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 <description>SPARC is an initiative which brings together researchers, practitioners and policy makers in ageing. It specialises in communicating the latest design, engineering and biological ageing-related research to all stakeholders, making the case about the benefits for an ageing population of scientific research, and it encourages new blood into ageing research.</description>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The&amp;nbsp;second KT-EQUAL monograph based on a recent workshop &lt;span class=&quot;workshop-link&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sparc.ac.uk/media/downloads/executivesummaries/masterclass_monograph.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Research for older people and those with a disability&quot;&gt;Research for older people and those with a disability&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;is now available&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 <title>More KT-EQUAL monographs</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The&amp;nbsp;third KT-EQUAL monograph based on a recent workshop &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sparc.ac.uk/media/downloads/executivesummaries/robots_monograph.pdf&quot; title=&quot;Research for older people and those with a disability&quot;&gt;Robots for rehabilitation&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is now available&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 <title>Twelve years of EQUAL</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Today marks exactly twelve years&amp;nbsp;since funding was agreed for the first projects to be&amp;nbsp;supported by the EQUAL Initiative. This is the&amp;nbsp;longest running of all the research council schemes designed to support ageing and disability research.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 <title>Workshop Full</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Falls Workshop on 18th March 2010 is full. We are still accepting registrations for the waiting list. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 <title>Monographs</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;The first KT-EQUAL monograph based on a recent workshop &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sparc.ac.uk/media/downloads/executivesummaries/assistive_technologies_monograph.pdf&quot; title=&quot;AT monograph&quot;&gt;Assistive Technologies: what is their place in the mainstream market?&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is now available&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 <title>CARDI research breaks the ice</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cardi.ie/?q=news/cardiresearchbreakstheice&quot; title=&quot;CARDI&quot;&gt;CARDI research breaks the ice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; As one of the coldest spells of weather in decades hit Ireland, a research team funded by the Centre for Ageing Research and Development in Ireland (CARDI) was beginning work in Belfast and Dublin.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 <title>Assistive Technologies</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sparc.ac.uk/media/assistive_technologies_monograph.pdf&quot; title=&quot;AT monograph&quot;&gt;Assistive Technologies: what is their place in the mainstream market?&lt;/a&gt; A summary of the KT-EQUAL workshop held in November 2009&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 <title>Cardiovascular Disease</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EPSRC&lt;/strong&gt; is organising a Portfolio Day focussing on &lt;strong&gt;Cardiovascular Disease&lt;/strong&gt; on the 24th &amp;nbsp;February 2010, giving researchers, stakeholders and users an opportunity to influence the direction of future research for EPSRC within this healthcare area. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 <title>Pubic involvement with research</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;A&amp;nbsp;new report launched by INVOLVE about the&lt;br /&gt;impact of patient and public involvement in research.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 <title>100 not out</title>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edward Smith&lt;/strong&gt;, chartered surveyor, Verity Smith&amp;#39;s father, is &lt;strong&gt;100 today&lt;/strong&gt;. Edward was one of the very first supporters of&amp;nbsp;our activities and certainly the oldest. Many Congratulations from all the members of EQUAL, SPARC and KT-EQUAL!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
 <pubDate>Fri, 4 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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