Ageing, race and ethnicity

在接下来的20到30年里，总人口中被定义为晚年的那部分人的规模和性质将发生重大变化。本港人口会继续老化，50岁及以上人士的绝对人数和相对人数会不断增加。与此同时，随着战后移居英国的移民人口的老龄化，黑人和少数民族人口在晚年年龄组中的比例也将显著增加。然而，我们对黑人和少数民族老年人的情况和经历知之甚少，他们如何经历“变老”;（和机会）这就使他们面临着，什么是最重要的研究问题，什么是与这些不同群体进行研究的最佳方法;我们应该如何培训卫生和社会保健工作人员与不同的人群一起工作，以及当代社会和卫生政策对这些不同群体的相关性如何。此外，我们在这一研究领域的社会研究人员数量有限，因此迫切需要刺激新的研究人员进入这一领域，并鼓励那些在职业生涯开始时发展这一研究领域的技能。因此，我们的研讨会系列提案与我们对人口老龄化和“新老龄化”人口所面临的挑战的理解高度相关，并高度原创地结合了对当代知识的实质性最新概述的关注，确定了我们的关键知识差距，培养“新”研究人员，并建立一个有经验的和新兴的研究人员与从业人员和政策制定者相结合的网络，积极的合作和机制，以提高这一重要工作领域的形象。我们的6个系列研讨会将确定和辩论围绕老龄化的经验在不同范围的少数民族社区的关键问题。我们将包括可见的社区，如我们的非洲加勒比和南亚人口，但那些不太明显的群体，如中国，阿拉伯，非洲黑人和土耳其社区。我们将探讨中年和老年生活的种族和文化差异，并专注于以下问题：1.黑人和少数民族的晚年生活和老年生活有什么经历？2.研究这些群体最合适的方法是什么？3.当前的健康和社会政策如何支持我们老龄化的黑人和少数民族人口？4.健康和社会护理从业人员的装备如何与日益多样化的老龄化人口一起实践？5.在未来的研究中需要解决的关键问题是什么？为了回答这些问题，我们将汇集国际知名学者、研究人员、政策制定者和从业人员。我们与Runnymede Trust和Carers UK等非政府组织建立了合作关系，并邀请了Age UK和Age Cymru的代表参加。嵌入每个实质性研讨会将有时间专门用于开发和支持早期职业研究人员，使我们的研讨会系列留下了一个新的研究网络的遗产，一组早期职业研究人员熟练地与这些人群进行研究，同时传播由于我们的计划而产生的关键新知识。

The next twenty to thirty years will see important changes in the size and nature of the part of the total population that is defined as being in later life. Our population will continue to age with an increasing absolute and relative number of people aged 50 and over. At the same time there will also be a marked increase the proportion of people in black and minority populations in the later life age groups as we see the ageing of the migrant populations who moved to the UK in the post war period. However we know very little about the circumstances and experiences of black and minority elders in terms how they experience 'growing older'; what the key challenges (and opportunities) this confronts them with, what are the most important research questions to ask, what are the best ways to undertake research with these diverse groups; how should we train health and social care staff to work with diverse populations and how relevant is contemporary social and health policy for these diverse groups. In addition we have limited numbers of social researchers who are expert in this area of research so there is a pressing need to stimulate new researchers to move into this area and encourage those at the start of their careers to develop skills in this area of research. Thus our seminar series proposal is highly relevant to our understanding of population ageing and the challenges faced by a 'newly ageing' population and highly original in combining a focus on generating substantive state of the art overview of contemporary knowledge, identifying our key knowledge gaps, developing 'new ' researchers and creating a network of experienced and emerging researchers combining with practitioners and policy makers to develop vibrant collaborations and a mechanism to raise the profile of this important area of work. Our series of 6 seminars will identify and debate the key issues surrounding the experience of ageing amongst a diverse range of ethnic minority communities. We will include both the visible communities such as our African Caribbean and South Asian populations but those groups who are less visible such as Chinese, Arab, black African and Turkish communities. We will explore ethnic and cultural differences of mid and older life and focus upon the following questions:-. 1. What are the experiences of later life and old age for black and ethnic minority people?2. What are the most appropriate approaches to researching these groups?3. How well do current health & social policies support our ageing black and minority populations?4. How well equipped are health and social care practitioners to practice with an increasingly diverse ageing population? 5. What are the key issues that need to be addressed in future research?To answer these questions we will bring together established international academics, researchers, policy makers, and practitioners. We have established collaborations between non-governmental organisations such as the Runnymede Trust and Carers UK as well as having delegates from Age UK and Age Cymru. Embedded with each substantive seminar there will be time devoted to developing and supporting early career researchers so that our seminar series leaves a legacy of a new research network, a group of early career researchers skilled in conducting research with these populations alongside the dissemination of the key new knowledge generated as a result of our programme.