Talk 10: Queer(ing) Ageing: Sexual and Gender Diversity in Later Life. Ageing Well Public Talks series 2024/2025

Join us for a session on sexual and gender diversity in later life, part of the Ageing Well Public Talks series 2024/2025

Please note this talk will take place at a later time than usual starting at 12-1.30pm

How do sexual and gender diversity shape the life course? How do people of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities age authentically? What are the obligations of an ageing society to sexual and gender minorities? In this talk, Jonathan will examine these questions, helping to *increase understanding of how queer theory and critical gerontology can work in tandem to shape everyone’s understanding of ageing and healthy longevity.

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The speakers

Dr Jonathan E. Cohen JD MPhil (he/him/his) is a Clinical Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences at the University of Southern California, where he is also the Director of Policy Engagement for the Institute on Inequalities in Global Health. In 2022-2023, he was Health and Ageing Policy Fellow and American Political Science Congressional Fellow, serving in the office of U.S. Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (DMD). An internationally recognised expert in health and human rights, Cohen designs and leads policy interventions that equip health leaders and systems to reach socially excluded groups and promote human rights accountability. He teaches Global Health, Law, and Human Rights and is an emerging leader in the field of global population ageing, including conducting research on healthy longevity in sexual and gender minorities.

About the series

In the 'Ageing Well Public Talk series' we are exploring how important it is, over our lifespan, to maintain well-balanced nutrition and hydration as well as regular physical and social activity in older age, also known as the 'Five Pillars of Ageing Well'. Ageing demonstrates most significantly when we reach a certain age, the usual benchmark being 65+, but ageing starts much sooner and the way ageing demonstrates when we are over 65 depends on decisions we have been making over our life span.

The series and related materials such as ‘The Five Pillars of Ageing Well’ became the cornerstones of further engagement with the public, specifically around COVID-19 and the relating self-isolation, which are now available on the OU website and the Internet.

The overall aim of these series of interventions is to facilitate a step change in user behaviour and support service provision. Self-management and becoming partner in our own health care is an important aspect of these talks. This may have a wider impact in healthcare economies, as ageing and related co-morbidities have a substantial health and economic burden footprint.

AWPTS is a highly adaptable tool for addressing also the needs of diverse groups requiring tailored interventions, for instance, heart failure and diabetes, where prevention and sustained self-management are crucial for improving quality of life. Since 2019, over 25,000 members of the public have engaged with the talks nationally, and the AWPTS portfolio of resources has engaged over 90,000 people globally; our regular feedback confirms that this intervention has increased knowledge of age-related processes, attitudes to health and wellbeing, confidence in self-management and lifestyle choices for healthy ageing among the public as well as practitioners, professionals, and clinicians who support ageing populations in their professional roles.

This event will be held on Zoom and live streamed to Stadium. The organiser will contact you with instructions on how to access the event.

For more information about the event or if you have any queries, please email WELS Research Events

All talks last between 60-90 min.