Joanna Elson CBE: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- Chief Executive of Independent Age
- Quoted on
- Elderly care & frailty
- Press citations held
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 29 Sept 2026
“Our social security system was designed as a safety net for all of us but the evidence is clear, it is failing older people in poverty. Money that has been set aside is not reaching the older people who need it and at a time with increasing costs, the impact of this is devastating.”
Where Joanna Elson CBE has been quoted
- New research: total take up of state support would reduce pensioner poverty by 15% – The NENnen.press · 29 Sept 2026
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