WestFocus on Ageing: Maintaining Independence in Later Life
24 February 2005
WestFocus on Ageing: Maintaining Independence in Later Life
Hosted by: The Brunel Institute for Bioengineering
Sponsored by: WestFocus
Event organisers:
Eleanor van den Heuvel, BIB
Felicity Jowitt, BIB
Margaret Pearce BIB
Ms Verity Smith, SPARC/EQUAL Coordinator
Date: 24 February 2005
Venue:
Brunel University
Darwin Room
The Refectory Brunel University
Uxbridge
Middlesex
UB8 3PH
United Kingdom
This is a special workshop, the first in a series to be organised in 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 the needs of older people and will support WestFocus in its mission to bring together Universities in the West of London.
SPARC (Strategic Promotion of Ageing Research Capacity) is a new initiative funded by EPSRC and BBSRC which has been established 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 over the next three years SPARC will provide up to 30 pump-priming awards to newcomers to ageing research in the fields of design, engineering and biology. Details of the awards will be presented during the workshop.
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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