JustAge – Towards a Just, Stage-of-Life sensitive Allocation of Healthcare Resources
The JustAge study explores the intersection between age and healthcare justice. This will help to determine how healthcare resources can be allocated in a way that avoids unfair discrimination between population groups.
JustAge (Towards a Just, Stage-of-Life sensitive Allocation of Healthcare Resources) is a three-year collaborative project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), led by Dr. Sapfo Lignou with support from a team of researchers at the University of Oxford, the University of Reading, and King’s College London. The study draws on expertise from more than 20 partner organisations in ethics, clinical and population medicine, public policy, healthcare commissioning, and law.
JustAge works to identify and analyse age-related assumptions in healthcare resource allocation to understand their impact on access to healthcare from early life to late adulthood. The project also explores the legal and ethical dimensions of healthcare inequalities among age groups to uncover overlooked injustices.
Working in collaboration with NHS commissioners, healthcare providers, and patient and policy organisations, the project is working to develop and test a ‘stage-of-life sensitive’ approach to healthcare decision-making. This approach aims to be more responsive to healthcare needs across the lifespan and adaptable to different processes and regional policy contexts.
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Senior Researcher in Bioethics |
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
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Research Fellow |
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Associate Professor of Law, University of Reading |
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Oxford Biomedical Research Centre Ethics Fellow |
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Rachel Thompson Postdoctoral Researcher |
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Professor of Paediatrics and Child Population Health, Kings College London |
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