Staying Strong: Why resistance training is important, especially as you age
Muscle strength is essential for living independently. Maintaining it for as long as possible becomes very important as we age. …
Tag Archives: Ageing
Photovoice, Care, and Loneliness: An exhibition by older migrants from Myanmar
On 2 May, I presented findings from my participatory PhD research project with older migrants from Myanmar at King’s College …
Dr Naomi Woodspring: An Appreciation
Dr Robin Means, Dr Sukey Parnell Johnson & Dr Margaret Page As the three of us let friends and former …
The Reflective Call of Carers Ageing without Children and/or Family: ‘Who will be there for me when I need it?
Robin Hadley is an Associate Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, an Early Career Researcher, founder member of the campaign group …
Conversations on Urban Ageing
The study of urban ageing brings together two of the most important social changes of our time: population ageing and …
BSG2022 Conference Report from Anne Jamieson, Reader Emerita, Birkbeck, University of London
Thank you to the BSG for granting me a bursary to take part in this year’s conference. It was an …
Co-creation and Co-production Initiatives for the Development of Age-friendly Strategies: Learning from the Three Capital Cities in the Basque Autonomous Region
Martin Zuniga, Tine Buffel and Felix Arrieta This blog post is based on a paper published in Social Policy and …
AgeTech Innovation Week: COVID-19 and AgeTech
Hannah R. Marston1, Andrew Sixsmith2, Joseph Coughlin3 and Sara Aghvami4 1Research Fellow at the Health and Wellbeing Strategic Research Area, …
Mobility aid users aged 50+ face physical, social and psychological barriers to activity. Older mobility aid users face physical, social …
Being a grandparent and depression: how does it differ across England, Europe and China?
Approximately one billion people in the world’s population are grandparents. As people live longer, healthier lives, grandparenting has become more and …
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