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New Averil Osborn Secretary and Deputy Secretary Announced.

CALL FOR PAPERS Frailty, Illness, and Health in Deep Old Age:Perspectives from Medical Sociology and Social Gerontology

The IJERPH has published a call for papers to be included in a special issue, ‘Rising to the Healthy Ageing Challenge: Co-production with Older People and Business’. Details are available at IJERPH | Special Issue : Rising to the Healthy Ageing Challenge: Co-production with Older People and Business (mdpi.com) Submissions are invited for review until the deadline of 31 October 2024 and accepted papers will be published online immediately following acceptance.

The first issue of the Journal of Global Ageing is now out. All papers will be free to access until the end of July 2024.

A team of researchers from The University of Manchester has spent the last 18 months examining how faith spaces in Greater Manchester support different groups of older people within their communities.

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

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.

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).