Newcastle University

Welcome to the Institute for Ageing and Health

The Institute for Ageing and Health (IAH) brings together basic, clinical, social and computer scientists, engineers, and researchers in a variety of other fields, to address the increasingly important issues of:

• how and why we age
• the treatment of associated disease and disability
• the support of through-life health, wellbeing and independence

We have progressed from a new institute in 1994, to a unique, multidisciplinary environment for:

• research
• training
• engagement with public
• business

based on the rapidly developing Campus for Ageing and Vitality.

We place great importance on our involvement locally, nationally and internationally through initiatives such as:

• Changing Age (Newcastle University 'challenge theme' for 2009/10)
• Voicenorth
• Newcastle Science City
• N8 Research Partnership
• House of Lords Science and Technology Committee
• Government Office for Science ‘Foresight’
• Age Action