*NEW* UPCOMING EVENT: 'Developing International Collaborations', 24th June 2009, 9am to noon, Cardiff University. Click HERE for more details.

 

Recent Event: OPAN supported the British Society of Gerontology's Emerging Researchers in Ageing 2009 Annual Conference Translating Research into Policy and Practice: Culture, Diversity and Ageing. Within the next few weeks, documents and presentations from this conference will be made available on this website. Please check back soon.

 

 

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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