Secrets of successful ageing

FREE PUBLIC LECTURE

Thursday 10 March
Secrets of successful ageing

Is there any such thing as successful ageing? Ageing is generally considered a process which converts healthy adults into frail ones with diminished reserves in most of our body systems and an increasing susceptibility to diseases and to death.

Ageing is a mystery in the sense that cancer, hereditary development and infection were once mysteries.

However, there have been huge recent advances in understanding of some of the fundamental determinants of ageing.

These provide real possibilities not only for our increased lifespan, but also for an increased healthy lifespan.

Over the past century there have been truly remarkable changes in the numbers and characteristics of older people throughout the world. The growth of the older population has occurred because a general increase in overall population size and a major decline in several of the leading causes of death. Because the increase in survival has been accompanied by a decline in birth-rate the proportion of the population over 65 years of age has increased dramatically and will continue to do so over the next 50 years. These demographic transformations have an enormous effect on society that reverberates well beyond the increased care needs associated with older people.

This lecture will discuss the reasons behind this age related demographic shift, recent advances in our knowledge of the ageing process and what determines poor health in ageing and frailty, and the current state of the art in preventing age related frailty.

Professor Rose Anne Kenny is head of the Department of Geriatric medicine in the University of Newcastle and has a long standing reputation in research in age related diseases, particularly heart disease, gait and mobility problems and stroke disease.

Unless otherwise noted, lectures start at 5.30, last one hour and take place in the Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, which sits directly across the road from Haymarket Metro Station. All lectures are free and the public are encouraged to attend. In the event of an over-capacity audience we provide audio-relay to a second lecture theatre.

Speaker(s):	Professor Rose Anne Kenny | talks | www
Date and Time:	10 March 2005 at 5:30 pm
Duration:	1 hour
Venue:	Insights - Lectures for the Public The University of Newcastle Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU 0191 222 6136 http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press.office/lectures More at Insights - Lectures for the Public...
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Additional Information:	The venue, Newcastle University, Curtis Auditorium is in the Herschel Building, opposite Haymarket Metro station, Newcastle upon Tyne.

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