'Facing up to frailty: health chare challenges and opportunities in an ageing population'

Organised by: Manchester Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Research on Ageing (MICRA)

A Lecture for the Public by Ken Rockwood
Professor of Geriatric Medicine at Dalhousie University, Canada

Venue: Lecture Theatre B, University Place, University of Manchester,
Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL

This will be a thought provoking talk addressing some of the issues surrounding the topic – there will be opportunities to network, share knowledge and expertise.

About Ken Rockwood
Ken Rockwood is Professor of Geriatric Medicine at Dalhousie University, a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Investigator and an active staff physician in the Department of Medicine at Capital Health, Halifax.  He has a longstanding interest in dementia. He is also a leading authority on frailty, focusing his investigations on the complexity of frailty. He has published six books and more than 250 peer-reviewed scientific publications.

About Manchester Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Research on Ageing (MICRA). MICRA is a University of Manchester wide initiative working in collaboration with external agencies such as Manchester City Council. It is designed to promote interdisciplinary and innovative research on all aspects of ageing. MICRA works with academics from social sciences, medicine, life sciences, epidemiology, neuroscience, psychiatry etc along with policy makers from the public sector.   MICRA has six broad, overlapping working groups:

·    Health and social inequalities
·    Work and retirement
·    Frailty
·    Mental health and wellbeing
·    Musculoskeletal health
·    Genetics and biology of ageing

MICRA operates to enhance the potential for the University of Manchester to contribute to and lead the research and policy agendas in this area. 

About the Institute of Health Sciences – www.manchester.ac.uk/ihs  The Institute of Health Sciences (IHS) is a networked organisation that brings together health science groups within the University of Manchester and our local partner NHS Trusts – primary care, acute, mental health and NHS North West.  We support interdisciplinary networks, promote new alliances, support strategic developments and promote the prestige of the health sciences community in Greater Manchester and the NW, helping improve health care practice through high quality research in the health sciences.

Who should attend? Anyone with an interest in healthcare issues in ageing population such lay public, voluntary groups, council, NHS and social care policy makers as well as academics from all disciplines across the University of Manchester.  If you’d like to join MICRA please get in touch with the IHS team.

TO CONFIRM your attendance at this FREE lecture contact:
Jane Mann, Institute of Health Sciences Secretary, University of Manchester, jane.mann@manchester.ac.uk This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Tel: 0161 306 7900