Contemporaneous advances in preventative and curative medicine, as well as changes in the social contexts in which health interventions are delivered, have enabled many people to live a longer and healthier life than was possible a few decades ago, either by surviving childhood due to these advances, living longer lives due to continuing medical advances changing the course and nature of disease, or living past an earlier ‘failure’ of regulation. There is now a greater realisation that what actually constitutes ‘ageing’ is becoming more difficult to demarcate, whether in terms of physiological ‘normality,’ cultural expectations, or social provision. Changes to the patterning and nature of ‘old age’ therefore raise important questions about our understanding of the contemporary circumstances surrounding ageing for researchers, providers and policy makers alike.

 

The aim of this seminar series is to map the nature of the emergence of rapid recent growth and ageing of populations not normally associated with ‘old age’, widen debates of health, identity, disability and ageing by examining and presenting from multiple perspectives the impact on, and implications of, biomedical science on the rapid growth of new ageing populations, focusing on those in mid- to later life, and present these viewpoints through a number of perspectives, and address the implications that arise from this.

 

 

                              Living by the rules? Growing older after the sexual revolution.*

 

 

Thursday 23rd June 2011, 3.00 - 6pm, University College London (room venue to be confirmed).

 

*This seminar, led by the Institute of Gerontology, King’s College London, is co-hosted with the Division of Research Strategy UCL, University of Surrey and BioCentre.

 

Sex before the sexual revolution

Dr Kate Fisher, Senior Lecturer, Director of Centre of Medical History, University of Exeter.

 

70 years old and HIV positive: Issues for an ageing population of people living with HIV Professor Graham Hart, Head of Research Department, Director of the Centre for Sexual Health & HIV Research, UCL.

 

'An unexpected future' - A personal account of ageing with HIV Maurice Greenham.

 

This seminar is open to all but participants are asked to book a place in advance by emailing newagepop@kcl.ac.uk

 

There will be a wine reception following the seminar.

 

A limited number of travel bursaries are available; please enquire for further details.

 

For more details about the series, visit: www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/geront/news/esrcseminar/programme.html