MICRA Annual Public Lecture

'Beyond the fiction and fear: finishing Alzheimer's for the future'

Tuesday 20 May 2014, 6.30 pm

Peter Whitehouse
Professor of Neurology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA

Introduced by Councillor Sue Cooley
Chaired by Professor Alistair Burns

Co-author of ‘The Myth of Alzheimer’s’ (St.Martin’s Press), Professor Whitehouse’s research interests include the neurobiology of what he used to refer to as Alzheimer’s disease. His work provides a challenge to clinical and social perspectives concerning Alzheimer’s, raising critical questions about conventional wisdoms and assumptions about growing old. Professor Whitehouse provides a new approach to understanding the ageing brain, linking this with an ethically-grounded vision of what it means to age well.

Sue Cooley is the councillor with day-to-day lead for Age-friendly Manchester and is the deputy Lord Mayor and the Lord Mayor elect. Alistair Burns is Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at the University of Manchester and National Clinical Director for Dementia, NHS England.

From the Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing (MICRA) and the School of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester.

MICRA promotes interdisciplinary and innovative research on all aspects of ageing and bring together a network of over a thousand academics, practitioners, policy makers and older people to bridge research, policy and practice. MICRA members receive an e-newsletter detailing ageing related events, news and activities. Sign up at the MICRA website.

Attendees do not need to bring a paper ticket to the event.