NDA: New Dynamics of Ageing

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The New Dynamics of Ageing Programme is a eight year multidisciplinary research initiative with the ultimate aim of improving quality of life of older people. The programme is a unique collaboration between five UK Research Councils - ESRC, EPSRC, BBSRC, MRC and AHRC - and is the largest and most ambitious research programme on ageing ever mounted in the UK. The programme aims to develop practical policy and implementation guidance and novel scientific, technological and design responses to help older people enjoy better quality lives as they age. This requires integrating understandings of the changing meanings, representations and experiences of ageing and the key factors shaping them (including behavioural, biological, clinical, cultural, historical, social, economic and technological), through direct engagement with older people and user organisations. The programme will harness inputs from a wide range of disciplines to reveal the dynamic interplay between ageing individuals and their changing technological, cultural, social and physical environments - local, national and global - and to develop methods and means for overcoming the consequent constraints on the quality of life of older people. A list of 35 Projects can be found in the attachment and overviews of each project can be accessed. A newsletter is available on the programme website

NDA Team Department of Sociological Studies The University of Sheffield Elmfield, Northumberland Road Sheffield, S10 2TU Tel: 0114 222 6467 | Fax: 0114 222 6492

http://www.newdynamics.group.shef.ac.uk/