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Date:

1/18/2012

European Year For Active Ageing 2012 Opening Conference: "Stay active - what does it take?"

Time:

9:00 AM

Location:

Bella centre, Copenhagen, Denmark

This 2-day conference "Stay active - what does it take?" is the opening event for the European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations 2012. The main theme is innovation and how innovation can bring new solutions to the pending challenges of an ageing society in Europe within the fields of employment, social affairs and health.

Date:

1/1/2012

European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations

Time:

8:00 AM

Location:

Across the European Union

The European Commission has designated 2012 as the European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations (EY 2012).

Date:

12/8/2011

Improving the Mental Health and Wellbeing of the Nation

Time:

8:45 AM

Location:

Grand Connaught Rooms, London

This forum entitiled 'Improving the Mental Health and Wellbeing of the Nation', from the inside government team, will examine the new commissioning landscape, explore the link between physical and mental health and understand how to enact the changes to improve public mental health.

Date:

2/1/2012

Long Term Condition 2012

Time:

8:30 AM

Location:

QEll Conference Centre, London

Govnet’s Long-Term Conditions conference is the UK leading national forum for policy developments and practical solutions for improving the lives of people living with chronic conditions and their carers. Join over 350 delegates from across health services and the wider public sector to address the key issues and gain transferable solutions.

Date:

1/19/2012

Personalised Health Care: From Theory to Practice

Time:

8:30 AM

Location:

Royal College of Physicians, London

A conference highlighting developments in personalised health care.

Date:

11/8/2011

Preventing and Reducing the Risk of Harm to Vulnerable Adults

Time:

9:00 AM

Location:

Central London

This important forum about safeguarding vulnerable adults is an opportunity to hear from senior level policy experts on a range of topics, including best practice for partnership approaches, personalisation of adult protection services, effective training for frontline staff and the challenges and opportunities for improving safeguarding outcomes relating to .

Date:

11/9/2011

A Digital Future: Tackling Social Exclusion Through Technology

Time:

8:45 AM

Location:

Central London

From 'Insidegovernment', this important conference will examine the government’s campaign for breaking down the digital divide and promoting digital inclusion for vulnerable groups. You can view further information and register here.

Date:

12/6/2011

Accessing European Funding

Time:

9:45 AM

Location:

Charing Cross Hotel, London

This event sets out a practical approach to sourcing European funding. To find out more, please click here.

Date:

8/31/2011

11th European Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology Conference

Time:

9:00 AM

Location:

Maastricht, the Netherlands

"Everyday technology for Independence and Care".

For further information about this conference, please click here.

Date:

9/29/2010

Promoting the Collaboration of Age Research

Time:

9:30 AM

Location:

Royal College of Physicians, London

This event was the second of UKARF's biennial conferences highlighting the best of UK age research funding by collaborative working of the UKARF member organisations.

The programme reflected the diversity of UKARF membership and supported the UKARF vison to 'promote high quality research that is effectively targeted and monitored, multi-disciplinary when appropriate and closely engaged with potential research users, and that ultimately has a beneficial impact on the quality of life of people as they age'.

The large audience, drawn from academic, goverment, research council, charity and industry sectors as well as representatives of older peoples groups, not only enjoyed the many excellent presenations but also had ample opportunity to network and forge new and valuable contacts.

Feedback from delegates was overwhelmingly positive in respect of organisation of the event, the venue and the programme of speakers. You can see an analysis of feedback here.

Speaker presentations are now available to download:

George Magnus - 'The Age of Ageing'

Andrew Steptoe - 'ELSA'

Professor Blair Smith - 'Engaging with older people to develop; and deliver interventions for the self-management of chronic pain (EPIC)'

Dr Angela McCullagh - 'Getting research into practice with partners: lighting at home for older people'

Jackie Marshall-Cyrus - 'The business of innovating for independent living'

For a copy of the Parkinson's NICE guidelines, please contact Gerda Drutyte

Please contact Alistair Scott on 0207 423 5121 if you have any queries about this event.