Sarah Harper is a British gerontologist. She achieved particular acclaim when she established Oxford's Institute of Ageing, and became the University of Oxford's first Professor of Gerontology. She holds the first Professorship of Gerontology at the University of Oxford. In 2006 she published Ageing Societies Ageing Societies: Myths, Challenges and Opportunities, and an article "Mature Societies" in Daedelus which set the agenda for a new concept of global gerontology. She is active in both Asia and Europe. In 2008 she was awarded the University of Malaya Chair in Old Age, as a recognition of her unique contribution to research in Asian ageing studies.
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