Please join us on Friday 20th September at The Studio in Birmingham for our annual conference supporting healthy ageing. 

Join us as top academics, scientists, experts, and influencers share advice on living well and promoting healthy ageing.

This is a great chance to ask experts about healthy ageing and meet others who are also interested in reimagining how we age. It’s a wonderful opportunity to network and learn from like-minded individuals.

This health and wellbeing event will explore the healthy ageing challenge. How we can improve quality of life, and social connection and empower people to stay independent.

Move it or Lose it Healthy Ageing Conference speakers:

Unlocking the Secrets of Healthy Ageing: The future of healthcare – Roy Lilley 

Roy Lilley is the Founder of the Academy of Fabulous Stuff, the only free-to-access repository of best practices in the NHS. He has been voted the top speaker on NHS topics on three occasions and has vast experience in Britain’s health and social care system.

Roy is an independent health policy analyst, writer, broadcaster and commentator on public health and social issues. He provides consultancy to NHS organisations and is a guest blogger for The King’s Fund Time to Think Differently programme.

He says; ‘Healthcare is my interest, my challenge, my passion and I am lucky to be involved with the professionals who make our lives healthier, our families safer and each of us proud of what we do.’ 

 

Falling is not inevitable, but what can we do about it? – Dr Lis Boulton

Lis will talk about why people fall, how to prevent falls, and what we can do to avoid falling.

Dr Lis Boulton is Health and Care Policy Manager, in the Charity Influencing Division at Age UK

She has worked for 13 years as a researcher at the University of Manchester in the Healthy Ageing Research Group. She has written extensively on preventing falls and staying active as we age. She has also focused on frailty, end of life care, and using technology to access services.

She has written about providing support for individuals who feel lonely and isolated. Lis’s current research is with older refugee women seeking asylum in the UK. She is also Co-Chair of the National Falls Prevention Coordination Group.

 

 

Lis is passionate about helping older women with their health. She leads Age UK’s work on menopause in the workplace as Chair of the Menopause Champions group. Lis also leads Age UK’s research into the health and care needs of older women in the UK.

 

 

 

Can we halt, or even reverse frailty? – Dr Thomas Jackson

Dr Thomas Jackson is a geriatrician and clinician scientist. He researches cognitive disorders such as delirium and dementia in hospitals. He examines how these disorders affect long-term cognitive health. He also studies their relationship with the ageing immune system. 

He works in the Immunity and Ageing research group within the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing at University of Birmingham. Dr Jackson has recently been awarded a multi-million-pound contract to research the responses of older people undergoing a stressful health event.

By 2050, 1.5 billion people will be over 65 years old, and the number of people over 85 will triple. With increasing ageing of populations around the world, frailty is an important and growing global health problem.

If frailty in people over 65 decreased by 25%, it could benefit 75,000 adults in the UK. This improvement could also help up to 87 million older adults globally. So how can we halt and even reverse frailty?

 

 

Building Stronger Bones: Advances in Ageing and Bone Health Research – Dr Amy Naylor & Kathryn Frost

Dr Amy Naylor is an Associate Professor at the University of Birmingham

Her research focuses on the interaction between the different cell types that control bone remodelling. She wants to understand why communication between cells is disrupted during inflammation and ageing. She is looking for treatments to fix this problem.

Her work has been funded by Versus Arthritis (formerly Arthritis Research UK), AstraZeneca, and the Medical Research Council amongst others. 

 

Kathryn Frost is a final-year PhD student at the University of Birmingham

Her PhD research has demonstrated that a small, naturally produced protein is capable of increasing the rate at which new bone forms and could form the basis for a new osteoporosis medicine.

 

 

The importance of behaviour change in healthy ageing: a focus on long-term adherence to physical activity – Dr Nikita Rowley

Dr Nikita Rowley is a Researcher at the Centre for Physical Activity, Sport and Exercise Sciences (PASES) at Coventry University.

 

Nikita has 15+ years of experience in the health and fitness industry. She specialises in creating, implementing, and evaluating exercise programs at local and national levels. Nikita is both an industry professional and an academic specialising in behavior change.

Nikita is an expert in behavior change in both industry and academia. She creates physical activity programmes using evidence-based behavior change frameworks. These programs are designed to promote long-term commitment to staying active.

Nikita has used behavior change theory to create exercise programmes for people who are overweight and with obesity. Nikita has experience in the fitness industry and an academic background. She will share her insights on the importance of behavior change in achieving fitness goals.

 

 

From Idea to Action: How Move it or Lose it is Shaping the Future of Healthy Ageing – Julie Robinson

Julie Robinson is an award-winning entrepreneur, fitness expert, published author and founder of Move it or Lose it.

 

She works with organisations like the NHS, UK Active, and the University of Birmingham to promote healthy aging.

 

Registration opens at 9:30am, and the conference runs from 10am to 4pm, including refreshments and lunch.

The Healthy Ageing Conference  will be held at The Studio, 7 Cannon Street, Birmingham B2 5EP. It is just a short walk from Grand Central Train Station and there are many hotels nearby.

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