Find details of the ACRC 2024 Spring Symposium here, including the running order, biographies and poster abstracts. 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) Details on all Exhibitions available here Details on all Posters available in the menu to the left hand side 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 This article was published on 2024-09-24
