A world turned upside down: Responding creatively to Covid-19
As part of Creativity & Wellbeing Week 2020: Positive Futures (18-24 May) the BSG Creative Ageing Special Interest Group are …
Category Archives: Families
Sheila Peace; response to ‘care homes: don’t leave them to die’.
(Sheila Peace, Emeritus Professor of Social Care, Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies, The Open University). Today’s Evening Standard …
Covid-19 and the crisis in residential and nursing home care
Posted by Chris Phillipson, Manchester Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Ageing (MICRA) Can society be trusted to run care homes? …
Covid-19: Statement from the President and Members of the National Executive Committee of the British Society of Gerontology
A pdf of this statement can be downloaded from the British Society of Gerontology website The British Society of Gerontology …
COVID-19 vs Social Isolation: the Impact Technology can have on Communities, Social Connections and Citizens
Hannah R. Marston1, Charles Musselwhite2, & Robin Hadley3 1Health and Wellbeing Priority Research Area, The Open University, Milton Keynes. Hannah.Marston@open.ac.uk …
Pensions on divorce: why practice needs to change
Debora Price is a Professor of Social Gerontology at the University of Manchester and a member of the Pension Advisory …
BSG Technology & Ageing Special Interest Group (SIG)
Technology & Ageing SIG Meeting Wednesday 4th July 11.30-12.30 The use of technology and digital devices are pivotal in the …
Old Friends or Young Friends – they are all worth the time and effort
These days it feels like friendship has become a commodity. If Facebook is taken as the main platform …
Very pleased to meet you, NICOLA: understanding ageing in Northern Ireland
Monday 27 November 2017 marked a new beginning for gerontology in Northern Ireland, with the launch of key findings from …
The Pension Advisory Group: developing guidance on pensions on divorce
This blog is about an issue very close to my heart. Indeed, my concern about the treatment of pensions on divorce was what took me from my first career as a barrister at Coram Chambers to my second as a social gerontologist. I am very pleased to report, therefore, that under the leadership and joint chairmanship of Mr Justice Francis and His Honour Judge Edward Hess, the “Pension Advisory Group” (“PAG”) has been formed.
