Ageing Health and Society
Ageing, Health and Society is a joint programme of work with the Institute of Health and Society to encourage research into our understandings of ageing and later life from cultural, environmental and social gerontological perspectives. It is both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary across a range of social and behavioural sciences involving joint working nationally and internationally with epidemiologists, basic and clinical scientists, technologists, health and social care professionals, policy makers, older people, NGOs and other end users of research. We do descriptive, explanatory, evaluative and theoretically informed research involving the whole range of methods and study designs.
One focus of our work is around the MRC Cognitive Function and Ageing Study and Newcastle 85+ Study that provide epidemiological and social data about large cohorts of older people. Important themes of our work include cognitive ageing and dementia, the evaluation of treatment and health service interventions, the policy implications of ageing societies, social relations, quality of life and the role of assistive technologies in later life. Developing themes include ageism and attitudes to ageing, late life inequalities, anti-ageing medicine and the role of the built environment.
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Institute for Ageing and Health staff involved:
