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Research into Ageing

 
 
At Age UK, we focus our research funds exclusively on later life.

Through the Research into Ageing Fund, we make grants for research to improve the health and wellbeing of older people.

The Research into Ageing Fund (RiAF) is a fund set up and managed by Age UK to support age-related research. Through RiAF, we make grants in response mode for high quality research to improve the health and wellbeing of older people.  We award grants to eligible individuals and organisations through a competitive, peer reviewed process.

Our aim is to fund research that will lead to health and wellbeing solutions for later life. To this end, our emphasis in grant funding through RiAF is on applied and translational research that will or is likely to lead to interventions within 5 years of the end of the research project.

We also aim to encourage research in areas of health and wellbeing that affect large numbers of older people but are under-researched, and to build capacity in ageing research in the UK.

We normally award new research grants once a year. The call for applications for new grants to be awarded in 2012 is now closed. We invited applications for PhD Studentships, Research Fellowships and Clinical Research Fellowships, which we award jointly with the British Geriatrics Society.

We expect to annouce our next call on this page in the second six months of 2012. This will be for award of new grants in 2013.  

Get information on our remit, eligibility criteria and value of awards

The Research into Ageing Fund 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.

RiA is a member of the opens link in new window Association of Medical Research Charities

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Later Life in the UK factsheet

  • 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.

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