BSG/SPARC Workshop New Technologies for Support and Care
06 September 2007
BSG/SPARC Workshop New Technologies for Support and Care
Hosted by:
Event organisers:
Professor Gail Mountain, Sheffield Hallam University
Professor Tony Warnes, Sheffield University
Professor Murna Downs, Bradford University
Professor Peter Lansley, Director, SPARC
Date: 06 September 2007
Venue:
Sheffield Hallam University
Central Sheffield campus
The Annual Conference of The British Society of Gerontology is from the 6-8th September 2007, and the date of the workshop is 7th September between 3pm and 4.30pm
This is a special workshop, one in a series to be organised by a variety of organisations and SPARC. This workshop has the specific focus of New Technologies and Support and Care
Today's older people are characterised by higher health and quality of life aspirations and greater wealth, incomes and purchasing power than in the past. They are developing new roles, seek active lives, and demand good health care and, if required, personal support and services. This symposium will examine the potential of assistive technologies and telecare, i.e. products and systems that enable and support older people for raising older people's functioning, social and community participation and quality of life. It will also examine the considerable professional and ethical problems associated with their more widespread use.
The British Society of Gerontology aims to promote the understanding of human ageing and later life through research and communication. It seeks to foster the application of this knowledge to the improvement of the quality of life in old age. Its main activities are concerned with promoting the exchange of ideas and information. An important element is the programme of meetings, which as well as providing venues for informal discussion and formal presentations, create opportunities for members to publish and disseminate their work. The Society is also increasing its activity in the promotion of research. The BSG was established in 1971 to provide a multidisciplinary forum for researchers and other interested members in the field of ageing. Until 1979 it was known as the British Society of Social and Behavioural Gerontology. The Society was elected as a member of the International Association of Gerontology in 1987 and is affiliated to many other organisations in the UK and abroad. Members have varied backgrounds. Anyone with a research interest in Gerontology is made most welcome. Indeed one of the returns from participation in our meetings and activities is the contacts these bring with a diverse group of teachers, researchers and practitioners in gerontology and gerontological issues. BSG conferences bring together a rich variety of perspectives. The annual residential conference is a major event. It usually takes place over a weekend in September, and moves to a different location each year. Successive conferences have developed more elaborate formats, and aim to meet the diverse interests of the members. There are normally plenary sessions, with distinguished overseas speakers now a regular feature, and a choice of concurrent paper sessions or workshops. Increasingly the conference activities involve older people's organisations, and there is a well-established social and visits programme. Members of the Society are normally entitled to concessionary registration fees at BSG conferences.
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.
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 including education.
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