Registration, Breakfast and Exhibition

Welcome Address

Hosts: George MacGinnis, Cynthia Bullock
Stian Westlake, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

Room: 175 Suite

Morning Keynote

Dr Patricia Moore

Room: 175 Suite

Housing Revolution: Scaling for Ageing

Professor Julienne Meyer, Older People’s Housing Taskforce
Simon Fitzpatrick, Blackwood Homes and Care
Professor Alison Bowes, Designing Homes for Healthy Cognitive Ageing (DesHCA)
Laura Wood, Invisible Creations®

Age-friendly housing and communities provide the environments that enable people to age healthily, yet the reality is that many people lack the choice, quality and security of the housing they need in later life. The panel explore how this might change, highlighting the work of the Older People's Housing Task Force and innovations that are offering options for greater intergenerational interaction and housing improvements enabling people to retain a high quality of life in their later years. 

Room: 175 Suite

Shaping the Future of Care

Professor Shereen Hussein, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Trudie Fell, Bellevie
Richard Howells , Tribe
Charlotte Whittaker, InCommon

The way we approach and deliver care needs to undergo a transformation. This discussion explores several aspects of care provision, such as shifting demographics and the impact on care needs; the potential of technological advancements such as AI, wearable devices, and robotics, along with related ethical considerations, and the value of community-based care models and supporting social connections to provide holistic care. The session will provide insights into key issues, innovative approaches, and real opportunities for the future of care.

Room: Long Room

Rebooting the Nation’s Health through the Workplace

Tina Woods, Business for Health
Sarah Heyworth, Local Treasures
Professor Wendy Loretto, University of Edinburgh Business School (UEBS) / Supporting Healthy Ageing at Work (SHAW)
Adrian Leather, Active Lancs

Older workers are leaving the workplace early, depriving businesses of valuable skills and risking individual's financial security. The right sort of work in later life enhances financial wellbeing, provides a sense of purpose and a source of social connectedness that all contribute to remaining healthy – and there is a national productivity dividend to boot. Join to discover research and innovation that is making a difference and hear what business leaders say needs to happen, and the respective roles for government, employers and employees in supporting system change.

Room: Prince of Wales

Workshop: The Human-Centred Design Process

Jenni Parker, Humanly
Ali Fawkes, Humanly

Discover how to involve people with lived experience in a meaningful and insightful way through hands on activities and real life case studies. Whether you’re delivering a grant-funded project, working in health and social care, a commissioner, or looking to make an impact in another way, this session will offer practical methods for involving older adults in developing and improving projects and programmes.

Places limited to 30. You must pre-register for this session by emailing [email protected]

Workshop: Social Connections and Storytelling

Dr Sarah Campbell , Play Well For Life
Simon Williams, University of Sussex
Professor Kate Howland, University of Sussex
Associate Professor Alison Ward, University of Sussex

In this interactive workshop, discover how innovation is supporting social connections and community building in this interactive session with Squiboon and Storytelling Connects. Squiboon enables a new type of conversation, facilitated by cutting-edge AI, which allows residential communities to deepen relationships through face-to-face conversation.

Storytelling Connects®, provides a storytelling approach for all, including people living with dementia, through the joint creation of stories, and uses images, text prompts and the senses to stimulate the imagination. 

Delegates will spend around 20 mins on each activity.

No of places: 20. Bookable when confirming your sessions.

Room: Graham Thorpe

Innovation Pitches

Take a seat in the Innovation Pitch Zone to view quick fire pitches from some of the brightest and best innovators shortlisted to pitch in front of a judging panel made up of investors, health partners and those with lived experience. Pitchers will hope to spark the interest of investors, and will also be in with a chance of winning one of 5 awards presented on the main stage at the end of the conference.

Click here to find out more!

Room: Duchy Suite

Digital coffee tables

Meet and connect with other conference delegates to discuss key themes around healthy ageing. Click to attend the digital coffee tables.

Workshop: Using music improvisation to help people with dementia

Giles Wilmore, Music in Mind Remote Ltd
Andrea Vogler, Music in Mind Remote Ltd

During the morning break, take part in an improvised session, led by musicians and music therapists, to discover the benefits that music-making can bring. Music in Mind, from the Manchester Camerata orchestra, is a pioneering music-therapy-based programme for people living with dementia and their carers. Its group-based 'in the moment' musical improvisation encourages people living with dementia to express themselves and communicate with others through music.

No of places: 20. Bookable when confirming your sessions. No experience necessary.

Room: Graham Thorpe

Adding Life to Years

Chair: Mike Farrar, UK Active
Dr Layla McCay, NHS Confederation
Ben Wilkins, Good Boost
Dr Daniela Mercado Beivide, Holly Health
Adrian Leather, Active Lancs

As we see the NHS waiting lists grow, this panel will explore how innovation from the physical activity and leisure sectors can play an increasingly important role in enabling people to remain healthy in both mind and body. 

Room: 175 Suite

Global Market Insights

David Sinclair , International Longevity Centre (ILC)
Arunima Himawan, International Longevity Centre (ILC)
Mandy Dixon, Northern Health Science Alliance (NHSA)
Eric Kihlstrom, Centaur Robotics, Aging2.0
Linda Magee OBE, Department for Business and Trade (DBT)

Join our panel to explore international market opportunities and the help available to exploit them. Learn about the International Longevity Centre's Healthy Ageing and Prevention Index, which provides exporters with insights into the extent to which governments overseas are investing in efforts to prevent ill health and support healthy ageing.

