Course: Strategies for Successful Ageing

A healthy sexual relationship can positively affect all aspects of your life, including your physical health and self-esteem. A two-way relationship exists between health (physical and psychological) and sex: better …

Relations between generations in a family can be complicated. How connected do you feel to those older and younger than you? The dimensions of ‘intergenerational solidarity’ below can help you …

People with better cardiovascular health, who have been more physically and mentally active, who have adopted healthy eating habits, who don’t smoke, and who drink alcohol in moderation are less …

Your brain is constantly changing, and your behaviours and experiences shape it at every age. Recent research has found some good news about brain ageing that may surprise you. Your …

Whether someone becomes depressed can be influenced significantly by the level of social support that they have and also the degree of loneliness that they experience. For example, when someone …

It’s hard not to worry, no matter what stage of life you’re at, but there are some practical strategies to help you manage your fears and anxiety. Exercise is a …

In this video, Brian has outlined how worry and anxiety have physical and mental manifestations that may require intervention. In the next step, Brian will be outlining some strategies that …

Thanks to all our learners for their comments in the first week of Strategies for Successful Ageing. Next week we will be looking at strategies for Being Well. We will …

The key message of this week is that your perceptions of ageing influence your ageing process. In the first week, we asked about your perceptions by discussing what ‘old’ is. …

In this video, we looked at three key points: The changing demographics around ageing Why we age What is successful ageing These three points are important when thinking about getting …

This course is structured into five weeks which are themed around the key ideas behind successful ageing. You can expect to learn more about the best strategies for ageing successfully …

Welcome to the first week of the Strategies for Successful Ageing course. We are delighted to see the activity on the pre-course introduction page. We hope this course will continue …

Ageism refers to deep-rooted negative beliefs about older people. It can be difficult to see the full impact of stereotypes. Evidence shows how negative stereotypes about ageing can become self-stereotypes. …

Our experience of ageing is the result of many different factors, ranging from the micro level to the macro level, from biological to social. Not only do people age at …

Generational observing is when we look at the practices of younger and older generations and try to make sense of their behaviours and attitudes. Based on these generational observations, we …