Enhancing our understanding of later life

The British Society of Gerontology provides a multidisciplinary forum for researchers and other individuals interested in the situations of older people, and in how knowledge about ageing and later life can be enhanced and improved. BSG is a registered charitable company and is the professional organisation representing gerontologists in Britain.

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Feb 2021

Age-friendly cities and communities of the 21st Century

Hannah R. Marston1 & Joost van Hoof2,3 1Health and Wellbeing Strategic Research Area, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. Hannah.Marston@open.ac.uk …

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Jan 2021

Happy New Year, 3rd Wave, Lockdown 3.0 & Easter

Hannah R Marston1 & Deborah J. Morgan2 1Health and Wellbeing Strategic Research Area, The Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA. …

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Nov 2020

Intersectionality and the Life Course

Daniel Holman and Alan Walker It is axiomatic that the life course perspective is fundamental to understanding unequal ageing. People …

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Gerontology: What is it and why is it important?

Events & Courses

09 March 2021

Transforming Acute Care for Older People Living with Frailty

11 March 2021

Care homes in the COVID-19 era: A clinician's perspective

16 March 2021

Delirium Prevention, Assessment and Effective Management

16 March 2021

Delirium Prevention, Assessment and Effective Management

18 March 2021

Lockdown in poor housing: Health impacts on older people and successful responses

18 March 2021

AGENET seminar

23 March 2021

Liberty Protection Safeguards Implementation of the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019

31 March 2021

Writing for Publication: A Masterclass with Athina Vlachantoni, Deputy Editor, Ageing & Society.

20 April 2021

Falls Prevention Summit 2021: Reducing Inpatient Falls & Harm from Inpatient Falls

27 April 2021

Adult Safeguarding: Delivering a Strengths-Based Approach

27 April 2021

Improving End of Life Care for People with Dementia during Covid-19

28 April 2021

Prehabilitation: Principles & Practice for Supporting Patients to Get Fit for Surgery/Treatment

Winning Photos from Photocrowd and the British Society of Gerontology

Ageing: the bigger picture

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23 February 2021

eLife has published a new special issue on aging, geroscience and longevity

The special issue marks the rapid progress made in this field over the past decade, both in terms of mechanistic understanding and translational approaches that are poised to have clinical impact on age-related diseases.

23 February 2021

Theatre company 'LUNG' request about a small, digital project: specifically looking for people born in the 1920s

The producing team at a theatre company called LUNG wanted to reach out to you about a small, digital project they're running, to see if you and some of the people you work with might be interested in getting involved. We are specifically looking for people who were born in the 1920s.

16 February 2021

Alison Shaw, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences

BSG is delighted that Alison Shaw, Chief Executive of Bristol University Press, has been conferred the award of Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

08 February 2021

Co-Production within Research: Insights from Bristol & Torbay

Free webinar: Thursday 25th February 11:00 – 11:50 Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/co-production-within-research-insights-from-bristol-torbay-tickets-137442952571 Are you an organisation interested in working together with members of the public to carry out research? Do you wonder how a co-production approach can be applied within a research setting?

08 February 2021

Dementia-related materials for south Asian communities

Researchers from the ADAPT study are seeking dementia-related resources that are working well with people from any south Asian community.

18 January 2021

House of Lords Science and Technology Committee

The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee recently launched the wide-ranging report of its inquiry on Ageing: Science, Technology and Healthy Living.

Jobs

Deadline: 28 February 2021

University of East Anglia

PhD Opportunity

Deadline: 31 December 2018

The Centre for innovative Ageing at Swansea University

Postgraduate Programmes in Gerontology & Ageing Studies

Deadline: 31 August 2018

Nanyang Technical University

Visiting Fellow

Deadline: 02 July 2018

Institute of Public Health in Ireland

Evaluations and Interventions Officer – Ageing and public health

Deadline: 02 July 2018

Institute of Public Health in Ireland

Knowledge Translation Officer - Ageing and Public Health

Deadline: 22 June 2018

Institute of Public Health in Ireland

Public Health Interventions Officer - Loneliness