Challenging Attitudes & Assumptions About Ageing

Mary Sinfield

NDA Older People’s Reference Group

2008-2013

WHO AM I & WHY AM I HERE?

Define ‘Ageing’?

. . . AFTERREPORT!

. . . AFTER REPORT . . .

REPORT . . .

THE LATEST:‘Filkin Report’ - & Response

What happened next?

• Well, firstly . . . • . . . secondly . . .

Sir Mark Walport, Government Chief Scientific

Advisor

. . . and thirdly.

http://www.centreforageingbetter.com/

CHALLENGES

• Get INFORMATION

• Get pOLITICAL

• Get ASSERTIVE

• Age UK Blog & Knowledge HubAssumes you have Internet access, but if so, is really useful source of information

• Note the small ‘p’.Join local campaigning, community and interest groups and ‘network’.

• The REAL ‘Grumpy Old (Wo)Man’ Don’t just grumble; make your views known directly!

Did you listenOR

did you HEAR?

DON’T ACCEPT ASSUMPTIONS – CHALLENGE THEM!