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» 14/04/10 Understanding ageing: Health, wealth and wellbeing at fifty and beyond

14 to 16 April 2010
St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford
For full details visit the conference website at http://www.ageingconf.org/

This international conference will bring together researchers working in the economic, social, psychological and health fields. It will focus on longitudinal data and research that enables us to increase our understanding of how circumstances and factors across the life-course impact on healthy ageing. The aim is also to pinpoint gaps in knowledge and identify priorities for future research.

Britain is in the unique position of housing several cohort and panel studies with detailed information on health, economic and social circumstances. These are now providing a significant data resource for studying outcomes at older ages. The MRC National Survey of Health and Development , the oldest of the British birth cohort studies, is unique in having data from birth to age 60 years on the health and social circumstances of a representative sample of men and women born in England, Scotland or Wales in March 1946, the members of the National Child Development Study (1958 British Birth Cohort Study) reached their 50th birthday in 2008 and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing has been providing longitudinal information on 50+-year-olds since 2002.

Each of these studies, as well as the other birth cohorts and longitudinal studies, available both in Britain and around the world, allow us to build a better understanding of the economic, social, psychological and health elements of the ageing process. Research using such data is essential to inform sound policy that can address the needs of an ageing society.

Keynote speakers

Conference committee

Prof. James Banks, University College London and Institute for Fiscal Studies
Prof. David Blane, Imperial College London
Prof. Jane Elliott, Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education
Prof. Heather Joshi, Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education
Prof. Sir Michael Marmot, University College London
Prof. Robert Michael, University of Chicago
Dr Marcus Richards, MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing
Prof. Johannes Siegrist, University of Dusseldorf

For full details and bookings visit the conference website at http://www.ageingconf.org

Contact details:
Name: Richard Bull
Tel: 020 7612 6804
Fax: 020 7612 6880
email:r.bull@ioe.ac.uk