Old and Active: Maintaining the older person's health, activity and employment
08 February 2007
Old and Active: Maintaining the older person's health, activity and employment
Hosted by: LARCI
Event organisers:
Dr Andrea Turner, LARCI
Mr Steven Buchanan, ESRC
Ms Verity Smith, SPARC Coordinator
Date: 08 February 2007
Venue:
Birmingham Council House
This is a special workshop, one in a series to be organised by SPARC to promote the value of scientific ageing-related research and opportunities for further research. The workshop has been designed to provide a broad representation of recent advances in approaches to improving the quality of life of older people. Ageing research is still not a priority area and the research community is very small.
The workshop will provide encouragement to all those with an interest in enhancing the role which local authorities play in meeting the needs of older people. It will focus especially on activity, mobility, transport and the older worker.
SPARC (Strategic Promotion of Ageing Research Capacity) is funded by EPSRC and BBSRC which was established in 2005 to extend the previous remit of the EQUAL Network. SPARC is designed specifically to provide a platform, publicity and policy representation for existing researchers and to encourage newcomers into ageing research. A key aspect of its activities is working in partnership with the users of research - older people and those organisations which represent the interests of older people and which provide older people and their carers with services, advice and other support. As well as organising workshops SPARC is providing 34 pump-priming awards to newcomers to ageing research in the fields of design, engineering and biology.
LARCI, the Local Authorities Reseach Council Initiative, brings together a significant range of stakeholder organisations in local government and the Research Councils with the specific aim to ensure that local authorities benefit from the latest leading-edge research and that reserachers are made aware of the challenges facing local government.
As well as to local authority employees and elected representatives the workshop will be of interest to a wide range of practitioners and policy makers, health and social care practitioners, industry, charitable and government bodies concerned with the needs of older people, as well as researchers and academics from engineering, biological, social science, medical and health care disciplines. Older people are especially welcome.
There is no charge for attendance just an enthusiasm and interest in extending the quality of life of older people through informed user-focused research and its application.
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