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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 awarded 11 new research grants in 2012.
As well as funding through RiAF, Age UK has a wide range of other research interests. Currently, following Age UK's evolution since its formation in 2009, the Board of Trustees is reviewing our research interests overall with the aim of delivering research that drives all aspects of our work - charitable, international and social enterprise - in our combined mission to improve later life in the UK and around the world. During this review, we are not in a position to announce a new grant round. The research strategy that will result from the review is expected to be agreed by the Board of Trustees in Spring 2013. More information will be available after the review.
Get information on our remit, eligibility criteria and value of awards
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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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