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

• Message from the President of BSG - Judith Phillips

• Journal of Population Ageing now available at a special rate for BSG members

• BSG Annual Conference 2009 – Bristol – Simon Evans

• BSG Annual Conference 2010 moves to Brunel University – Wendy Martin and Veronika Williams

• Review of BSG Scotland Members’ event 30th April 2009 - Louise McCabe

• Review of ERA annual conference, May 2009, Cardiff – Christian Beech

• Review of IAGG, July 2009, Paris – Maria Zubair

• Erasmus Lifelong Learning International Summer School - Fiona Brown, Helen Herniman, Hannah Young and Khim Horton

• New ESRC Seminar Series: ‘New Ageing Populations: Mapping Identities, Health, Needs and Responses across the Lifecourse’ – Karen Lowton, Paul Higgs, Karen Ballard

• Medical Research Council Network: Challenges and Healthy Ageing: The Role of Resilience Across the Life Course – Gill Windle

• Personalisation study urges providers to listen to views of older people and argues that specialist housing must be sustained - Wendy Gornicki

• Shaping the Future of Care Together’: A Response by Counsel and Care to the care green paper - Stephen Burke

• Tributes for Professor Peter Townsend

• Report from the Honorary Secretary - Wendy Martin

Information on forthcoming conferences

• Dr Una Lynch, School of Law, Queen’s University, Belfast

Research papers

• Making Older People Equal - Lisa Glennon and Brice Dickson, Queen's University, Belfast

• Fruit and vegetable consumption among older people in Northern Ireland - Katherine Appleton and Jayne Woodside, Queen's University, Belfast

• Prescribing for older people in care homes-control, context and culture - Carmel M. Hughes, Queen's University, Belfast

• Unpaid older carers: The backbone of community care - What community care? - Karola Dillenburger and Lyn McKerr, Queen's University, Belfast

• Computer-based tools for designers to improve decision making - Nicholas Humes, Dr. Karim Hadjri, and Dr. Peter Milligan, Queen’s University Belfast

PhD Abstracts

• Patient-centred care and vulnerability in old age - Clare Abley, Nurse Consultant for Vulnerable Older Adults, Newcastle upon Tyne

• Women's understandings of sexuality, sex and sexual problems: An interview based study - Gary Bellamy, Sheffield University

• Public Policy and Ageing in Northern Ireland: Identifying Levers for Change - Judith Cross, Centre for Ageing Research Development in Ireland

• Reminiscence Network Northern Ireland - Faith Gibson and Alexey Janes

• Meeting the challenge: Developing comprehensive rapid access services for older people at risk of deteriorating health within a day hospital setting - Lisa Carolan and Leona Robinson, Whiteabbey Hospital

• Home from Home: Supported Living for People with Dementia in Northern Ireland - Sonia Mawhinney and Paul Webb

• Older, Louder and Strong: the Changing Ageing Partnership putting older people first - Una Lynch, Changing Ageing Partnership (Cap), Queen’s University Belfast

• A Fulbright Experience - Pam Arnsberger, University of Hawaii School of Social Work

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