Mobility, Mood and Place is delighted to announce an international conference on Habitats for Happy and Healthy Ageing.
The conference will take place in Edinburgh on 11th – 14th October 2016.
This is the first announcement of the call for presentation and poster abstracts.
The call, and details of online submission, will be forthcoming in January 2016.
The conference themes are:
Theme 1: Healthy, happy and active ageing
How can we realise healthy, happy and active ageing for all?
We invite abstracts that consider diverse factors including exercise, nutrition, service provision, assistive technologies and adaptations, income and benefits, social isolation and participation.
Theme 2: Co-designing the built environment with mobility in mind
What makes an environment age-friendly? How can we better involve user groups in the design of our built environment to enhance mobility?
We invite abstracts on the physical design of age-friendly environments that support mobility at a range of scales, from individual homes to the neighbourhood and the wider community, as well as on innovative methods of co-design, particularly those engaging older adults.
Theme 3: Experiencing mobility
What does mobility mean for older adults? How is it experienced and perceived?
We invite abstracts on various aspects of ageing and mobility including mobility behaviours and practices, aids and barriers to mobility, what motivates mobility, and older people’s experiences and perceptions of outdoor mobility.
Theme 4: Health, mobility and place through the lifecourse
Does an individual’s place of birth, and the places in which they have lived, influence their health and mobility in later life? What might the introduction of a lifecourse perspective bring to our understanding of the relationship between health and place?
We invite abstracts on the relationship between health and place as conceived through a lifecourse perspective. This could be through the use of historical environmental data, or other approaches.
We are delighted to confirm the following keynote speakers:
- Professor Billie Giles-Corti, Director, McCaughey VicHealth Community Wellbeing Unit Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
- Professor Gloria Gutman, Vice-President, International Longevity Centre Canada and Professor/Director Emerita, Simon Fraser University Gerontology Research Centre
- Professor Richard Sennett, Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University
(Richard Sennett has now sadly had to withdraw) - Professor Sarah Wigglesworth, Director, Sarah Wigglesworth Architects and Professor of Architecture, University of Sheffield
The Welcome Address will be given by Dr Heidrun Mollenkopf, Vice President of AGE Platform Europe and Member of the AGE Universal Accessibility and Independent Living Expert Group.
To register your interest and receive future conference announcements, please email OPENspace@ed.ac.uk
The conference is the fourth in the international Open Space : People Space (OSPS) series. Previous OSPS conferences have taken place in Edinburgh in 2004, 2007 and 2011.
