Present a paper, poster or symposium at the 47th Annual Conference of the British Society of Gerontology in Manchester, UK, 4th …
This blog discusses a BSG funded small event held on the 31st of August 2017 within the School of Health, …
It is surprisingly common for retirees to reverse their retirement: New research from a cross-research council funded consortium led by Professor Karen Glaser at King’s College London suggests that up to one quarter of Britons have been “unretiring” in recent years. However, not everybody has the same opportunities to unretire: those who are already well-favoured may find it easier to supplement their pension income with paid work in retirement. In this blog post, Dr. Loretta Platts, lead author of this paper, explains more.
Here in the UK we are becoming more familiar with dementia. There are television adverts alerting us that dementia can …
This blog article is an account of an event sponsored by a BSG Small Grant and with support also from CADR. We enjoyed a late morning psychogeographical exploration of neighbourhoods on the western edge of Cardiff’s city centre and an afternoon discussing the practice of researching communities. One main message for the study of gerontology came through all elements of the day – whether it was a guided tour of Riverside from socially-engaged artist Rabab Ghazoul [pictured below left], the drawings of Marega Palser or the afternoon presentations from Sherman 5’s Guy O’Donnell, Kate Spiller from Swansea RIAH and Charles Musselwhite from Swansea CIA – namely that neighbourhood is fluid and that we can only build up a picture of what it means to age [and to have aged] in a given place by making efforts to tap into groups, spaces and shared narratives.
Over the weekend, the Work and Pensions Select Committee called on the government to scrap the pensions triple lock, framing it …
This blog article outlines my reflections on the conference held in Edinburgh (12 – 14 October) and how the proceedings …
The launch of the book was held on Wednesday 5th October New book raises awareness of ways to healthy ageing …
Increasing Mobility Older people are more mobile than ever before. In particular, they are driving more miles to stay connected …
Dear colleagues These are unprecedented and challenging times for the EU, UK and for us – our research, policy and …
