C4AR International Conference
‘Ageing: Moving Beyond Boundaries’
05 - 07 September 2012
In seeking to move beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries we invite oral presentations, including papers, posters and symposia, around one or more, or across the following broad themes:
- Promoting active and healthy ageing including such issues as:
- The promotion and impact of a positive lifestyle for healthy ageing
- Planning for healthy older age, including the impact of changing demographics for an ageing workforce
- Education and Involvement in research in later life
- Ageing and environment - here environment is defined in very broad terms that might include:
- The role of environmental factors in normal ageing and age-related disease
- Coping with the effects of climate change and fuel poverty in older age
- Ageing in place and the quality of life of older people in supported housing, institutional and residential care settings
- Domotics and new technologies to support an ageing society
- Mental health, mental wellbeing and ageing including topics such as:
- The causes, diagnosis and treatment of neurodegeneration and dementia
- Cognitive changes during normal ageing including memory, attention, emotion, motor control, problem solving and brain imaging
- Improvements in the care and treatment of older people with dementia or mild cognitive impairments
- Mental health in old age, including depression, emotional wellbeing and addiction
- Understanding the biology of the ageing process:
- The molecular basis of normal ageing and diseases of ageing.
- Lifespan, healthspan and biomarkers of each.
- Study of ageing in model organisms
- Interventions to minimise the effects of ageing
- Policy, practice and ethics, including such topics as:
- Meeting the needs of an ageing society: National and global policy contexts
- Ethics and ageing - social, medical and biomedical perspectives
- Health, care and practice - national and comparative perspectives
Contacts and queries to:
- Academic:
- Dr Sue Broughton C4AR, Division of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University.
s.j.broughton@lancaster.ac.uk
- Administrative:
- Bethan McMullen A71 Physics Building, Lancaster University, LA1 4YD
Tel. 01524 (5)93169 Fax. 01524 (5)92658
Email. b.mcmullen@lancaster.ac.uk