Category: Ageing
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Framing Ageing
Dr Gemma Carney looks at how research on ageing has evolved into a vibrant, multi-disciplinary field that aims to support our ageing population.
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Human rights, age discrimination and a global pandemic
Not long before the end of his life, renowned gerontologist Peter Townsend published an article calling for the adoption of human rights for the protection of vulnerable older people, a call that seems particularly prescient to the current pandemic says Gemma Carney and Paul Nash from the University of Southern California.
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Imagining their Future Selves
Drs Katrina Lloyd, Paula Devine and Gemma Carney look at children’s attitudes to older people and their expectations of life at age 70.
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Very pleased to meet you, NICOLA: understanding ageing in Northern Ireland
Dr Paula Devine looks at the key findings from the Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing (NICOLA), which is based in the Centre for Public Health in Queen’s.
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Grandparents’ experiences of kinship care – repair and rescue, rather than pleasure and leisure
Dr Gemma Carney and Dr Paula Devine look at the concept of kinship care – where children are cared for by relatives and how more and more grandparents are taking on the role of replacement parent with all the accompanying responsibilities.
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What will all the ‘stuff’ you own mean when you’re older?
Dr Gemma Carney looks at the cultural value in the objects we possess and what they say about us and the times we live in.
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Don’t Blame the Boomers for Brexit – learn from them: Vote!
Dr Gemma Carney examines how the politics of fear – that has become endemic to public debate – is responsible for the surge in disgust towards baby boomers in the Brexit fallout.
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Dementia: Politics and science must work hand in hand to remove the fear
Following the release this week of a Cambridge University study on public health, Dr Gemma Carney looks at the findings in terms of the dementia debate and argues that the science of ageing is politics by other means.
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People in their nineties reveal the secrets to ageing well
Who better to ask about the secret of ageing well than those who have reached 90! Professor Emeritus Irene Maeve Rea, Professor Ken Mills and Jennifer Rea reveal the findings of the BELFAST nonagenarians’ study and what the participants feel have been the main factors in their longevity.
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Dementia: look closer
Dr Paula Devine and Elizabeth Byrne McCullough explore what the Northern Ireland Life and Times survey tells up about public knowledge of, and attitudes towards dementia.