April, 2010
David and Diane Andrewes have been invited to present some of ESPOPF's research and to take part in a seminar at the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology, National University of Ireland, Galway, next spring on April 19th.
September 2nd-4th, 2009
Help the Aged/Age Concern invited David and Diane Andrewes to present a paper on "Older People shaping research" at the Annual Conference of the British Society of Gerontology at Bristol. They took "Pills & Perils" as an example of the differences between service-provider and service-user led research.
April 7th, 2009
Diane was invited to the Launch of the new charity, which will unite Age Concern England and Help the Aged. The main speakers were the Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP Secretary of Health and Social Care, Sir Michael Marmot Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London, Matthew Cherian CEO HelpAge India, Dr Nicola Brewer Chief Executive Equality and Human Rights Commission and Rt Hon Theresa May MP Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
March 30th, 2009
David and Diane Andrewes were invited to speak to an audience of researchers at the Annual Conference of Pharmacists at the University of Brighton on March 30th.
The subject of their power-point presentation was ESPOPF's research into repeat prescribing, "Pills and Perils".
March 13th, 2009
Southampton's Later Years Partnership invited Sandra Gidley MP, Councillor Edwina Cooke, Southampton's Older People's Champion, and Diane Andrewes, ESPOPF Hon. Sec., to lead a discussion with an invited group on older women's issues to mark International Women's Day.
