Glenda Cook’s first career as a nurse prompted her interest in care for older people. In recent years she has focused on researching older people’s experience of services, particularly living in care homes, and the devel- opment of methodologies that promote researching with older people rather than doing research about them.

Contact: glenda.cook@unn.ac.uk

Elsie Richardson (now aged 81) has worked with many older peoples’ groups since retirement. She is a member of Northumbria’s research team and has just been granted a research stu- dentship bursary to start her PhD in October. She is vice chair of North East OPAG, and North East Forum on Ageing.

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