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Policy Report: Shifting How We View the Ageing Process
This Report summarises findings from a Policy Lab that explored the value, feasibility and acceptability of shifting how we view the ageing process. Its goal is to achieve attitudinal change to ageing, by moving away from a narrative of disease and decline towards the idea that ageing is a lifelong process of change.

Shifting How We View the Ageing Process summarises findings from a Policy Lab held in the context of The Sciences of Ageing and the Culture of Youth (SAACY), a research programme on ageing funded by a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship, hosted at the Centre for the Humanities and Health at King's College London. SAACY looks at how we talk and think about ageing, in scientific research, medical practice and wider culture, and how the way we do so can affect our experiences of ageing, the meaning we assign to getting older, and the decisions we make about older people. The Report condenses findings from a one-day workshop that explored the value, feasibility and acceptability of shifting how we view the ageing process. Its goal is to achieve attitudinal change to ageing, by moving away from a narrative of disease and decline towards the idea that ageing is a lifelong process of change.

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