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(2012), "ESRC seminar series: opportunities, challenges and tensions: linking the ageing and disability rights agendas 2011-2013", Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, Vol. 13 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/qaoa.2012.55913baa.008
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ESRC seminar series: opportunities, challenges and tensions: linking the ageing and disability rights agendas 2011-2013
Article Type: News and events From: Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, Volume 13, Issue 2
For much of the twentieth century “old people” and “disabled people” were dealt with as distinct and separate groups of “dependent people” by UK Government departments and welfare agencies. Signs of change are now plentiful in today’s demographic, socio-economic and political climate. Current thinking about the overlapping interests between older and disabled people has drawn attention to common needs for dignified supported living arrangements as well as human rights that transcend age boundaries. These overlaps will expand as groups within the disabled community (with physical, sensory and intellectual impairment) survive into their 60s and beyond on the one hand; and as increasing proportions of healthy adults become chronically ill as “deep old age” approaches on the other.
Facilitated by some of the key thinkers, policy-makers and activists in this field, this seminar series aims to open up opportunities for original and innovative debate on key issues for policy and practice in the UK that will have wider resonance for the developed world. It will explore the opportunities, challenges and tensions involved in the formation of closer links between the ageing anti-discrimination and disability rights agendas. In doing so, the series provides space for dialogue and interdisciplinary debate designed to enhance more critical and innovative thinking on disability and ageing research; paying particular attention to other dimensions of social “difference”.
Seminar 5: 27 September 2012, “Research with older and disabled people”. A good evidence base is critical to the development of successful policy and practice. This seminar will focus on differing research techniques and interpreting research for policy agendas/knowledge exchange with older and disabled people.
Seminar 6: 29 January 2013, “Addressing ageism, impairment and disablism” This seminar engages with the shape and form of contemporary ageism, impairment and disabilism, and the challenges for developments and policies designed to address these issues.
Registration and contact details: A&D Seminar Series, Division of Health Research, Bowland Tower East, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YT. Gill Betts or Sarah Edwards will help with further enquiries and information on travel and accommodation via e-mail: aadseminarseries@lancaster.ac.uk or by telephone at: 01524 592127