Pictures of ageing in Uganda; A partnership to explore demographics, phenotype and self perception in a community of older people

人们正在变老，而且不仅仅是在西方国家。在低收入国家，预期寿命延长带来的社会压力正在显现。我们真的不知道低收入国家的老龄化是什么样子，许多人也不知道他们的确切年龄。我们将致力于确定乌干达一个社区中人们的确切年龄(人口统计信息)的方法，并建立其老年人的功能和认知健康状况的图景。与此同时，我们将让同样的人参与一个社区艺术项目，以探索他们对年龄的自我认知。全球人口老龄化将导致虚弱、残疾和依赖的增加。这些问题的解决办法必须在财政、社会和环境方面可持续，以避免损害当前和未来人口的生活机会。此外，提出的解决方案必须得到老年人口本身的支持。通过这笔赠款，我们将在剑桥和乌干达与乌干达的老年人社区建立一个由学者、艺术家、非政府组织和政府组织组成的令人兴奋的多学科伙伴关系网络。这一伙伴关系将提供一个框架，利用历史人口学、心理学、公共卫生流行病学和视觉艺术来探索人口统计学、健康老龄化表型和自我认知，以便在乌干达的一个社区建立一幅全面的老龄化图景。我们将与老年人社区共同开发想法，以产生一个多学科的人口统计、表型和功能能力，以及老龄化对他们意味着什么的视觉表现。我们希望这将成为未来研究资助申请的基础。

People are getting older and not just in Western countries. Societal pressures from extended life expectancy are now emerging in low-income countries. We don't really know what ageing looks like in low-income countries, and many people don't know their exact age. We will work on methods to determine people's exact ages (demographic information) in a community in Uganda and build up a picture of its older people's functional and cognitive health. At the same time, we will involve the same people in a community arts project to explore their self-perception of ageing.Ageing populations across the globe will lead to a rise in frailty, disability and dependency. Solutions to these problems must be financially, socially and environmentally sustainable to avoid prejudicing life chances of current and future populations. In addition proposed solutions must have buy-in from the older population themselves. Through this grant we will establish an exciting multi-disciplinary partnership network of academics, artists, non-governmental and governmental organisations in Cambridge and Uganda with a community of older people in Uganda. This partnership will provide a framework to explore demographics, the healthy ageing phenotype, and self-perception using historical demography, psychology, public health epidemiology, and visual arts in order to build up a holistic picture of ageing in a community in Uganda. We will co-develop ideas with a community of older people to produce a multi-disciplinary demographic, phenotypic and functional capacity and visual representation of what ageing means to them. We hope that this forms the basis of a future research grant application.