Healthy Ageing Month programme by theme

Sustaining Physical Activity - Panel

This webinar engages with the good and the great from Public Health Oxfordshire; Clinical Commissioning Group, Oxfordshire; Sport Sciences, Oxford Brookes University (OBU); and experts as far afield as Oulu University Hospital, Finland, and University of Dusseldorf, Germany. Local physical activity providers, policy champions and industry innovators explore how novel approaches to promoting and managing physical activity across the lifespan can promote health long term.

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Keeping going - lessons from physiotherapy and coaching - Panel

A discussion around making and sustaining changes in patterns of activity led by Dr Peter Jackson, Senior Lecturer in Adult, Professional and Lifelong Learning, OBU and Dr Jon Room, Lecturer in Physiotherapy, OBU. This discussion is aimed at people who want to make and sustain changes in their patterns of activity.

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Healthy Eating: what's in your food and how to eat well while at 'work' - Talk

Dr Shelly Coe, Senior Lecturer in Nutrition, OBU and members of Oxford Brookes Centre for Nutrition and Health (OxBCNH) discuss what’s in the food we eat, and how we can maintain a healthy diet through changing and challenging circumstances in order to maintain health and wellbeing as we age.

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Can alcohol help us to live well as we age? - Panel

Can drinking make a positive difference to our overall health and wellbeing? Julie Breslin, Head of Programme, Drink Wise, Age Well / We Are With You; Dr Emma L Davies, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, OBU and Alcohol Lead, Global Drug Survey; Dru Jaeger, Club Soda co-founder and author of How to Be a Mindful Drinker; Fiona Matley, Researcher and PhD student, OBU discuss the role of alcohol in mid and later life, what influences our drinking choices, and what happens when people's drinking habits change as we steer our way through unexpected times in 2020 and beyond.

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1: Challenges of identifying and treating frailty and multimorbidity & 2: Spatial learning, adult neurogenesis and exercise - Talks

Talk 1: 12:00 Dr Paul Potter, Group Leader: Disease Mechanisms and Ageing, OBU, explores the challenges of assessing the successes or not, of treatments for the ageing process. He considers polypharmacy, and whether we should be treating ageing itself rather than the consequences of ageing.

Talk 2: 12:45 Peter Wright addresses adult neurogenesis and the role of exercise as well as presenting a “real” human water maze vs a virtual that can potentially mimic established test paradigms for laboratory animals and assess hippocampus function.

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Supporting unpaid carers: the role of social impact bonds - Talk

Katy Burch, Assistant Director and Tammy Abarno, Senior Consultant, Institute of Public Care look at what works in supporting unpaid carers and how we know.

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Creativity and Ageing during the pandemic - Interactive workshop

Have digital and other creative activities during the pandemic involved the older community? An interactive online workshop will discuss and evaluate both digital and non digital creative activities that during the pandemic have involved the older community.

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Living well after a cancer diagnosis - Panel

Eila Watson, Professor of Supportive Cancer Care, Oxford Brookes University and guest speakers from Macmillan Cancer Support, Here for Health, and Maggie’s Cancer Centre will be joined by patient representatives in a series of short presentations, personal accounts and a panel discussion of how to live well after a diagnosis of cancer, and support services available.

Guest speakers: Shelly Orton from Macmillan, Emma Hagues from Here to Health, Lesley Howells and Claire Marriott from Maggie’s Cancer Centre.

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Two perspectives on dementia: prevention and living well with a diagnosis - Panel

Dr Vanessa Raymont, Director, Oxford Brain Health Clinical Trials Unit, NIHR Dementia and Mental Health Lead, Thames Valley and South Midlands Clinical Research Network, University of Oxford and Rhonda Riachi Development Officer, Oxford Centre for Spirituality & Wellbeing look at dementia from two perspectives.

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Disease management programmes for chronically ill people in Germany - the role of Physical Activity - Talk

Prof Katharina Eckert, Health Management and Public Health, University of Dusseldorf looks at the role of physical activity for chronically ill people.

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Exercise and rehabilitation in the new normal - digital tech time to shine - Talk

As we all adjust to the 'new normal' way of living our daily life we are finding alternative ways of doing things. Digital technology is something that people have become increasingly reliant on. Stan Windsor, Lecturer, Sports Sciences, OBU explains the advantages and current development of a novel mobile application to meet the unmet need of people recovering from COVID-19 and how it could change outpatient care for good.

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Older people during covid-19 - an international perspective - Panel

COVID-19 has a disproportionate impact on Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups. Dr Beacon Mbiba, Senior Lecturer in Urban Policy and International Development, School of the Built Environment, OBU will lead a discussion with Community/Civil Society Champions from the UK and Africa.

Ms Olutoyin Ogunbanjo, London based Charity, Listening Ears.
Bridget Rita Mandizha, Shelter and Homage Trust, Harare

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Maintaining Mobility: One Step at a Time - Talk

Walking can tell us a lot about your general health and can, when using your own smartphone, easily be monitored over a longer duration of time. By understanding how you walk you, your immediate family, or even your clinical team can adjust, monitor and advise you on your lifestyle and/or health conditions.

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Be part of the movement: Benefiting from exercise at any age - Talk

Exercise and physical activity have been compared to a wonder drug or miracle cure, yet people are still not doing enough. Dr Johnny Collett, Senior Clinical Research Fellow, Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, Centre for Movement, Occupational and Rehabilitation Sciences, OBU Professor Helen Dawes, Director, Centre for Movement, Occupational and Rehabilitation Sciences, OBU and Dr Andy Meaney, Head of CLEAR Unit and Clinical Research Project Manager, OBU discuss the benefits of exercise, and explore practical ways to engage in physical activity across the age span.

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Successfully assessing and monitoring remotely: insights from a technology focused trials unit - Talk

Technology offers the opportunity to assess people in their homes, collecting data alongside experiences in the real world. Kim Chapman, Operations Manager, Oxford Clinical Allied Technology and Trial Services Unit, OBU, Dr Johnny Collett, Senior Clinical Research Fellow, Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, Centre for Movement, Occupational and Rehabilitation Sciences, OBU, Dr Maenah Mansoubi, Research Fellow, Centre for Movement, Occupational and Rehabilitation Sciences, OBU give an overview on the use of remote technology and how it can be evaluated.

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Challenges of Active Ageing for the Workplace - Panel

Professor Simonetta Manfredi, Associate Dean Research and Knowledge Exchange, Oxford Brookes Business School, Professor Lucy Vickers, School of Law, Oxford Brookes University, Ulrike Fasbender, Assistant Professor Work and Organizational Psychology, Justus Liebig, University Giessen, Germany, Clare Child, HR Manager, Oxford Bus Company and Deborah Bainbridge, Head of HR at Publica discuss the implications of people working longer, and look at how workplaces are adapting to demographic changes.

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Working Together: employer and manager solutions to support productivity and help people to stay in work - Panel

Professor Helen Dawes, Director Centre for Movement, Occupational and Rehabilitation Sciences, OBU; Dr Johnny Collett, Senior Clinical Research Fellow, Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, MORES, OBU and Dr Nikki Cordell, Managing Director, Cordell Health explore factors which employers and managers can adopt to take full advantage of the potential of having older people in the workforce.

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