Name: AGEING IN A TIME OF CRISIS: FRAILTY & PRECARITY IN LATER LIFE
Start: 2024-11-14T16:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-11-14T18:00:00+00:00
Location: Dalhousie Building

Prof Alan Marshall, will deliver a seminar on how inequalities in frailty are driven by precarities in diverse areas of life.
About this Event

Title and topic : Ageing in a time of crisis: frailty & precarity in later life

In this talk, Professor Marshall will use data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing to consider unequal experiences of later life during a period of crisis in the UK, following the financial crisis of 2008 and subsequent austerity policies. He will examine how inequalities in frailty are driven by precarities in diverse areas of later life (such as in housing, finances, employment, pensions and relationships) and consider whether particular combinations of precarity are especially harmful in terms of impact on frailty.

The seminar will be in person (4:00pm -5.15pm), followed by a short reception (up to 6pm) allowing time for networking.

Background:

Professor Alan Marshall, University of Edinburgh (Social Policy and the Advanced Care Research Centre)

Alan is a Social Statistician by training and has held positions at the Universities of St Andrews, Manchester and Leeds before joining Edinburgh as Director of its Q-Step Centre in 2017. Alan lead programmes of research on a number of projects at Edinburgh including within the Advanced Care Research Centre and the AIM-CISC Multimorbidity project. His current research uses longitudinal data from social surveys in the UK and overseas to better understand the social and biological determinants of inequalities observed in frailty, multimorbidity and wellbeing in later life. He is currently seconded to the Scottish Graduate School for Social Sciences where as Deputy Director he has responsibility for the studentships competitions.

4:00 pm - Introductions (Dalhousie LT 2 , Dalhousie Building)

4:10 pm - Professor Marshall

4:50 pm - Q & A

5.10pm - 6pm Drinks reception