Turn the lens and immerse yourself in the cultural kaleidoscope💐✨Experience a dazzling array of shows that explore history, archaeology, language, love, and identity. Each show offers a unique perspective on how culture shapes our world and thought. More coming soon👀 #fringe

The deadline for applications for this PhD scholarship and graduate teaching assistant position exploring how humans innovate is also coming up this Wednesday (10th July). 📝📝📝

Healthy ageing is an opportunity, we should stop framing it as a problem, from Heriot-Watt University and The Times and The Sunday Times/The Times and The Sunday Times Scotland hw.ac.uk/news/2024/heal…

Amazing work by my dear friend and Joanna at Brain Health Scotland explaining how social connections can help us keep our brains sharp. Go and have a wee look!

Health tech can help reframe ageing as an opportunity not a problem, in Digital Health from Heriot-Watt University and Age Scotland digitalhealth.net/2024/07/health…

Our latest preprint reporting on focus groups I held with our participants on the topic of continued engagement in leisure activities. Some interestiing factors being mentioned, including the covid pandemic.

Are you coming to Edinburgh to experience the festivals in the days and weeks ahead, including Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh International Book Festival and Edinburgh International Film Festival? Our good friends Luminate Scotland have created a list of events exploring or related to ageing. Check it out luminatescotland.org/creative-agein…

My second go at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe approaches. Tickets available at the link below. I'll be on stage with the hilarious Susan Morrison as part of the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas series where academics share their insights into the quirks of science, existence, and the human condition. Join me as I ask

Great to see this new interactive webpage from Brain Health Scotland on social contact and brain health, released yesterday for #InternationalFriendshipDay. Shaimaa Elhag from our team was delighted for the opportunity to develop content with Joanna Crispell brainhealth.scot/stayconnected

It's today. 27 authors worked hard. We hope you like it, and it has impact on individuals, policy makers, clinicians, and researchers. The Lancet 2024 commission on dementia prevention, intervention, and care. Helen Frankish Naaheed Mukadam Andrew Sommerlad Lon S. Schneider, MD et al.

Our PhD student Ryan Gray is exploring musical experience and thinking skills Heriot-Watt University. By registering with Join Dementia Research, a platform supporting dementia and brain health research, over 3000 people took part! You can sign up Join Dementia Research too news.joindementiaresearch.nihr.ac.uk/ryan-gray-how-…

Shameless 'I love working with my supervisor' moment 😁 If you haven't yet, go have a read of our preprint exploring factors affecting older people's engagement in leisure activities!

Latest paper accepted in Ageing Research Reviews: Understanding exogenous factors and biological mechanisms for cognitive frailty: a multidisciplinary scoping review by Carol Holland, N Dravecz, Lauren Owens, A Benedetto, Iru, Alan J Gow & S Broughton...coming soon

Carol Holland Lauren Owens Iru Alan J Gow This scoping review is the latest output from the Cognitive Frailty Network, funded by Medical Research Council and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research as part of UK Research and Innovation UKAN (UK Ageing Network). Final version online soon with preprint available medRxiv medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

We are excited to announce that our scoping review on the exogenous factors and biological mechanisms for cognitive frailty has been accepted for publication at Ageing Research Reviews! 🎉Currently the article is available in pre-print at: medrxiv.org/content/10.110… UKAN (UK Ageing Network)

Great overview of Generation for Generation by Louise Brown Nicholls for Generations Working Together's research network meeting. Older adult volunteers supported numeracy/literacy skills in primary schools. Results in progress but review of intergenerational engagement here sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Enjoyed speaking to Generations Working Together research network today with Alan J Gow! Great input, feedback and Qs from attendees 🥰

Our latest preprint is now online! We carried out a systenatic review to help understand what people know about brain health. We included both peer-reviewed and grey literature in our review. Well worth a read 😀

We are excited to share that our multidisciplinary scoping review on the exogenous factors and biological mechanism of cognitive frailty is available online at Ageing Research reviews! It's free to read online within 24 hours: doi.org/10.1016/j.arr.… UKAN (UK Ageing Network) UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge

Online now in Elsevier Ageing Research Reviews: “Understanding exogenous factors & biological mechanisms for cognitive frailty: a multidis. scoping review” by Carol Holland, Dravecz, @laurenowens97, Benedetto, Iru, Alan J Gow & Broughton doi.org/10.1016/j.arr.…