2024 Spring Symposium

Monday 15th April

1200-1315    

Lunch and Registration

1315-1330

Welcome Address

1315-1330

Professor David Grayson CBE, ACRC Advisory Board Member

1330-1500

Ageing in a Time of Crisis

Chair: Professor Christina Boswell, Vice-Principal Research & Enterprise, University of Edinburgh          

1330-1340

Lay Address: The Challenges of Growing Old - My Story! Peter Smith, ACRC PPIE Group Member 

1340-1400

Professor Christina Boswell, Vice-Principal Research and Enterprise, University of Edinburgh

1400-1500

Keynote Speaker: Professor Sir Gregor Smith, Chief Medical Officer for Scotland

1500-1530

Refreshment Break

1530-1700

Ageing in Place: Supporting choices in work and where to live

Chair: Dr Margaret Whoriskey, Head of Innovation for Care and Wellbeing, Digital Health and Care Innovation Centre, ACRC Academy Advisory Board Member

1530-1600

Lead Plenary: Home is where the health is: ageing well in place: Donald Macaskill, CEO, Scottish Care & Chair, ACRC Academy Advisory Board

1600-1615

Enhancing Ageing in Place Through the Use of Unobtrusive Sensing Technologies: Perspectives Gained from PPIE-WP6 Sensor Design Workshop: Dr Imran Saied, Research Associate, University of Edinburgh, ACRC

1615-1630

Dr Andrew Kingston, Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University, ACRC

1630-1645          

“Placing” the voices of care workers aged 50 and over in ecologies of care Professor Linda McKie, Executive Dean, Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy, KCL

1645-1700

‘It’s where I belong’: What does it mean to Age in Place from the perspective of longer-living older people? Dr Kate Gibson, Lecturer, Newcastle University, ACRC

1700-1800

Drinks Reception, Exhibition preview and Pathhead Choir

Tuesday 16th April

0900-1030

Ageing in Place: The importance of communities and neighbourhoods

Chair: Professor Sir Lewis Ritchie, Chair of ACRC Advisory Board

0905-0925

The Scottish Carescape: Enhancing Ageing in Places Big & Small Dr Jacob Sheahan, Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh, ACRC

0925-0945

Multimorbidity and Place: - physical and social neighbourhood features and the development of multiple long-term health conditions Professor Alan Marshall, Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh, ACRC

0945-0950

Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities Professor Alex Mihailidis, CEO, AGE-WELL Canada

0950-1005

Fireside Chat: Professor Catharine Ward-Thompson, University of Edinburgh, ACRC, and Professor Susan Shenkin, University of Edinburgh, ACRC

1005-1030

Interview with the Director: Professor Bruce Guthrie, ACRC Director interviewed by Laurence Rowley-Abel, Academy PhD Student

1030-1100

Refreshment Break

1100-1200

Exhibitions and Poster Session

Chair: Professor Irene McAra-McWilliam, Deputy Director, Research and Innovation, Glasgow College of Art, ACRC Advisory Board Member

1100-1120

Images of Care: Dr Nichole Fernandez, Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh, ACRC

1200-1315

Lunch (Posters and Exhibitions remain open for viewing)

1315-1425

Complex Interventions: Supporting ageing in place

Chair: Professor Alan Marshall, Personal Chair of Social Research on Inequality, University of Edinburgh, ACRC

1315-1335

Clinical risk prediction in older people and in the face of multimorbidity Professor Bruce Guthrie, Director, ACRC

1335-1355

Working together for evidence informed policy making: Carol Brown, Neil Grant, Scottish Government Social Care Analytical Unit

1355-1410

Co-designing complex healthcare interventions to improve pathways of care for people with multiple-long-term conditions: Dr Stella Arakelyan, Research Fellow, AIM-CISC, University of Edinburgh, ACRC

1410-1425

Unlock the potential of free-text addresses using FLAP: Dr Huayu Zhang, Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh, ACRC

1425-1445

Refreshment break

1445-1515

Complex Interventions: Supporting ageing in place Panel Discussion:

Chair: Professor Alan Marshall, Personal Chair of Social Research on Inequality, University of Edinburgh, ACRC

·       Dr Leona Carroll, Midlothian Health and Social Care Partnership

·       Professor Stewart Mercer, Deputy Director, ACRC

·       Professor Julie Jacko, Chair of Health Informatics and Data Science and Co-Head of the Centre for Medical Informatics at the Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh

·       Debbie Smith, PPIE Group Member and ACRC Advisory Board Member

·       Professor Dame Louise Robinson, Regius Professor of Ageing, Newcastle University, ACRC

1515-1600

Summary and Poster Prize Presentation

1520-1530

The PPIE Perspective: Jo Turnbull, PPIE Group Member

1530-1550

Wrap up: Professor Jill Manthorpe CBE, Professor Emerita of Social Work at King's College London and Deputy Chair, ACRC Advisory Board.

1550-1600

Close: Professor Bruce Guthrie, Director, ACRC