Ageing and Health

Elderly women

The N8 Research Centre in Ageing and Health is focused on the application of new technologies in two areas:

  • Assisted Living: the selection, development and application of appropriate technology to overcome disadvantages arising from ageing and to improve quality of life in later years; particularly use of advanced care technologies and using technology to enhance conditions in the home for the ageing population
  • Wellbeing: the through-life application of behaviours that will enhance the experience of ageing and minimise the disadvantageous impacts; with a particular interest in all aspects of nutrition, including food content, food retailing and in measurement of wellbeing.

Principal collaborators include:

  • Institute for Ageing and Health (IAH), Newcastle
  • Sheffield Institute for Studies into Ageing (SISA)
  • Centre for Useable Home Technology, York
  • Plus private sector partners

Contacts

Research Director: Professor Tom Kirkwood (Professor of Medicine and Director of the Institute for Ageing and Health at the University of Newcastle, and Director of the BBSRC Centre for Integrated Systems Biology of Ageing and Nutrition)

Business Development Manager: Graham Armitage
Tel: 0191 248 1306
Email: graham.armitage@ncl.ac.uk