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We are delighted to confirm that the first issue of the Journal of Global Ageing will publish in May 2024.

The COST Programming action aims to improve the care of older people across Europe, through improving training and education for non-geriatricians. We are carrying out a survey of healthcare professionals, researchers and social workers to understand educational interests and training needs regarding older people. If you would like more information or to complete the survey, please follow this link https://cost-programming.eu/survey/ The survey is open until 30th April. Thank you!

Re-launch of the BSG Scotland group via new Twitter/X account and mailing list.

Established in 1994, the Averil Osborn Award seeks to promote and support work which enhances the participation and leadership of older people in research. Awards are made annually. The panel are seeking new panel members to join the current established team. We are also seeking a new Secretary to the Panel as the current Secretary is stepping down after serving since 2019.

Please find below a call for articles on Ageing in the Mountains of the Journal of Alpine Research, a scientific, quarterly, international, multidisciplinary and plurilingual journal on the Alpine arc and the mountains of the world.

Gail Mountain has recently publshed a book "Occupational Therapy with Older People into the 21st centuy

My name is Dr Emma Short. I am a research associate at Cardiff Metropolitan University and a Consultant Histopathologist in Swansea Bay University Health Board. I am wanting to enquire whether anyone would be interested in joining a working group as a subject-expert as part of our project, the 'Classification and Staging of Age-Related Pathology'. The project seeks to unify current research on the biology of ageing, by developing a comprehensive system for classifying and staging age-related pathology, to complement the WHO’s International Classification of Diseases (ICD).

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.

Anthropology & Aging, the official journal of the Association for Anthropology, Gerontology and the Lifecourse (AAGE) has just published its latest issue, Volume 44, No. 1 (2023). http://anthro-age.pitt.edu/ojs/anthro-age/announcement/view/23 Follow us! Twitter: @AnthroandAging | Facebook: @AnthropologyandAgingJournal

COVID-19, INEQUALITY AND OLDER PEOPLE: EVERYDAY LIFE DURING THE PANDEMIC Camilla Lewis, Chris Phillipson, Sophie Yarker and Luciana Lang