Enhancing our understanding of later life

The BSG Ageism Special Interest Group (SIG) will be bringing out the fifth edition of the BSG Ageism SIG newsletter in July 26 (week of the 8th) and invite you to contribute to it.

The Beyond Midlife Commission will focus on one of the most pressing and yet under-examined challenges facing our country: how we support people approaching midlife and beyond to thrive in the labour market.

We have extended the lifespan of our research strategy from spring 2026 to spring 2028, to align our organisational and research strategies. We fund research that covers the causes, consequences and effects of the most prevalent arthritis conditions, and those that have the highest impacts on people. We will also support those conditions most frequently associated with arthritis. We do not actively exclude any areas of arthritis-related research. We will prioritise our investments to ensure that we maintain a varied and balanced research awards portfolio that covers the most prevalent arthritis conditions as well as rarer conditions.

The Ageing, Business and Society (ABS) Special Interest Group is looking to welcome new members to its Leadership Team - and we’d love to hear from you, or from anyone you think might be interested.

The British Society of Gerontology is pleased to announce that Michèle Boden has been appointed Vice Chair of the Ageing Business and Society Special Interest Group, working alongside Rob Walton, the current Chair.

We will now be publishing our newsletters on our Linked in page https://www.linkedin.com/company/bsgageismsig/?viewAsMember=true as well as sending it to our email members and to the British Society of Gerontology membership directly.