UKAN

The UK Ageing Network (UKAN) is made up of 11 interdisciplinary ageing research networks, bringing together researchers and stakeholders from different disciplines to better understand the biological mechanisms of ageing and their impact on human health... UKAN also aims to become the voice for ageing researchers across the UK, working with older people's groups, funders and policy makers as well as health care professionals and regulators to ensure that ageing research is properly resourced and that relevant findings are rapidly implemented into policy and practice... The issue of age-related cognitive frailty is a major societal challenge in terms of its increasing impact on quality of life in our ageing populations, but it is also a challenge in terms of bringing together research from diverse fields. Currently, much research on ageing takes place within disciplines. We are thus beginning to learn much about the biological mechanisms of the ageing process, the psychological and..

Primary location: United Kingdom