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How do we bring different research expertise together to solve the challenges of ageing...

How do we bring different research expertise together to solve the challenges of ageing?

The Cognitive Frailty Interdisciplinary Network

Cognitive Frailty is now recognised as a syndrome in which older people who are physically frail (have poor muscle strength, slowed walking and often experience exhaustion and weight loss) also have impairments in certain thinking skills, concentration and maybe memory, but they don’t have dementia. People with cognitive frailty are at higher risk of developing dementia in the future, of becoming more dependent on support and of more serious outcomes from any new event such as an infection or fall. However, what’s important about this condition is that it is potentially reversible. A national team led by members of C4AR at Lancaster University have been pulling together different scientific and social science methods to look at what interventions and treatments might be possible. This event will look at what more we can achieve when biologists, health researchers, psychologists, neurophysiologists, social policy and public health specialists all work together with the involvement of older adults, some of whom may be living with cognitive frailty or caring for those who are.

This one-day event (previously called the “Town and Gown”) will showcase work from Lancaster University’s Centre for Ageing Research and present a series of studies examining issues relating to underlying mechanisms and predictors, experiences and interventions for cognitive frailty. We will hear from researchers from a range of disciplines and about projects at varying stages, so you can be sure to learn about the very latest work.

We will also hear from some of our PhD students on a wider range of projects from across the centre. There will be a chance to talk to some of our students and other researchers about their work in the lunchtime poster viewings, and find out how to get involved yourself. And of course, we’ll provide a light lunch, all in our Health Innovation One building, which has good parking facilities and a nearby bus stop on the A6 (please let us know when you register if you would like a parking space).