Professor Fernando Colchero will be speaking on “The evolutionary landscape of primate mortality” in the next instalment of the Living Longer Better Seminar Series hosted by Dr Rob Salguero-Gomez.
Hilary 2021 Seminar Series – Perspectives on Global Ageing Thursday 11 February 2021, 14:00 – 15:00 GMT Care provision in industrialized countries has been commonly considered women’s work. Yet we now see a rapidly emerging group of carers, men who combine parental caregiving with their employment, thereby exposing themselves to the same life-course and health […]
There is something decidedly discriminatory when a certain group of a population is referred to as a burden, with the implicit understanding that the rest of the unburdensome population has to bear this burden. And there is something derisory when a certain group of a population is referred to as boomers, with all the implicit accompaniments of […]
The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee has published a report into healthy ageing, following an in-depth inquiry.
Connecting Cutting Edge Capabilities in Ageing Research and Computational Medicine Thursday 11 February 2021, 13:00 – 16:00 GMT Due to success of modern evidence-based medicine, the aged population in the developed world is rising rapidly, and although more people live longer – a large part of these extra years are spent in poor health. Ageing […]
External event: This event is organized by the Herczeg Institute on Aging at Tel Aviv University in collaboration with the University of Southern Denmark and Oxford University. New Perspectives on Lifespan Inequality Webinar and Open Discussion Thursday, January 21st 202116:00–19:00 Israel Time | 14:00-17:00 GMT | 15:00-18:00 CET | 9:00–12:00 EST
Congratulations to Professor Jennifer Dowd for her ERC Consolidator project which will explore why in this day of high economic development and technological and medical advances, we are seeing stalls and even reversals in life expectancy University of Oxford awarded major European Research Council funding
The two pieces are summaries of papers from a seminar Old age: views from philosophy and social science on Thursday (12/11/20).
To continue the brilliant Living Longer Better online seminar series by Dr Rob Salguero-Gomez we have Professor Sarah Harper CBE on “Achieving Healthy Life Expectancy for all” This seminar will be recorded. The seminar will be via Zoom on Monday 30 November at 11am. Zoom log in details below: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82592166179?pwd=N1pCUFZoZzh2TW45UGUvSHdvV05CUT09 Meeting ID: 825 9216 6179 […]
A commentary by Lynne Cox et al. on ageing, geroprotectors and COVID published in the Lancet Healthy Longevity: Tackling immunosenescence to improve COVID-19 outcomes and vaccine response in older adults – The Lancet Healthy Longevity, Volume 1, ISSUE 2, e55-e57, November 01, 2020