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

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