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Oct 2020

Your future may be brighter than you think…

On October 4th, in Covid-19 time, typical showers were falling in London but under atypical conditions, a handful of elite …

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Sep 2020

How do people think about later life when making workplace pension saving decisions?

by Dr Hayley James, Prof Debora Price and Dr Tine Buffel How people save for later life has become a …

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Sep 2020

Needing to spend more than a penny – the future of public toilet provision in an age-friendly London

It’s not easy to do full justice to Jane Hopkins’ formidable survey of public conveniences in the Royal Borough of …

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Dr Paul Nash, Lecturer, Centre For Innovative Ageing at Swansea University talks about the importance of Gerontology

Gerontology: What is it and why is it important?

The 50th

BSG Annual Conference

6-9 July 2021
Lancaster University

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Events & Courses

22 October 2020

Webinar: Old age in the age of Coronavirus

23 November 2020

Delirium Prevention, Assessment and Effective Management

25 November 2020 - 27 November 2020

BGS Autumn Meeting 2020

27 November 2020

Falls Prevention & Management in Older People

31 December 2020

AGEING & DESPAIR TOWARDS PATIENCE AND HOPE FOR HEALTH AND CARE

07 July 2021 - 09 July 2021

BSG Annual Conference 2021

Winning Photos from Photocrowd and the British Society of Gerontology

Ageing: the bigger picture

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16 October 2020

Professor Thomas Scharf’s short lecture on 'Ageism & age stereotyping during COVID-19'

Don’t miss Professor Thomas Scharf’s short lecture on 'Ageism & age stereotyping during COVID-19.

16 October 2020

Centre for Ageing Better in collaboration with Ipsos MORI Report:

The Centre for Ageing Better has produced a report, in collaboration with Ipsos MORI.

16 October 2020

UK Court of Appeal ruling rejects landmark legal challenge to government's changes to women’s pensions

The Court of Appeal ruling on the case relating to women’s pensions dismissed the appeal made by two claimants, Julie Delve, 62, and Karen Glynn, 63, that the changes to women’s pensions were unlawful.

24 July 2020

Ageing and COVID-19

Contributions to the BSG’s Ageing Issues blog have attracted a lot of attention in recent weeks (https://ageingissues.wordpress.com/). In addition to the Society’s well-read statement on COVID-19, blogs have been posted by Chris Phillipson (Covid-19 and the crisis in residential and nursing home care), Ann Leahy (Time to Confront the Portrait in the Attic? Reflections on Theories and Discourses of Ageing sparked by the COVID-19 crisis), and the Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group (Covid-19: Bringing the Social Back In). Other contributions are always welcome. Please send your blogs to: info@britgerontology.org.

24 July 2020

Call for any unpublished studies or data for a systematic review and meta analysis on the impact of group-based arts interventions on the health and wellbeing of older adults

23 July 2020

Human Rights of People Living with Dementia

A new project funded by the Dementia Australia Research Foundation explores perspectives of people living with dementia, care partners, care home workers, advocates and lawyers on realising human rights of people living with dementia in care homes. The project makes recommendations to engage human rights to end the confinement and segregation of people living with dementia in care homes, ultimately proposing deinstitutionalisation of the aged care system.

Jobs

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

Deadline: 16 April 2018

London College of Fashion, University of the Arts and Dementia Research Centre, Institute of Neurology, University College Lond

Arts and Dementia Care PhD Scholarship: London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. A partnership award with the Dementia Research Centre, Institute of Neurology, University College London