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Care and support: Lizzie Feltoe
Care and support: Stephen Lowe
Communities and inclusion: Gemma Bradshaw
Communities and inclusion: Greg Lewis
Computers and technology: Gretel Jones
Consumer issues: Gretel Jones
Consumer issues: Jane Vass
Equality and human rights: Katherine Hill
Health and wellbeing: Margit Physant
Health and wellbeing: Ruthe Isden
Health and wellbeing: Tom Gentry
Housing and homes: Joe Oldman
Local government: Belinda Wadsworth
Money matters: Lucy Malenczuk
Money matters: Sally West
Transport: Gemma Bradshaw
Work and learning: Chris Brooks
If you want to contact anyone in the Policy team please email: policy@ageuk.org.uk
Our Public Affairs team works with Parliamentarians, Government and stakeholders across the public, private and voluntary sector to highlight issues of importance to people in later life.
We work closely with Age UK’s policy advisers, as well as with colleagues in our information team, to ensure that our policies are informed by the experiences of older people.
Hilary is Head of our Public Affairs team.
Hilary's role is to develop and implement a public affairs programme that delivers changes to legislation, policy, practice and influences public opinion and attitudes in a way that builds profile and enhances our reputation.
This includes influencing government and politicians, managing how we communicate with stakeholders and overseeing the delivery of high impact events.
Politics and government: Angela Kitching
Politics and government: Mervyn Kohler
Parliament: Camilla Williamson
Stakeholders: Jen Pufky
Conferences: Georgina Whitehead
If you want to contact anyone in the Politics and Government team please email: influencingadmin@ageuk.org.uk
James is head of our research department in Age UK.
His responsibilities include funding and commissioning a wide portfolio of research (including biomedical work on ageing and social research); knowledge management, including the operations of the Centre for Expertise on Ageing and all research partnerships, internal and external, including international.
James also chairs two working groups (Industry and Public Affairs) of the UK Age Research Forum which has its secretariat in the Department.
He has a Visiting Professorship in Ageing at Loughborough University.
Social research: Dr Matthew Norton
Social research: Sujata Ray
Social research: Madeleine Thornton
Economics: Jose Iparraguirre
Bio-medical research: Libby Archer
Evidence and statistics: Phil Rossall
Evidence and statistics: Susan Davidson
Resources: Wendy Spink
Research coordinator: Charlotte Ladyman
If you want to contact anyone in the Research team please email: research@ageuk.org.uk
Jacqui is the Head of our International team, responsible for Age UK's strategy for its international work and the relationships we have with organisations outside the UK.
A key pillar of our international strategy is working through HelpAge International to influence policy and deliver programmes for people in later life in developing countries.
The team works to facilitate the involvement of people across Age UK in our international work.
Global influencing: Ken Bluestone
European influencing: Nicola Robinson
Former Soviet Union and the Balkans: Oscar Franklin
Emergencies and the DEC: Lucy Billings
International development and communications: Judith Escribano
If you want to contact anyone in the International team please email: international@ageuk.org.uk
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This factsheet, which is updated on a monthly basis, is the most up-to-date source of publicly available, general information on people in later life in the UK.
Downloads
A download is a document (like a research report, a leaflet, or an application form) that can be transferred from our website to your computer. You can download a file, view it on your screen, print it, or save it to your computer.
PDF stands for ‘portable document format’.
Most downloads on this website are PDFs. We use this format to ensure that the document looks the same on everyone’s computer (website pages, by contrast, appear differently depending on how people have set their computer up).
Computers use a program called Adobe Acrobat Reader to download PDFs. If you try clicking on a link to download a PDF and it doesn’t work, you will need to install Adobe Acrobat Reader onto your computer.
The process is quite straightforward and is free.
PDFs cannot be changed. If you need to be able to type into a downloaded document (for example, if we are offering a letter template that you need to put your name on) we will provide it as a Microsoft Word document rather than a PDF. You can then download it, type into it and save it to your computer.
Downloads will open on your computer in a new browser window.
Inside this window (below all your web browser menus), there will be a toolbar with options for you to print or save the document.
Close the browser window to return to the Age UK website.
We have made every effort to make our PDFs accessible to screen readers. Here is an overview of your accessibility options available in Acrobat Reader. Please ensure that you have downloaded the latest version of Acrobat Reader from the Adobe Reader website to ensure that they are included in your version of the programme.
You can use Adobe Reader to read a PDF out loud with the following shortcut keys:
You can also convert a PDF into a web page by following these steps:
You can convert a PDF document into a text file for use with other software and hardware such as Braille printers by opening the PDF and choosing ‘Save as text’ from the File menu.
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