New Ageing Populations challenge our understanding of the boundaries of old age by extending issues conventionally associated with gerontology to wider groups of people. Our aim in these seminars is to widen the debates surrounding the interconnected topics of health, identity, disability and ageing as they impact on new ageing populations, particularly focusing on those in mid- to later life. We hope to foster discussion of this important but under-researched group by examining and presenting the issues raised from multiple perspectives and different disciplines. To this end we are calling for abstracts for posters to accompany the second seminar in this series:

New ageing populations: Calamity or Eucatastrophe?

1.30 – 6pm, Thursday 8th July 2010, Brunel University (Session held on last afternoon of British Society of Gerontology conference)

This seminar will seek to create an understanding of how new ageing populations pose both challenges and opportunities to conventional approaches to biomedicine. It will also examine the nature of social positioning, marginalization, and social engagement in shaping identities. Key questions will include: What are the new horizons of new ageing populations? What is the interface between genomics and these emerging populations? What is the potential for new ageing populations and ‘new’ identities?

Abstracts should not be longer than 250 words and emailed to newagepop@kcl.ac.uk by Thursday 24th June.

Those presenting relevant posters at the BSG conference are welcome to submit their poster abstracts.

We will offer a £100 prize for each best poster presentation at seminars 2-6. Please contact newagepop@kcl.ac.uk for more information about these prizes.