NEWS

The International Association of Gerontology & Geriatrics annual conference will take place at Swansea University on 1st & 2nd July 2010.

For further information visit www.gerontology2010.swansea.ac.uk

 

The presentations from the first meeting of the Knowledge Transfer & Utilisation Research & Development Group on 21 Jan 2010 are now available here

 

A study day exploring the future of care will take place at Caerphilly County Borough Council on 24th March 2010. Further details available at www.citizenscouncil.org.uk - booking deadline: 15th March.

 

The 9th Welsh Stroke Conference takes place on 25 Jun 2010 at the Riverfront Centre, Newport - more details here

 

Forthcoming OPAN Seminars: 

 

Wednesday 17th March, 1 - 2pm, Refreshments at 12.30.   Professor Judith Phillips, Swansea University, in Room 134 Faraday Building, Swansea University and via video conference in Room G7, Thoday Building, Bangor University.

 

 'Spaces and Places: Older people's experience of unfamiliar space'

 

This will address spatial design issues and report on the findings of the ESRC-funded OPUS study.

 

 

You will also be able to watch the seminar on your own computer via a live internet link: http://www.jvcs.ja.net/s/14ShWz06 (log in at 1pm)

 

 

Welcome to the Older People & Ageing Research & Development Network (OPAN Cymru).

 

 

The aims of OPAN Cymru are to improve the lives of older people through the integration of research, policy and practice in Wales.

 

The multi-disciplinary research network links research to practice and policy-making through shared research initiatives, workshops, seminars, conferences and the website.

 

OPAN Cymru facilitates collaborative research projects in order to raise the profile of research into ageing. It will take the lead in developing research and can contribute expertise to other projects that require an older people or ageing dimension.

OPAN Cymru is one of nine thematic research networks, and four research infrastructure groups, funded by the Wales Office of Research and Development (WORD). The nine networks contribute to a formidable research community in the principality and are coordinated by the Clinical Research Collaboration Cymru (CRCC) OPAN Cymru is a multidisciplinary, multi-sectoral collaborative project including academics from Swansea; Bangor and Cardiff Universities together with practitioners and policy makers with a breadth of experience across the fields of health, social care, medicine and nursing.

OPAN Objectives