Welcome from your editors Wendy Martin, Samuel R. Nyman, Subrata Saha, Christina Victor and Veronika Williams

• Message from the President of BSG - Kate Davidson
• Averil Osborn Memorial Fund – Sue Venn
• News from BSG Scotland - Susan Tester
• Relaunch of the BSA Ageing, Body and Society group – Wendy Martin and Julia Twigg
• Update on the New Dynamics of Ageing Programme – Alan Walker
• Reports from BSG Bursary awards of 2007
• Report on the 60th Scientific meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, San Francisco - Samuel R Nyman and Veronika Williams
• Report on the 60th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America: the perspective of a research student - Theocharis Stavroulakis
• Researchers from University College London are finalists in prestigious GSA prize competition - Christina Victor
• Call for abstracts: BSG Bristol 2008 – Simon Evans
• Report from the Honorary Secretary - Jenny Hislop
  

Information on forthcoming conferences

Randall Smith, Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol

Research Papers

• Older People and the Penal System - Nick Le Mesurier, Staffordshire University
• ‘The Last Refuge’ Revisited: A Case Study - Julia Johnson (The Open University), Sheena Rolph (The Open University) and Randall Smith (Bristol University)
  

PhD Abstracts

• A Breath of Fresh Air - The Experience of Activity in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - Veronika Williams
• Embodying ‘Active’ Ageing: Bodies, Emotions and Risk in Later Life - Wendy Martin
• Paying the Piper and Calling the Tune: A Study to Consider how the Opportunity to Employ Workers Using Cash Payments Affects the Support Relationship - Janet Leece
  

• Working to improve quality of life for Black and Minority Ethnic elders – about PRIAE (Policy Research Institute on Ageing and Ethnicity) - Policy Research Institute on Ageing and Ethnicity
• Experiencing the NHS as a patient - Clare Wenger, Emeritus Professor of Gerontology

The British Geriatrics Society at 60 – David Oliver, Senior Lecturer, University of Reading; Secretary of the British Geriatrics Society

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