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The Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group (MUARG) has released a report on developing age-friendly cities: turning urban research into practice.  ...

iNews reports that one in five UK adults has experienced economic abuse, according to the charity Refuge, and 60 per cent of them are women. Debora Price, professor of social gerontology and current MICRA director, carried out Behind Closed Doors,...

MICRA at The University of Manchester was well represented at the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics European Region Congress 2019, which took place in Gothenburg, Sweden from 23 – 25 May. From SENSE-Cog, Piers Dawes and Irace...

On 18 June MICRA was pleased to host Professor Sarah Vickerstaff, presenting the 2019 Annual Lecture Extending Working Lives: The implications for winners and losers in the changed UK policy landscape. Sarah is professor of work and employment...

Grey, rainy and chilly: the morning of Thursday 13 June appeared to be an average Mancunian day. However, as many others set off to work under the dismal grey skies, it was anything but an ordinary day for the 100-or-so delegates from across the UK a...

Understanding the relationship between population ageing and urban change has become a major issue for public policy, and an increasingly important area for interdisciplinary research. On the 26 June 2019, an event called ‘Developing age-friendly ...

A new guide to the treatment of pensions on divorce has been published by the Pension Advisory Group (PAG). The long-awaited report brings guidance to family judges, lawyers and pension experts encouraging fairer settlements and helping to manage ...

A major new health research programme, led by researchers from The University of Manchester, has been announced today (11 July 2019) to tackle Greater Manchester’s biggest health challenges, as part of a £135m national investment. ...

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...