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Researching ways forward for older people

'And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.' Abraham Lincoln

Research is central to the Charity's mission of securing and upholding the rights of disadvantaged older people in the UK and around the world. We fund vital research on ageing, we influence its direction via the academic and research community, and we promote the effective dissemination of research findings that will have the greatest impact on policy and practice.

Our policy research drives our campaigns and ensures that older people's voices are heard. And through our special trust, Research into Ageing, we currently fund some of the best and most needed biomedical research, which will improve our understanding of health in later life.

The Disconnected Mind

Using as its basis the 1947 Scottish Mental Survey - the most comprehensive study of its kind ever undertaken - Disconnected Mind aims to uncover the causes of mental deterioration in later life and find ways to prevent it. Find out more about this unique project

New funding opportunity for bladder and bowel research

A new joint funding opportunity between Research into Ageing and BBSRC is available for research into the ageing bladder and bowel. It will be presented at an event on 22 January 2008. Find out more and apply for a place at the workshop

Age of Discovery wins AMRC first prize

Age of Discovery won first prize from AMRC Science Communication Awards 2007 for the best research report for a non-expert audience. Age of Discovery describes how Research into Ageing began, our launch and successes over the last 30 years. Download Age of Discovery (PDF)

Prize for scientist funded By Help the Aged Research into Ageing

A prestigious scientific award called the ‘Entente Cordiale Cancer Prize’ has been won by a scientist whose breakthrough research was funded by the Help the Aged biomedical Research into Ageing programme.