Two international experts are coming to the BOPDHB to share with us their latest research on the impact of ageing and how to empower populations to age well!
Tuesday ,11th December 2018 11:00pm – 2:00pm (refreshments included) Venue: The Yacht Club, 90 Keith Allen Drive, Tauranga, 3110
Prof Carol Jagger is the AXA Chair in Epidemiology of Ageing in the Institute of Health and Society and am Deputy Director of the Newcastle University Institute for Ageing (NUIA). Carol also has an Honorary Visiting Fellowship at the Department of Public Health and Primary care, University of Cambridge. She is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (by distinction), Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (C.Stat) and Chartered Scientist (CSci), Honorary Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and Member of the British Geriatrics Society. Areas of expertise: Her research programme spans demography and epidemiology with a focus on mental and physical functioning in ageing and she is the leading UK researcher on healthy life expectancy. Her recent research on past and future trends in multi-morbidity and care needs is informing current debates on social care. Prof Ngaire Kerse is recognised as an international expert in three interrelated areas of research: maximising health for older people; falls and older people; and the impact of physical activity on development of disability. She is a Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice. Her Fellowship in 2002-2003 explored, from the perspective of older people and their families, the extent to which cultural differences related to health and health care beliefs affected care delivery in residential care settings. Ngaire was awarded a Distinguished Fellowship of the Royal New Zealand College of GPs in 2011. Since 2010, Ngaire has been co-principal investigator with Dr Lorna Dyall (Principal investigator - Māori) of a longitudinal study of Māori and non-Māori New Zealanders entitled 'Life and Living in Advanced Age: a Cohort Study (LiLACS NZ)
Places will go fast, please email AHQA@bopdhb.govt.nz to confirm attendance by Friday, 7th December