Forthcoming conferences:

Transforming the Adult Social Care Workforce: Putting People First

24th November 2009, Westminster, London

With an ever ageing society that expects and requires the highest standards of care, the need for good quality adult social care practitioners and services is paramount. To address these challenges, and build on the wider personalised services agenda, the Government launched the strategy, "Working to Put People First: The Strategy for the Adult Social Care Workforce in England". This conference will provide delegates with an opportunity to consider the latest Government proposals, examine the barriers to implementation, discuss their implications, and look at the way ahead for the adult social care workforce.

For full details please visit the Westminster Briefing website.

42nd National Conference of the Australian Association of Gerontology. Translation & Transformation: Connecting what we know and what we do.

25 - 27th November 2009, National Convention Centre, Canberra, Australia

Abstract Submission is NOW OPEN

Further information is available on the conference website – please visit the program page at www.aagconference.com
For further information, please contact the Conference Managers:
EAST COAST CONFERENCES
Jayne Hindle, Jane Howorth, Susan Contemprée, Amy McIntosh

T: (61-2) 6650 9800 F: (61-2) 6650 9700 M: 0423 497 038

PO Box 848, Coffs Harbour NSW 2450 Australia

jayne@eastcoastconferences.com.au

www.eastcoastconferences.com.au

‘Ageing Societies: Change, Challenge and Chance’ Postgraduate Conference on Ageing Studies

Friday 4th December 2009
Sponsors: Oxford Institute of Ageing and St. Antony’s College
Speakers Include:

- Mr. Paul Cann, Chief Executive, Age Concern Oxfordshire

- Professor Sarah Harper, Professor of Gerontology and Director of Oxford Institute of Ageing

- Mr. Jonthan Herring, Fellow in Law, Exeter College, University of Oxford

- Professor Paul Higgs, Professor of the Sociology of Ageing, University College London

- Dr. George Leeson, Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director of Oxford Institute of Ageing

- Professor Chris Phillipson, Professor of Applied Social Studies and Social Gerontology, Keele University

We are pleased to announce a one-day Postgraduate Conference on Ageing Studies on 4th December 2009 at St. Antony’s College and Institute of Ageing, University of Oxford. The conference offers opportunities for students to present their work, receive feedback and build up networks for further collaboration and research training.

Masters and doctoral students with an interest in any fields of Ageing are welcome to attend. Places are limited to facilitate intensive discussion and exchange of ideas. The conference is FREE to attend BUT REGISTRATION IS NECESSARY. Please note that lunch is not provided by the organizer but the college dining hall serves lunch at a reasonable price.

Please direct any queries to Chair Organizer, Yiu-tung Suen at YIU.SUEN@SOCIOLOGY.OX.AC.UK.

Social Care Workforce Research Unit [SCWRU] Expert Seminar: International Social Care Workers in England: Experiences and Expectations

9th December 2009 at King's College London

This Expert Seminar offers access to the emerging findings of a two-year research project exploring the numbers, characteristics, experiences and expectations of international social care workers. Presentations will also include local authority and GSCC perspectives and a range of other national and international research on the experiences and impact of international social care staff.

Ageing Population 2010

25th February 2010, QEII Conference Centre, London

The Ageing Population Conference 2010 on the 25 February will bring together
key partners from the public, private and third sectors responsible for the delivery of key initiatives
designed to ensure that older people live longer, healthier and more active lives.

Speaking at this event are:

Angela Eagle MP, Minister of State for Pensions and the Ageing Society (Provisionally Confirmed)
Alexandra Norrish, Head of Social Care Strategy, Department of Health (Confirmed)
Daron Walker, Director Fuel Poverty Review, Department for Energy and Climate Change (Confirmed)
Barbara Young, Chair, Care Quality Commission (Confirmed)
Stephen O’Brien MP, Shadow Health Minister (Confirmed)
Oliver James, Broadcaster, Journalist & Author of ‘Contented Dementia’ (Confirmed)
Andrew Forrest, WSD Programme Manager, Cornwall (Confirmed)
Councillor Felicity Hindson, Executive Member for Adult Social Care, Hampshire County Council (Confirmed)
Claire Rayner, Broadcaster (Confirmed)
Oliver Mills, Managing Director of Kent Social Services (Confirmed)

CPD CERTIFIED
This means that attendance at any of our events can contribute to your Continuing Personal and
Professional Development and help you meet your own targets. All attendees will be provided with access
to download the event CPD certificate post-conference.

For more information please visit www.govnet.co.uk/ageing

Embodiment and dementia

University of Bradford, Bradford, 26 March 2010
British Sociological Association Ageing, Body and Society Study Group

Confirmed Keynote address: Dr Pia Kontos, University of Toronto, Canada

The group organises seminars, workshops, conferences and other events and has an e-mail discussion list as well as a web page - www.britsoc.co.uk/specialisms/AgeingBodyandSociety. New members, including students, are very welcome to join the Group. To put your name on the Ageing, Body and Society Study Group mailing list and for further information contact Wendy Martin. wendy.martin@brunel.ac.uk

Understanding ageing: health wealth and wellbeing at fifty and beyond
International conference St Catherine's College Oxford, 14-16th April 2010

This international conference will bring together researchers working in the economic, social, psychological and health fields. It will focus on longitudinal data and research that enables us to increase our understanding of how circumstances and factors across the life-course impact on healthy ageing. The aim is also to pinpoint gaps in knowledge and identify priorities for future research.

