Despite, many competition entries having no formal training, the judging panel considered the shortlist 'so impressive they should be on national television'. Entries in the mixed media category included handmade pottery and crocheted blankets.
Celia Gregson, NIHR Global Health Research Professor of Healthy Ageing at the University of Bristol and The Health Research Unit Zimbabwe (THRU-ZIM), and Honorary Consultant Geriatrician at the Royal United Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Bath, who led the competition as part of her NIHR-Wellcome-funded research programme 'Healthy ageing in sub-Saharan Africa', said: "We were delighted to see so many people engage with this competition to help share ideas towards wellbeing in older age, and importantly combat ageism.