Room: Long Room

Workshop: Designing your future self

Steve Broome, Transitions

This workshop provides an insight into the Life Transitions Service, a project which helps people consider their later life transitions. In this session participants will explore an aspect of their later lives, such as housing or maintaining physical wellbeing, to identify key actions and decisions. The session will gather participants’ feedback on the experience and learn how it can provide an impactful approach in supporting healthy ageing.

No of places: 40. Bookable when confirming your sessions.

Room: Prince of Wales

Workshop: Social Connections and Storytelling

Dr Sarah Campbell, Play Well For Life
Simon Williams, University of Sussex
Professor Kate Howland, University of Sussex
Associate Professor Alison Ward, University of Sussex

Discover how innovation is supporting social connections and community building in this interactive session with Squiboon and Storytelling Connects. Squiboon enables a new type of conversation, facilitated by cutting-edge AI, which allows residential communities to deepen relationships through face-to-face conversation.

Storytelling Connects®, provides a storytelling approach for all, including people living with dementia, through the joint creation of stories, and uses images, text prompts and the senses to stimulate the imagination. 

Delegates will spend around 20 mins on each activity.

No of places: 20. Bookable when confirming your sessions.

Room: Graham Thorpe

Workshop: Using music improvisation to help people with dementia

Another opportunity to join a short improvised session led by the team at Music in Mind to discover the benefits that music-making can bring.

No of places: 20. Bookable when confirming your sessions. No experience necessary.

Room: Graham Thorpe

Rising to the opportunities of an ageing society

Special keynote speaker

Room: 175 Suite

Better than a pill

Rt Hon Professor Paul Burstow , St Andrew’s Healthcare and the Social Care Institute for Excellence
Siobhan Casey, Move More Live More
Giles Wilmore, Music in Mind Remote Ltd
Charlotte Osborn-Forde, National Academy for Social Prescribing
Katy Nex, Social Finance 

Social prescribing is an approach that offers an alternative to medical treatments by connecting people to activities, groups, and services in their community to meet the practical, social and emotional needs that affect their health and wellbeing. This session will explore the challenges faced by innovators in developing new services and how they can make the case for investment. 

Room: 175 Suite

Cities as Champions of Prevention

Nic Palmarini , National Innovation Centre for Ageing (NICA)
Stephen McPeake, CivicDollars
Tina Woods, Business for Health 
Alexey Strygin, Gero
Avivah Wittenber Cox, 20 First

Cities, today more than ever, can and must amplify the role of 'champion of prevention'. This session will explore how practical actions in the design of infrastructure, combined with innovations to promote lifestyle and cultural change, could transform cities into spaces that foster health and wellbeing, helping residents and tourists to live longer, healthier lives. You will learn how this is a growing global movement and hear from innovators in the UK whose work is helping cities start this journey.

Room: Long Room

Doing Co-design Differently

Helen Manchester, University of Bristol
Georgina Densley, Alive Activities

Discover how arts and culture can improve quality of life of older adults, particularly those who are disabled, or racially or socioeconomically minoritised. Connecting Through Culture as we age has worked with older adult co-researchers, creative and project partners to co-design new arts and cultural experiences that aim to support wellbeing and social connection. Learn how they moved away from traditional approaches to design and digital innovation by embedding design in the everyday, as a response to older adults’ diverse lives, creative interests and passions.

Room: Duchy suite

Workshop: Sharing Biographies and Looking to the Future

Aled Singleton , Researcher and Tutor in Human Geography
Merryn Thomas, Senior researcher, Centre for Ageing and Dementia Research
Carol Maddock, Centre for Innovative Ageing

Live from Swansea, join this workshop to discover how the OPTIC project is using mapping systems such as Google Earth and Streetview to understand younger and older people’s perspectives of climate change, behaviours and visions for the future. The spatially led approach is helping people connect memories, experiences and future feelings to spaces and places.

Places limited to 40. Click here to join the meeting.
Meeting ID: 945 0321 9292 
Passcode: 859127 

Workshop: Creative Movement Workshop to Overcome Ageism

Sian Stevenson, Moving Memory Dance Company

A creative movement workshop from Moving Memory Dance Theatre will demonstrate the distinctive physical practice of participant-led creativity and how this process overcomes ageist expectations or assumptions. Delegates will experience for themselves how they get people moving and making together, animating individual thoughts and feelings and transforming the personal into a shared experience. 

No of places: 15. Bookable when confirming your sessions.

Room: Graham Thorpe

Break- Posters/Exhibits

Room: Duchy Suite

Workshop: Using music improvisation to help people with dementia

Another opportunity to join a short improvised session led by the team at Music in Mind to discover the benefits that music-making can bring.

No of places: 20. Bookable when confirming your sessions. No experience necessary.

Room: Graham Thorpe

Towards a better future

Chair: James Naughtie
Heléna Herklots CBE , Older People’s Commissioner for Wales
Andrew Scott, The Longevity Forum
Bertha Ochieng, De Montfort University, Centre for Primary Care Research, Digital Health Care Unit
This final session will explore what the future holds for our ageing population, and what needs to be done to ensure that all generations are able to make the most of the opportunities that will arise in education, work, leisure, how we care and where we live. The discussion will build on the themes from earlier sessions, highlighting the economic value of remaining healthier for longer, the need to ensure that no one is left behind and highlight opportunities for fresh innovation and research. 

Room: 175 Suite

Innovation Pitch Awards - Winners Announced

Room: 175 Suite

Closing Address and Celebration

Room: 175 Suite

Closing Reception

Join us for drinks, networking, and nibbles.

Room: Duchy Suite