A PIPES workshop will take place on Friday 5th May 2006 at Newcastle University on dementia and normal cognitive ageing. The research project ‘Boundary Work, Normal Ageing and Brain Pathology’ has over the past two years investigated how biomedical and social changes have interacted to transform the understanding of the boundaries between ‘normal’ and ‘abnormal’ cognitive ageing. It has identified important transitions and uncertainties in the biomedical and clinical understanding of dementia as well as in the social organisation of dementia care and its political framing.
This event is a research user workshop to discuss the implications of these results for future dementia research and care, for the culturally embedded knowledge about the experiences of older citizens, and to reflect on the role the diverse stakeholders could play in the debate. The panel will include an array of participants that will include specialist and non-specialist clinicians, biomedical researchers and ‘concerned’ lay members, including patient association/charity representatives, and dementia patients and their carers.
The diversity of participants will promote debate and enhance our understanding of the different viewpoints of the ageing process, how these views interact, and how they affect relations between older people, professionals and scientists.
The workshop, which is invitation only, will take place on Friday 5th May 2006 in Newcastle University’s Research Beehive which is situated on the main University campus. The workshop will begin at 10.00 a.m. and finish at 4.30 p.m. For more information, please contact Dr. Tiago Moreira (t.e.moreira@ncl.ac.uk) |
