Conversations on Urban Ageing
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
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 …
Locked down by inequality: Older people and the COVID-19 pandemic
Authors: Patty Doran, Tine Buffel, Sophie Yarker, Chris Phillipson, Luciana Lang, Camilla Lewis and Mhorag Goff In the UK as …
Loneliness, friendship and the emotions inside a nursing home
Francisca Ortiz, The Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis, University of Manchester. **Spoiler Alert: This blog post assumed that you …
Age-friendly cities and communities of the 21st Century
Hannah R. Marston1 & Joost van Hoof2,3 1Health and Wellbeing Strategic Research Area, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. Hannah.Marston@open.ac.uk …
Hair: A non-trivial matter
I’ve been reflecting on hair and hairdressing services over the weeks of lockdown and subsequent easing in the UK. As …
Ageing Issues 