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Healthy ageing conference 2026

Move it or Lose it Annual Healthy Ageing Conference 2026

£150.00
Our Healthy Ageing Conference brings together experts, enthusiasts, and professionals to discuss and learn about ageing. The conference explores how to stay physically and socially active as we grow older to enhance quality of life and promote longevity.

For fitness professionals, health enthusiasts and those working with older adults, the conference offers valuable insights. It provides practical, research-based strategies to promote healthy ageing.

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The Move it or Lose it Annual Healthy Ageing Conference

Please join us on Friday 9th October 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.

Professor Janet Lord CBE – Inside Ageing: The Science That Shapes How We Feel, Move and Live

As a leading researcher in immune ageing, Professor Janet Lord has spent her career exploring how the immune system changes over time — and how this impacts frailty, recovery and long-term health. In this fascinating session, she will explore the links between inflammation, physical function and ageing, and highlight the growing evidence that many aspects of decline are not inevitable, but modifiable through lifestyle.

Professor Derk-Jan Dijk – Sleep, ageing and brain health

This session explores how sleep and body clocks change with ageing, why sleep matters for brain health, mood and daily function, and how exercise can support better sleep. It also highlights simple, realistic strategies older adults can try, alongside key warning signs where medical advice should be encouraged.

 

Dr Lucy Pollock – Ageing well: mindset, meaning and what really matters

Dr Lucy Pollock will explore the practical and emotional realities of later life, including loss, uncertainty and confidence, and encourage a move away from unrealistic “anti-ageing” messages towards living well in the present. The session also introduces some key evidence-based pillars of ageing well – movement, connection, purpose and psychological flexibility – highlighting why doing something consistently matters far more than doing things perfectly.

Dr Nikita Rowley – Beyond the Injection: Supporting Clients on GLP-1s Through Movement, Strength and Behaviour Change

GLP-1 medications are reshaping weight management—but they don’t replace the need for movement, strength, and behaviour change. This session equips exercise professionals with practical tools to safely support clients using GLP-1s, understand side effects, and build sustainable habits that underpin healthy ageing. Attendees will leave with practical strategies to:
  • Safely support clients using GLP-1 medications
  • Understand and respond to common side effects
  • Apply behaviour change techniques in everyday practice
  • Promote sustainable, whole person approaches to healthy ageing

 

Dr Mark Williamson – How To Make Life Happier: The Power of Everyday Wellbeing

Dr Mark Williamson is the co-founder and Director of Action for Happiness and has built this social movement into a thriving community with over 800,000 members. He has worked with hundreds of the world’s leaders in wellbeing – from teachers like the Dalai Lama to scientific experts across fields including psychology, neuroscience and economics. He was previously Director of Innovation at the Carbon Trust and a Senior Manager at Accenture. Mark is the author of Make Life Happier: 23 Practical Ways to Feel Better, Find Meaning and Make a Difference.

 

Julie Robinson – Reimagining ageing: from a single exercise class to national impact

With an ageing population and increasing pressure on health and care systems, the need for effective, scalable solutions has never been greater. In this session, Julie shares how Move it or Lose it has grown into a nationally recognised, evidence-informed programme supporting tens of thousands of older adults each week. Drawing on 16 years of experience, she will explore the role of community-based exercise in improving health, independence and social connection and how we can continue to challenge perceptions of ageing and create lasting change.

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 and non-transferable.

Discounted instructor rate is available to currently licensed Move it or Lose it® instructors only. Licence status will be verified prior to the event.

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