Reflecting on BSG2024 - what a wonderful conference jam packed with networking and new learning! So great to have colleagues from India, South Africa and Brazil join us at Newcastle University for the flagship symposium and to launch Journal of Global Ageing 🌍 BSG_Global_South_SIG

📣 NEW REPORT ALERT 📣 The Family Caregiving Programme has published our 3rd report on older persons and community care: The Older Persons and Community Care Report in Botswana 🇧🇼 To view the full report visit: doi.org/10.25375/uct.2…

I look forward to contributing to this important theme at the #APRC2024 in Bali this September! BSG_Global_South_SIG

fresh off the press: I explore consumption as a cultural force both expanding and disciplining older lives, subjectivities and social relationships bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/… Bristol Uni Press BSG_Global_South_SIG

This’ll be good - looking forward to reading it.

REGISTER! Join us for a webinar to discuss how adaptive and shock-responsive #SocialProtection can better address the rights and needs of #olderpeople affected by widespread crises. 📅 1 August, 12.00-13.15 UTC 👉 Register: ow.ly/nWa150SFZI9 📊 ow.ly/z9jp50SFZI8

10 research gap types and how to bridge them

It was a tough decision on which 3 papers to choose. All the articles in our first issue are so good. But I am grateful for the support from Policy Press to extend open access on these 3 great papers until the end of October

📢 Struggles over elder care in South Africa authored by Prof Elena Moore and Dr Gabrielle Kelly in #DevelopmentSouthernAfrica.📢 In this paper we examine the tensions and struggles over #ElderCare between family #caregivers, care workers and the state. 🔗tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Such an honor to be featured in this brilliant collection of essays on Aging Globally American Ethnologist Thanks for having me on board! #aging #care #digitaltechnologies

I'm super excited to share that my book Calling Family on elder care at a distance has just become open access!! Download your *free* pdf copy here: rutgersuniversitypress.org/calling-family…

Loving the ageing stream at #ESAPorto24! 💓 If you’re presenting a paper on the sociology of ageing consider submitting your final paper to the Journal of #GlobalAgeing buff.ly/45Rrgre !

Let's work aggressively in achieving the ultimate aim. The time is now. #AgeWithRights MENARAH Research on Healthy Ageing HelpAge Deutschland

99% of people worldwide breathe polluted air, making it the biggest environmental health risk of our time. It exacerbates climate change and reduces agricultural production, impacting older people's health, wellbeing and livelihoods #CleanAirNow bit.ly/3xtEehC

Looking for #GerontologyResearch from the Global South? Our Editorial lead Martin Hyde has curated a list of articles focusing on #ageing in the majority world 🌍 (they’re free to access!) buff.ly/3LUOfIs BSG_Global_South_SIG

Thrilled to have opportunity to share findings from our home visit pilot programme in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, at the Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Ageing in Bali today! You can find policy briefing about this here schroeder.butterfill.com/pdf/Home-visit… HelpAge Asia Pacific #aprc2024

Our home visit pilot showed that community volunteers' visits to housebound older people help extend basic healthcare, provide guidance and moral support to family carers and addresses the invisibility of dependence and care. BSG_Global_South_SIG HelpAge Asia Pacific

A new UN Human Rights Convention for Older Persons would change the way people view ageing and ensure a better future for all. Read more from our CEO Alison Marshall in Your Later Life, launching today #YourLaterLife2024 bit.ly/3XimLSp Mediaplanet UKIE

🔥Hot off the press🔥 'A scoping review of reviews on helping professionals’ attitudes toward older adults' by Wenhan Xu & Jia Li doi.org/10.1332/297672… #Ageism #Gerontology #Caring

If you think older persons’ rights need a sound international foundation please sign and share this letter asking the UK Foreign Secretary to support the UN Convention.