further information about all six seminars in the series, visit
www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/geront/news/esrcseminar/programme.html, email
[log in to unmask] or contact Dr Karen Lowton 0207 848 2566
This Seminar will be immediately followed by the Institute of Gerontology,
Age Concern and Help the Aged’s David Hobman Annual lecture, to which all
seminar participants are invited.
The 2010 David Hobman Annual Lecture will be given by Dr Alexandre
Sidorenko, previously UN Focal Point on Ageing:
“Old age in a global environment: lessons from the UN programme on ageing”.
Further information is available at
www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/geront/news/annlec09.html A wine reception will
follow the lecture. So that we can plan for catering, please confirm your
attendance at [log in to unmask]
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