Wednesday 14th April

17:00 – 18:30

Plenary 1: The Maternal And Placental Origins Of Longevity
David Barker - Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, University of Southampton

19:00

Dinner

Thursday 15th April

9:00 – 11:00

Session A
Capability in ageing: findings from the Healthy Ageing Across the Life Course (HALCyon) programme 

or

Session B
Quality of life at middle age and older (Blane et al)

11:00 – 11:30

Tea and Coffee

11:30 – 13:00

Session A
Health & employment trajectories in later life

• Gender and life course socioeconomic position differences in trajectories of functional limitations: 1946 Birth Cohort
• Fertility history, health and health trajectories in later life: A study of older women and men in the British Household Panel Survey
• Older workers in England and Wales: changes in economic activity status and the relationship with socio-demographic characteristics and household circumstances

or

Session B
Ageing: perspectives and meanings for older people

• Economic vulnerabilities following death of a life partner
• Keeping up appearances:  How older people manage growing old
• Longitudinal studies – the importance of retaining participants

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:30

• The long-term economic cost of childhood psychological and physical health conditions
• Health Inequality over the life-cycle

or

Session B
International Centre for Life Course Studies of Society and Health

15:30 – 16:00

Tea and coffee

16:00 – 17:30

Plenary 2: Understanding Health Across the Life Course: The Effect of Cognition, Personality, and Education

James J. Heckman - Nobel Laureate; Henry Shultz Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Economics, University of Chicago

18:00 – 19:00

Reception and posters

19:00

Dinner

Friday 16th April

9:00 – 11:00

Session A
Physical functioning in later life

• Physical functioning and depressive symptoms at older ages: a prospective examination of their bidirectional association. The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)
• Socioeconomic differences in physical disability at older age
• Obesity and physical functioning in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) 
• Age-trajectories of physical functioning among older adults

or

Session B
Social participation, marital status and well-being in later life

• Older adults' participation in learning and effects on mental health and wellbeing
• Social capital and health among the elderly
• Loneliness and mortality in the older population

11:00 – 11:30

Tea and coffee

11:30 – 13:00

Plenary 3: Contributions of Longitudinal Studies to Aging Research: Functioning, Geriatric Syndromes and Translation to Interventions

Jack Guralnik - Chief, Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, United States

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:30

Session A
Retrospective Life History Analysis

• session coordinated by James Banks abstracts to follow

Session B
Literacy, numeracy, & cognitive capacity

• Literacy, numeracy and disadvantage among older people in England
• Education and wellbeing: a life course perspective
• Investigating individual differences in memory and cognition in National Child Development Study (NCDS) cohort members using a life course approach

15:30

Tea and close