Covid-19 and the crisis in residential and nursing home care

April 8, 2020

Posted by Chris Phillipson, Manchester Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Ageing (MICRA) Can society be trusted to run care homes? …

‘Gerontology is good for you… so is gardening’

June 10, 2016

In preparing to address a room packed with enthusiastic gardeners, community activists and gerontologists at the latest BSG NI event, …

June 12, 2013

Two interesting things happened today. The Office for National Statistics published data showing that we now have, for the first …

April 25, 2013

I recently participated in an event organised by the Green Light Festival on sustainable ageing communities at De Montfort University …

July 19, 2011

I attended a very interesting seminar yesterday at the House of Lords exploring the impact of environmental change in the …