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Jun 2019

Dementia & Multi-Species Caring: Current Practice & Future Possibilities

Since the word was first-used within modern day psychiatry to describe the abolition of the thinking faculty (Pinel 1806), we have …

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May 2019

Rebuilding educational gerontology – reasons to be slightly more cheerful

Google ‘older people’s education’ and up comes a Guardian headline with the answer – ‘neglected’. The NIACE report in question was …

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May 2019

Talking creative engagement and ageing: Interview with Cathy Bailey, Creative Ageing SIG mentor

In the run up to the BSG 2019 conference, where the Creative Ageing Special Interest Group will run our inaugural …

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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 48th

BSG Annual Conference

10 - 12 July 2019
The University of Liverpool

Registration open soon

Events & Courses

13 September 2019 - 13 September 2019

Improving Continence in Older People

13 September 2019

Improving End of Life Care for People with Dementia

20 September 2019

Care of Dying Adults in the Last Days of Life: Improving Care and Ensuring Adherence to the NICE National Quality Standard

20 September 2019

Hip Replacement as a Day Case: Reducing Length of Stay & Improving Outcomes

20 September 2019 - 20 September 2019

Falls Prevention & Management in Older People Reducing falls and harm from falls

20 September 2019 - 20 September 2019

20th International Conference on Falls and Postural Stability

23 September 2019

Delirium Prevention, Assessment and Effective Management

25 September 2019 - 30 September 2020

Postgraduate Programme in Gerontology and Ageing Studies

27 September 2019

Self Neglect and Adult Safeguarding: Responding to Self Neglect & Hoarding

24 October 2019 - 26 October 2019

The Canadian Association on Gerontology welcomes you to Moncton, New Brunswick for our 48th Annual Scientific and Educational Meeting

06 November 2019 - 08 November 2019

British Geriatrics Society Autumn Meeting 2019

04 February 2020 - 06 February 2020

INCLUSIVENESS IN AN AGEING SOCIETY

Winning Photos from Photocrowd and the British Society of Gerontology

Ageing: the bigger picture

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19 June 2019

UK reps at Age Platform Europe General Assembly meeting in Brussels 12-14 June 2019

The British Society of Gerontology is working with older people's representative organisations through participation in the General Assembly of Age Platform Europe, which works on behalf of older citizens across the European Union.

07 May 2019

Special Interest Group(s) on Environmental Gerontology, is there interest in setting up such a group?

Please come along to a pre-meeting at this year’s BSG Annual Conference in Liverpool on Weds. July 10th - 12.45- 1.45 p.m. Check the Conference programme for the location and final details.

16 April 2019

Dr. Gemma Carney is representing the UK at the Age Council meeting in Brussels

Dr. Gemma Carney is representing the United Kingdom at the Age Council meeting in Brussels.

05 April 2019

Congratulations: Sarah Vickerstaff appointed as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences

Congratulations to Sarah Vickerstaff on her appointment as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

08 March 2019

Searching for interviewees / Article about UK multigenerational living for Finnish state broadcaster

06 February 2019

Dr Martin Hyde has created the #GeroTwitter

Dr Martin Hyde has created the #GeroTwitter hashtag for anyone who uses Twitter and is interested in sharing information, opportunities, asking questions, etc. about ageing.

Jobs

Deadline: 17 September 2019

Winston Churchill Memorial Trust

A Churchill Fellowship

Deadline: 09 August 2019

Centre for Applied Dementia Studies recruiting for the MSc Advanced Dementia Studies

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