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We commission social, economic and health research, often by competitive tender, to generate evidence on issues that affect older people. The research is at the heart of our work to change public policy and attitudes on ageing for the better and has supported major successes, for example, abolition of the default retirement age, increasing pensioner income and legislative change for a more age equal society.
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From 1976 to 2010, we have supported over 360 biomedical research projects into healthy ageing, the diseases and disabilities of ageing and the ageing process itself through grants made by Research into Ageing, a constituent charity of Age UK. As a result, significant advances have been made in the understanding, prevention, diagnosis, management and treatment of age-related health problems and in knowledge about healthy ageing.
From 2012, we will award grants through the Research into Ageing Fund for research to improve the health and wellbeing of older people.
We normally call for applications for new grants once a year. The call for new grants to be awarded in 2012 has now closed. We expect to make the next call in the second half of 2012, for award of new grants in 2013.
The Research into Ageing Fund is a fund set up and managed by Age UK to support age-related research and is the name by which we will refer to the Research into Ageing research programme from November 2011. This does not affect the way in which we award research grants, nor the continuation or funding of current projects. Research into Ageing remains a constituent charity in Age UK.
Read more information on other ways in which we support research
For further information on our research funding, please contact us on research@ageuk.org.uk
Age UK is committed to promoting the advancement of ageing research and to facilitating the interaction of researchers for this purpose. In accordance with these objectives, research travel bursaries will be awarded by Age UK to support the presentation of the findings of ageing research at conferences or meetings.
Find out more about the East Midlands research travel bursary
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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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