Forthcoming BSG conference: Call for Abstracts Annual Conference of the British Society of Gerontology, September 4-6 2008 Sustainable Futures in an Ageing World Simon Evans University of Bristol

‘Sustainable Futures in an Ageing World’ is the main theme of the 2008 BSG Annual Conference, which will be held in Bristol from the 4th to 6th of September.

Please send us your abstracts for papers and posters by 30th April 2008 under the following sub-themes:

• Housing and later environments;
• Income maintenance in later life;
• Families and inter-generational support;
• Long term care & community care;
• Health and wellbeing.
  

We also welcome proposals for symposia under the overall conference theme of ‘sustainable futures in an ageing world’ by 28th March 2008.

Full details of how to submit are on the conference website at www.bsg2008.org.uk

Here you can also find everything else you need to know about the conference, including how to register, the conference programme and biographies of our exciting speakers:

• Graham Rowles, Director, Graduate Center for Gerontology, University of Kentucky;
• Alex Kalache, Director of the World Health Organization’s Ageing Program;
• Miriam Bernard, Centre for Social Gerontology, Keele University;
• Mr Tony Benn (conference after-dinner speaker).

We look forward to receiving your abstracts and proposals and to welcoming you to Bristol in September 2008.

From the conference organising group, Bristol

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