Did you know that over 9,000 people have taken part in the Arts Council’s Arts and Older People programme? More information on the programme, as well as case studies of individual projects, are available on the Arts Council website. The case studies were used to evidence, anecdotally, the impact of arts participation on alleviating isolation […]
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U3A Foyle hosted an Age Encounters event on 1 June, which will focus on combatting loneliness in older age. For more information, click here.
Read Gemma Carney’s new article on dementia, politics and science. This blog was published on QPol (Queen’s University Belfast), on 22 April 2016. Click here for more information.
Dominic Campbell (our Visiting Fellow) will facilitate this interactive workshop on 13 May 2016, which will take place in The Playhouse, Derry/Londonderry. Click here for more information.
Did you know that in 2013/14, 16% of adults above the State Pension Age in Northern Ireland were in relative poverty after housing costs? This is two percentage points higher than in the United Kingdom as a whole (14%). Further information is available within A profile of older people in Northern Ireland – Annual Update (2015) […]
This interactive workshop was part of the Imagine Belfast festival on 16 March 2016. For more information, click here.
Did you know that the 2013 Northern Ireland Life and Times survey asked respondents if they thought that doctors should be allowed by law to end the life of a patient with a painful incurable disease, if the patient requests it? Six out of ten respondents (63%) thought that this should definitely or probably be […]
Ageing, by Paula Devine, is one of a series of downloadable tutorials which are designed for use in school years 11 and above (for pupils aged 14 years or over). Three teaching datasets have been created based on the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey. These are designed to be used on undergraduate and postgraduate […]
Did you know that the 2013/14 Health Survey for Northern Ireland suggests that 1 in 10 men aged 75 years or over drink more than the recommended weekly limit (which was 21 units in 2013/14). For more information, see the recent report Drink Wise, Age Well: Alcohol Use and the Over 50s in the UK […]
BSGNI held a lively event on 10 June 2016 called ‘Growing Older: the role of community and gardening in ageing well’. For more information, click here.
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