{"id":3177,"date":"2014-09-05T13:47:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T12:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ark.ac.uk\/ap\/?page_id=3177"},"modified":"2015-06-24T13:50:28","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T12:50:28","slug":"bsg14","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ark.ac.uk\/ap\/bsg14\/","title":{"rendered":"bsg14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>British Society of Gerontology 43<sup>rd<\/sup> Annual Conference: New Understandings of Old Age and the Lifecourse<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>University of Southampton, 1-3 September 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3179\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3179\" style=\"width: 167px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ark.ac.uk\/ap\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/web4a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3179 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.ark.ac.uk\/ap\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/web4a-300x288.jpg\" alt=\"Paula Devine and Lynn Johnston\" width=\"167\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ark.ac.uk\/ap\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/web4a-300x288.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ark.ac.uk\/ap\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/web4a.jpg 327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 167px) 100vw, 167px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paula Devine and Lynn Johnston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a title=\"pd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ark.ac.uk\/ap\/people\/pd\/\">Paula Devine<\/a> and <a title=\"gc\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ark.ac.uk\/ap\/people\/gc\/\">Gemma Carney<\/a> organised a symposium at the British Society of Gerontology conference in September 2014.\u00a0 This symposium &#8216;Ageing and Social Isolation in Divided Societies: social, political and cultural intersections in Britain and Ireland&#8217;\u0092 consisted of four papers:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Understanding resilience in divided societies&#8221;, Gemma Carney<br \/>\n&#8220;Well served? Services for socially-isolated older men in Belfast, Northern Ireland&#8221;, Paula Devine, Janet Carter Anand and Lorna Montgomery<br \/>\n&#8220;The abuse of older people: to legislate or not to legislate?&#8221;, Janet Carter Anand, Lorna Montgomery and Brian Taylor<br \/>\n&#8220;Intersecting ageism: age relationships and the legacy of the conflict in Northern Ireland&#8221;, Lynn Johnston<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lynn Johnston is a practitioner with <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.centreforip.org.uk\/northern-ireland\">Linking Generations<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qub.ac.uk\/schools\/SchoolofSociologySocialPolicySocialWork\/Staff\/AcademicStaff\/JanetCarterAnand\/\">Janet Carter Anand<\/a> is a lecturer in Social Work in Queen&#8217;s University.\u00a0 <a title=\"sl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ark.ac.uk\/ap\/people\/sl\/\">Sarah Lawrence<\/a>, a PhD student associated with the ARK Ageing Programme also attended the conference.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3181\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3181\" style=\"width: 598px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ark.ac.uk\/ap\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/web2a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3181 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ark.ac.uk\/ap\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/web2a.jpg\" alt=\"Lynn, Sarah, Gemma, Paula and Janet\" width=\"598\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ark.ac.uk\/ap\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/web2a.jpg 598w, https:\/\/www.ark.ac.uk\/ap\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/web2a-300x88.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3181\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Lynn, Sarah, Gemma, Paula and Janet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3177\" data-postid=\"3177\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3177 themify_builder\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Society of Gerontology 43rd Annual Conference: New Understandings of Old Age and the Lifecourse University of Southampton, 1-3 September 2014 Paula Devine and Gemma Carney organised a symposium at the British Society of Gerontology conference in September 2014.\u00a0 This symposium &#8216;Ageing and Social Isolation in Divided Societies: social, political and cultural intersections in Britain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3177","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","no-post-title","no-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ark.ac.uk\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ark.ac.uk\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ark.ac.uk\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ark.ac.uk\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ark.ac.uk\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3177"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.ark.ac.uk\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3957,"href":"https:\/\/www.ark.ac.uk\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3177\/revisions\/3957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ark.ac.uk\/ap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}