The Global Ageing Initiative, under the direction of Professor Barbara Hawkins, addresses many such challenges by fostering collaboration among researchers and teachers of ageing worldwide. Because population ageing is a world phenomena research, investigation, and teaching concerned with ageing will be enhanced through international sharing and joint effort. Two goals are paramount in the Global Ageing Initiative. The first goal is to encourage domestic and international research. The second goal is to foster curriculum development related to global ageing.
Many activities are underway to achieve the project's goals.
To learn about specific activities of the Global Ageing Inititiative scroll this page or click on the topics in the box below. A multi-disciplinary team of principal researchers from 14 geographically diverse countries from around the world are collaboratively investigating the concept of ageing well . As noted above investigators from 14 countries are collectively researching a model of ageing well . The Global Ageing Resources Directory is one example of supporting materials developed by the international collaborative team. The online resource offers citations to various print and electronic resources related to ageing across the globe.