An international perspective on the Built Environment for an Ageing Population: Issues in maintaining access to outdoor places

How can we maintain lifelong access to outdoor places so that they are useable by, and enjoyable for, everyone? Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors is delighted to welcome expert members of its IDGO TOO research review panel to lead an open-to-all seminar on this challenge. Combining presentations, discussion and the opportunity for participants to engage in question and answer sessions with the experts, the seminar will present a truly international perspective on the built environment and consider issues relating to maintaining access to outdoor places for older people. Speakers, reflecting the diversity of the issues at play will include:

Gloria Gutman, Gerontologist, Professor/Director, Emerita Simon Fraser University Gerontology Dept. & Gerontology Research Centre and President, International Network for Prevention of Elder Abuse.

James Ashton Miller, Research Professor and Director, Biomechanics Research Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, USA

Rob Methorst, Vulnerable Road users expert, Rijkswaterstaat Centre for Transport and Navigation, Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, The Netherlands

Brian Little, Psychologist, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, Carleton University, Canada, and Visiting Fellow, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge

Dawn Skelton Reader in Ageing and Health, HealthQWest, Glasgow Caledonian University,UK