Brighton Business School has hosted a seminar on Activity, Unpaid Work and Active Ageing which was held on February 24th at the Sallis Benney Theatre. This event was part of the ESRC Rethinking Retirement Seminar Series.
The seminar brought together academics, practitioners, older people and policy makers to explore:
- The relationship between activity and well-being in older age;
- The consequences of different paid/unpaid and economic/non-economic activities for older people;
- The concept of 'Active Ageing', and how this is understood and used.
Speakers
Marian Barnes and Lizzie Ward
University of Brighton
Identity, well-being into and beyond retirement
Anne McMunn
University College London
Wellbeing and participation in socially productive activities in older age
Stephen McNair
Centre for Research on the Older Workforce, NIACE
Does learning help: learning for work and life after 50
Paul Stenner
Open University
Active ageing from the perspective of a sample of older people
For further details see www.rethinkingretirement.org
