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The Move it or Lose it Annual Healthy Ageing Conference
Please join us on Friday 20th September at The Studio in Birmingham for our annual healthy ageing conference.
As always we have a great line-up of leading academics, scientists, experts and influencers sharing tips on how to live well and promote healthy and successful ageing.
This is a fantastic opportunity to ask questions from experts in the field of healthy ageing and enjoy meeting and networking with like-minded people, all working together to reimagine and transform the way we age.
Unlocking the Secrets of Healthy Ageing: Insights from a Leading Health Commentator ‘Haruspex’ reading the runes for 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 practice 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 health and social issues, and provides consultancy to NHS organisations. He is a guest blogger for The King’s Fund Time to Think Differently programme and his eLetter reaches the inboxes of 300,000 health and care managers in the UK and overseas several times a week.
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?
In this talk, Lis will cover the risk factors for falling, what the evidence says about falls prevention, and how we can all take steps to prevent falls.
Dr Lis Boulton is Health and Care Policy Manager, in the Charity Influencing Division at Age UK
Can we halt, or even reverse frailty?
Dr Thomas Jackson is a geriatrician and clinician scientist. He investigates cognitive disorders in general hospital settings (delirium and dementia) and how these affect both long term cognitive outcomes and the link 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, it is projected that 1.5 billion people will be over the age of 65, with the number of people over the age of 85 set to triple. With increasing ageing of populations around the world, frailty is an important and growing global health problem. Reducing frailty in those over the age of 65 by 25% would protect over 75,000 adults in the UK and potentially as many as 87 million older adults worldwide. So how can frailty can be halted and even reversed?
Her research focuses on the interaction between the different cell types that control bone remodelling. Specifically, she is interested in why the communication between these cells is disrupted during inflammation and with increasing age and she is working to identify therapeutics that can restore it.
Her work has been funded by Versus Arthritis (formerly Arthritis Research UK), AstraZeneca, and the Medical Research Council amongst others.
The importance of behaviour change in healthy ageing: a focus on long-term adherence to physical activity
Dr Nikita Rowley is a Researcher at the Centre for Physical Activity, Sport and Exercise Sciences (PASES) at Coventry University.
Nikita has over 15 years’ experience in the health and fitness industry, more specifically in the design, development, implementation and evaluation of exercise and physical activity referral interventions at both local and national level. As well as industry experience, Nikita is an academic with behaviour change expertise, applying behaviour change frameworks to the development of physical activity and exercise interventions, ensuring that they are evidence-based and focus on longer-term adherence to being physically active. Nikita has experience of applying behaviour change theory to the design of exercise referral interventions and home-based exercise programmes for people living with overweight and obesity. With first-hand experience in the fitness industry and an academic perspective of what really works, Nikita will be sharing her insights into the benefits and the importance of focusing on behaviour change, which is the golden thread through any intervention.
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.
Her knowledge and passion for healthy ageing has led to collaborations with the NHS, the Academic Health Science Network, UK Active, Royal Voluntary Service and University of Birmingham’s Centre for Healthy Ageing.
More speakers to be confirmed…
Registration opens at 9:30am and the conference runs from 10am to 4pm, refreshments and lunch are included.
The venue is The Studio, 7 Cannon Street, Birmingham B2 5EP which is a few minutes walk from Grand Central Train Station with several great hotels nearby.
Please note that all conference bookings are non-refundable.
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