Hundreds of delegates from around the world will meet in Glasgow this week as Scotland hosts the Global Ageing Biennial conference.

The conference at the Scottish Event Campus on Thursday and Friday is preceded by an International Workforce Summit to be held at a city hotel on Wednesday afternoon.

The conference will be the biggest gathering of social care professionals in the world this year.

It will include the launch of 7 September as annual International Day of Care and Support for Older People. 

The events are being hosted by the organisation for Scotland's independent care sector, Scottish Care.

Chief Executive Donald Macaskill says these are pivotal events in the social care calendar, and an important opportunity to exchange knowledge and discuss new strategies that seek to provide high quality care and support for older people:

“These events will bring to Glasgow hundreds of delegates  and speakers from across the world to discuss and debate the critical issues of ageing as they are experienced across the world, to hear of innovative new ideas – how challenges are being met, and how across the world people are beginning to view older age as a positive asset to community.”

As well as keynote speakers from the United Nations and countries around the world, there will be 24 workshops across the two days. These will address subjects including the case for evidence-based reform of social care, the human rights of older people, how technologies and design can improve lives, trauma-informed care of older people, and insights from those providing care in the slums of cities in India.

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