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:

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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

Individuals interested in organising SYMPOSIA, special sessions, workshops or thematic panels should submit an outline to the organisers for consideration, following the abstract submission guidance contained within the abstract template, which can be downloaded by clicking here.

To submit your poster, please download the abstract template, complete the form, then email it to Bethan McMullen.

To register for conference attendance, accommodation, meals and optional excursion follow the menu link on the left of this page.

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