A Selection of Useful Links
Other Networks
NCAR - UK National Collaboration for Ageing Research - brings together the major research funding bodies - www.shef.ac.uk/ukncar/
Network for Rehabilitation Using Functional Electrical Stimulation for Therapy and Functional Restoration - (an EPSRC funded network) http://fesnet.eng.gla.ac.uk/
EU 6th Framework project on Buildings and Urban Spaces for All www.polis-ubd.net
UK - Indoor Environments Group www.le.ac.uk/ieh/ukieg/ukieg.html
Sites with extensive links to organisations concerned with ageing and disability
AgeNet - a much used site but not updated recently - www.agenet.ac.uk
Axistive - Assistive Technology - www.axistive.com
Disability Network - www.disabilitynetwork.co.uk
3rdagehomes - The Bartlett, University College London - very comprehensive set of links to ageing related sites of all types but especially housing related - www.3rdagehomes.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/homepg/homelinks.html
RSA Inclusive Design - A special resource for designers, teachers of design and their students which draws very heavily on EQUAL i-design project www.inclusivedesign.org.uk
Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG) www.sosig.ac.uk/about_us/linkcode.html
Social Policy Association - extensive links of all types many of which are concerned with ageing and disability issues -http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/spsw/spa/
IOG - The Institute of Gerontology, King's College London - links and information for researchers in social, economic and biological gerontology - www.kcl.ac.uk/gerontology
International Association of Gerontology - links to many gerontology associations across the world - www.sfu.ca/iag/
Novartis Foundation for Gerontology - lots of useful background to ageing issues, well worth a visit - www.healthandage.com
RADAR (The Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation) - The Disability Network - Lots of useful links www.radar.org.uk/Links/Linksgraphics.asp
The United Kingdom Institute for Inclusive Design www.ukiid.org
World Health Organisation - housing and health - www.euro.who.int/housing
Charities, Government Departments, Professional Bodies and specialist centres
Age Concern - www.ageconcern.org.uk
Alzheimer's Society - www.alzheimers.org.uk
(Research Grants Programme- www.qrd.ion.ucl.ac.uk)
Anchor Trust - www.anchor.org.uk
Association of Directors of Social Services - www.adss.org.uk
Better Government for Older People - www.bettergovernmentforolderpeople.gov.uk
Blindcare - www.btinternet.com/~blindcare/
British Council of Disabled People - www.bcodp.org.uk/
British Geriatrics Society - www.bgs.org.uk
British Society for Research on Ageing - www.bsra.org.uk
British Healthcare Internet Association - www.bhia.org
British Heart Foundation - www.bhf.org.uk
British Society of Gerontology - www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/bsg
Carers - Government information for Carers - www.carers.gov.uk
Centre for Accessible Environments - www.cae.org.uk
Centre for Policy on Ageing - www.cpa.org.uk
Community Fund - www.community-fund.org.uk
College of Occupational Therapists - www.cot.org.uk
DPTAC - Disabled Peoples Transport Advisory Committee - www.dptac.gov.uk
Disability Job Site - www.disabilityjobsite.co.uk
Disabled Living Foundation - www.dlf.org.uk
Disability Information Service - www.diss.org.uk
Disability Net - www.disabilitynet.co.uk
European Disability Forum - www.edf-feph.org
Foundation for Advancement of Assistive Technology - www.fastuk.org
Foresight Programme - www.foresight.gov.uk
Health Technology Assessment Centre, National Coordinating Centre - www.ncchta.org
Help the Aged - www.helptheaged.org.uk
Institute of Biology - www.iob.org
Institute of Healthcare Management - www.ihm.org.uk
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - www.jrf.org.uk
King's Fund - www.kingsfund.org.uk
Medical Devices Agency - www.medical-devices.gov.uk
Muscular Dystrophy Campaign - www.muscular-dystrophy.org
National Autistic Society - www.nas.org.uk
National Blind Childrens Society - www.nbcs.org.uk
National Health Service Delivery and Organisation (SDO) - www.sdo.lshtm.ac.uk
Nuffield Foundation - www.nuffieldfoundation.org
RADAR (The Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation) - The Disability Network - www.radar.org.uk/
Research into Ageing - www.ageing.org
Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists - www.rcslt.org
Royal National Institute for the Blind - www.rnib.org.uk
Royal National Institute for the Deaf - www.rnid.org.uk
Stroke Association - www.stroke.org.uk
Vision 2020 UK - www.vision2020uk.org.uk/default.asp
Wellcome Trust - www.wellcome.ac.uk
Research Councils, NHS Research, Research Funding, Department of Health
BBSRC - Science of Ageing (SAGE) initiative - www.bbsrc.ac.uk/science/initiatives/sage.html
EPSRC - EQUAL's sponsors - www.epsrc.ac.uk
EQUAL - this web site! - www.equal.ac.uk
ESRC - Growing Older Programme - parallels EPSRC's EQUAL initiative - www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/gop/index.htm
Department of Health - research information - www.doh.gov.uk/research
Department of Health - Digest of Health related and research funding and training opportunities www.rdinfo.org.uk/
Department of Health - National Service Framework for Older People - www.doh.gov.uk/nsf/olderpeople.htm
Community of Science (COS) - funding opportunities across all fields www.refund.ncl.ac.uk/RefundNew/index.htm
The National Research Register (NRR) is a database of ongoing and recently completed research projects funded by, or of interest to, the United Kingdom's National Health Service - www.update-software.com/National/
Academic Departments of Universities or Hospitals
ACIOG - The Age Concern Institute of Gerontology, King's College London - links and information for researchers in social, economic and biological gerontology - www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/life_sciences/health/gerontology/top.html
The Centre for Usable Home Technology, University of York www.cuhtec.org.uk
CIRRIE - The University at Buffalo Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange (CIRRIE), bibliographic database relating to rehabilitation research conducted outside of the United States - http://cirrie.buffalo.edu
Centre for Research on Older Workers www.surrey.ac.uk/Education/crow
Center on Aging, NORC/University of Chicago http://www.longevity-science.org
Helen Hamlyn Research Centre - Royal College of Art - specialists in Inclusive Design - www.hhrc.rca.ac.uk
IE - Research Group for Inclusive Environments, University of Reading - www.reading.ac.uk/ie
Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University of Bournemouth School of Design, Engineering and Computing and Salisbury District Hospital - www.salisburyfes.com
MIT Media lab - assistive technologies for amnesia - www.media.mit.edu/wearables/mithril/memory-glasses.html
3rdagehomes - The Bartlett, University College London - http://3rdagehomes.org/
SEE ALSO EQUAL PROJECTS
Journals
Age and Ageing - major journal - www.oup.co.uk/ageing/
International Journal of Experimental, Clinical and Behavioural Gerontology - www.karger.ch/journals/ger/ger_jh.htm
Useful indicators
Information on sustainability indicators (useful for EPSRC proposals) can be found at : www.sustainable-development.gov.uk/indicators/
ONS 'health accounts' (could be of use in constructing arguments of the benefit of EQUAL style research): www.statistics.gov.uk/themes/health_care/UK_Health_Accounts/default.asp
Management of Intellectual Property: NHS Framework and Guidance Document www.innovations.nhs.uk
Transport and Disability
For a list of sources of information on disability and transport click here
If you know of a link which ought to be included on this list then please contact the Co-ordinator