Ageing Intelligence and Ageing Better

This ARK event is hosted together with our partner Ageing 2.0

Keynote Lecture: Professor Lynne Corner

"Ageing Intelligence: A consumer perspective on the business of healthy longevity"

Professor Lynne Corner is a gerontologist and Director of VOICE at the UK National Innovation Centre for Ageing (NICA) at Newcastle University. VOICE is an international organisation established to harness the immense experience, skills and insights of the public, of all ages and backgrounds, including older people. Members work with research and businesses to identify consumer unmet needs, priorities and aspirations and co-develop products and services that are needed to support healthy ageing. Lynne has a particular interest in horizon scanning for innovation, inter-generational relationships, and the use of artificial intelligence and data. NCIA and VOICE work with businesses from all sectors to help develop their strategies for capitalising on the immense commercial opportunities for growth from global population ageing. She is a member of the Academy of Medical Sciences working group on the Global Challenge of Multi Morbidity and is a Trustee of the Lewy Body Dementia Society.

King's Speaker: Professor Katherine Sleeman

"Why Palliative Care is an essential part of Ageing Better"

Professor Katherine Sleeman is the Laing Galazka Chair in Palliative Care, based at the Cicely Saunders Institute, King’s College London. She holds an NIHR Clinician Scientist Fellowship and is an Honorary Consultant in palliative medicine at King’s College Hospital NHS Trust.

Katherine's research interests are the use of routine data to understand and improve end of life care, palliative care for people with dementia, and the intersection between palliative care and policy. She is PI on the NIHR funded CovPall_CareHomes study and the Marie Curie Better End of Life Programme. She is co-ap on EMBED-Care, a five-year NIHR-ESRC programme to improve palliative dementia care, within which she leads on routine data and public/policy engagement. She was previously a Cicely Saunders International Scholar (2015-2016) and an NIHR Clinical Lecturer (2010-2015), both based at King’s. In 2019 she received the inaugural Women in Palliative Care award from the European Association of Palliative Care. In 2020 she received a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust award to explore public and policy engagement in palliative care.

 

Ageing Research at King's (ARK) is a cross-faculty multidisciplinary consortium of investigators which brings together scholarship and research in ageing in several complementary areas. ARK represents King’s world class excellence for research on the biology of ageing, from the basic mechanisms in biogerontology and clinical translation to social impact of ageing and technology transfer. The primary purpose of ARK is to enhance multidisciplinary research collaborations within King’s to better understand the mechanisms of ageing, improving health-span and longevity leading to innovation and entrepreneurship. As ageing consists of complex systems at the level of biology, psychology, society and public policy, in order to understand the processes of ageing and the nature of old age itself, it is important to bring together research and innovation from a number of key disciplines. ARK is uniquely positioned to address the challenges of an ageing world, and to provide answers at multiple levels, from cellular mechanisms and therapeutics to health tech innovations and social sciences, facilitated through an academic-industry hub at King's and ARK global partners.