Keynote speakers:

James J. Heckman
Nobel Laureate; Henry Shultz Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Economics, University of Chicago

David Barker
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, University of Southampton

Jack Guralnik
Chief, Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, United States

Call for Papers:

The 'Understanding Ageing' conference committee is now inviting submissions of abstracts for paper presentations (30 minutes), themed sessions (90 minutes), and posters (deadline 28th August 2009). These can be on any of the announced topics but also, as befits the theme of the conference, abstracts in any area of interest relevant to ageing will be welcomed.

Submissions from researchers in the early stages of their careers are encouraged.

Potential topics:

• Life-course determinants of healthy ageing, including the effect of early-life circumstances on outcomes in later life
• Frailty, disability and physical functioning at older ages
• Ageing and cognition
• Employment at older ages and transitions to retirement
• Economic and financial circumstances over the life-course
• Ageing, social participation and wellbeing in later life
• Government policies and the ageing population

Further details available at:

www.cls.ioe.ac.uk/ageingconf

Whose Challenging Behaviours? Meeting the Needs of Older People with Dementia.

This seminar will be held on 29-30 April 2010 at Four Seasons Hotel, 199 George St, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Seminar Aims:
• To highlight strategies for managing behaviours that affect access to and the delivery
of services/care for older people with dementia, including what works well and what
doesn’t work so well.
• To showcase patient centred approaches, models of service delivery/care/respite/
support, tools and techniques, and other innovations that have been proven to be
effective in managing behaviours that impact the care of older people with dementia.
• To demonstrate effective approaches to education and training for healthcare
professionals to better enable them to delivery quality care for older people with
dementia with challenging behaviour.

http://www.changechampions.com.au or by email to changechampions@bigpond.com

Climate for change: Ageing into the Future. IFA 10th Global Conference on Ageing

3 - 6 May 2010

Melbourne, Australia

The 10th Global Conference on Ageing will provide a reliable platform for a global information exchange and point of connection for all, working to generate positive social change for older people. The five themes that form the program framework - Climate Change; Social Inclusion; Human Rights; Resourcing Change; and Healthy Ageing - are expected to stimulate new conversations as well as explore in more depth more traditional subject areas. Each theme will be informed by international and regional frameworks including United Nations (UN) Principles for Older People, the UN Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing and the Active Ageing Framework of the World Health Organization.

Abstract Submission Deadline: 7 October 2009

Further details available at:

http://www.ifa2010.org/

BSG Scotland and Dementia Services Development Centre Conference: Involving Older People

Iris Murdoch Building, University of Stirling, 14 June 2010

A one-day conference organised by BSG Scotland and Dementia Services Development Centre, University of Stirling. Further details to be announced.
Contact Email:susan.tester@stir.ac.uk

39th Annual British Society of Gerontology Conference

6 - 8 July 2010

Brunel University, West London

Confirmed keynote speakers:
Professor Anne E. Martin-Matthews, University of British Columbia, Canada
Professor Fiona Ross, St George’s University of London, UK
Professor Julia Twigg, University of Kent, UK

• Submission of abstracts: by 29th January 2010
• Submission of symposium proposals: by 29th January 2010
• Earlybird registration, up to and including: 7 May 2010
• Full programme available: by 30 April 2010

For further information, please contact:
Marianne Keane

Brunel Institute for Ageing Studies

Brunel University

Mary Seacole Building

Uxbridge

Middlesex

UB8 3PH

Tel: +44 (0)189 5266197

Email: Marianne.Keane@Brunel.ac.uk

More information here

International Association of Gerontology & Geriatrics (IAGG), European Social Research Section (ESR) Annual Conference

Gerontology Without Borders: Diversity in European & Transnational Ageing Research

1–3 July 2010, Swansea, Wales (UK)

For details please visit: www.gerontology2010.swansea.ac.uk or contact us by email: p.nash@swansea.ac.uk
or telephone: +44(0)1792 602906

XVIIth ISA World Congress of Sociology 2010, “Sociology on the Move”

11 - 17 July 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden

RC11 – Sociology of Aging is organising a full programme of sessions during the ISA World Congress in Gothenburg, Sweden, 11-17th July 2010.

We welcome submission of abstracts from a diversity of countries to present papers on aging for the RC11 sessions listed below.

Abstracts MUST include:

• Name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s)
• Contact details of presenting author (postal address, telephone, fax + email)
• Title of the proposed presentation
• A maximum of 250 word description of the proposed paper, subdivided into the following sections: Introduction; Methods; Results; Conclusions.
• An indication of the session you would like to submit your abstract to.

Please email your abstract by the deadline of 10th November to the RC11 Programme Coordinator, Sara Arber - S.Arber@surrey.ac.uk. Please also copy your abstract to the relevant session organiser(s).

Papers with a cross-national, comparative focus and papers by researchers earlier in their career are particularly welcomed.

More information on the sessions to be held available here

3rd Annual One Day Conference: ‘Futures of Ageing: Science, Technology and Society’

British Library, London, 19 July 2010

Confirmed Keynote address: Professor Simon Williams, University of Warwick ‘How Old is Your Brain?: Neuroculture, Active Ageing and Cognitive Decline’

The group organises seminars, workshops, conferences and other events and has an e-mail discussion list as well as a web page - www.britsoc.co.uk/specialisms/AgeingBodyandSociety. New members, including students, are very welcome to join the Group. To put your name on the Ageing, Body and Society Study Group mailing list and for further information contact Wendy Martin. wendy.martin@brunel.ac.uk

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