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Conversations on Urban Ageing

September 29, 2022

The study of urban ageing brings together two of the most important social changes of our time: population ageing and …

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BSG2022 Conference Report from Anne Jamieson, Reader Emerita, Birkbeck, University of London

August 4, 2022

Thank you to the BSG for granting me a bursary to take part in this year’s conference. It was an …

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Co-creation and Co-production Initiatives for the Development of Age-friendly Strategies: Learning from the Three Capital Cities in the Basque Autonomous Region 

June 30, 2022

Martin Zuniga, Tine Buffel and Felix Arrieta This blog post is based on a paper published in Social Policy and …

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AgeTech Innovation Week: COVID-19 and AgeTech

January 14, 2022

Hannah R. Marston1, Andrew Sixsmith2, Joseph Coughlin3 and Sara Aghvami4 1Research Fellow at the Health and Wellbeing Strategic Research Area, …

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October 11, 2021

Mobility aid users aged 50+ face physical, social and psychological barriers to activity. Older mobility aid users face physical, social …

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Being a grandparent and depression: how does it differ across England, Europe and China?

September 29, 2021

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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Locked down by inequality: Older people and the COVID-19 pandemic

September 10, 2021

Authors: Patty Doran, Tine Buffel, Sophie Yarker, Chris Phillipson, Luciana Lang, Camilla Lewis and Mhorag Goff In the UK as …

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Loneliness, friendship and the emotions inside a nursing home

March 25, 2021

Francisca Ortiz, The Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis, University of Manchester. **Spoiler Alert: This blog post assumed that you …

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Age-friendly cities and communities of the 21st Century

February 9, 2021

Hannah R. Marston1 & Joost van Hoof2,3 1Health and Wellbeing Strategic Research Area, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. Hannah.Marston@open.ac.uk …

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Hair: A non-trivial matter

August 14, 2020

I’ve been reflecting on hair and hairdressing services over the weeks of lockdown and subsequent easing in the UK. As …

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