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Male dominated workforces, such as in the haulage and logistics sectors, could be hardest hit by the effects of poor mental health, according to experts from The University of Manchester's Alliance Manchester Business School (Alliance MBS). Statis...

As part of the nationwide Age of Creativity 2019 festival, Dancing with your Brain took place at Z-arts in Manchester on 29 May. The event was organised by the Body, Eyes and Movement (BEAM) lab, The University of Manchester, in collaboration ...

Over the past two years, Manchester has been leading an EU wide programme to investigate aspects of concurrent hearing, vision and cognitive impairment in older people. On 5 April we hosted an extremely successful engagement event on this topic for p...

Those researching dementia now recognize that our best chance of beating this condition is to identify it early and intervene before significant brain damage occurs. One way to achieve this is to identify people who may be at risk of developing Alzhe...

An evaluation of the ageing population will be up for discussion at a special event hosted by the Centre for Ageing Better in Leeds next month. The meeting will give researchers the opportunity to help shape the commissioning process and hear abou...

MICRA collaborates with the Morgan Centre for the Study of Everyday Lives A workshop bringing together early career researchers and staff from the Morgan Centre for the Study of Everyday Lives with members of Manchester Institute for Collaborative...

The ESRC/NIHR neighbourhoods and dementia study was co-ordinated by The University of Manchester and aimed to explore how people living with dementia understood and interacted with the people, spaces and places in their everyday lives. The study w...

Precarious employment and pension planning studentship offered by MICRA and NEST. Studentship: 3 year, full time, fully funded PhD studentship Award: £20,009 pa tax free stipend, plus full fees (EU/Home rates) and a training grant of £750 pa ...

A study of the differences between healthy brains and those with Alzheimer’s Disease has produced largest dataset of its type ever. ...

A project co-developed between The University of Manchester and GMMH foundation trust, is looking at how technology can be used in early identification of cognitive decline in Dementia and Mild Cognitive impairment (MCI). They are running a half day ...

The World Health Organisation report aims to provide a global overview of the progress that cities and communities have made over the last decade towards becoming more age-friendly and features case studies which were prepared by a team led by Tine B...

Dr Sheena Johnson, Senior Lecturer in Organisational Psychology at The University of Manchester has had two publications accepted by The Journal of Vocational behaviour. Both papers examine the concept of “Career Plateau”. “That's not what I signe...

MICRA is delighted to congratulate our PhD Researcher, Hayley James on winning the award for the UoM Sociology Public Engagement Prize (PhD). Hayley was awarded this prize for her sterling work engaging policymakers, think tanks and industry with ...

Over 30 million people worldwide suffer from Alzheimer’s disease and unfortunately, this figure will rise as longevity increases, so the need for effective treatments is extremely urgent. Current treatments, at best, alleviate symptoms but do not ...

October saw a historic week in the United Kingdom, with, for the first time in history, men and women reaching state pension age at the same time – at age 65. But as many commentators have pointed out this week, equality of outcomes between men and w...

The Mirror writes about findings from the Office for National Statistics on the rising population. Of specific concern is a rising ageing population. It reports that by the year 2041 there could be an additional 8.6 million Britons aged 65 and ove...

MICRA's Professor Chris Phillipson and Hallsworth Visiting Professor Amanda Grenier contribute to a new report from the Hastings Center. The Hastings Center have released a report featuring 16 essays by leading scholars examining how bioethics can...

‘Self-harm not just a problem in young people’ People over 65 who harm themselves are more likely to die by suicide than other age groups according to new research published in the Lancet Psychiatry by University of Manchester and Keele University...

Professor Chris Phillipson and research at MICRA features in an article in the Guardian newspaper highlighting issues relating to age-friendly cities. The article summarises the range of initiatives underway in what is a priority area within publi...

Worrying new figures from the Office for National Statistics, for 2015-17, show that our life expectancy in the UK has stopped improving for the first time since 1982 – and in certain parts of the UK, life expectancy has even decreased. Both BBC N...

Being overweight or obese may put adults with diabetes at greater risk of dying from cancer than their diabetes-free counterparts, particularly for obesity-related cancers such as those arising from the bowel, kidney, and pancreas in men and women, a...

UoM Professor Martie van Tongeren featured in articles by the Guardian and the South China Morning Post examining the recent study published in medical journal BMJ Open on the links between air pollution and dementia. The longitudinal study, led b...

MICRA hosted Dr Alison Armstrong from The Whiteley Foundation for Ageing Well for a lunchtime seminar on 5 September 2018. Alison presented a fascinating insight into Whiteley Village, a retirement community of 500 that provides housing and care f...

An article in The Economist reports on how our research has shown that the way people walk can be used for ID and health checks. Dr Patricia Scully, of the School of Physics, and Prof Krikor Ozanyan, of the School of Electrical and Electronic Engi...

Dr Ricardo Twumasi of the Alliance Manchester Business School has co-authored two recently published health intervention papers related to the ageing workforce in the journal Ergonomics These were part of a physical activity intervention called Wa...

Latest research from MICRA and The Pensions Policy Institute (PPI) considers workplace pension participation amongst threshold adults aged 25-39 years old and suggests it is limited by a defensive focus on establishing themselves in adulthood. Thr...

MICRA PhD Researcher, Hayley James, was recently featured in the Elder Interview regarding her research on individual pension decisions. The interview, entitled To Save, or Not to Save: The Question of Prioritising Pensions and Provision for Later...

On 16 March, it was announced that Greater Manchester had gained World Health Organisation status to become the UK's first age-friendly city region. This means we are a place committed to enabling older people to actively participate in their comm...

Scottish Widows remark on how the concept of retirement has been taking a new shape in the UK. Their recently published article is particularly interested in the concept of unretirement. Around one in four retirees in the UK return to work or ‘...

For the second year in a row a University of Manchester student has won the Stirling prize for the best student poster at the BSG Annual Conference. The prestigious and coveted Stirling Prize was scooped by Ema Johnson last year for her poster on ...