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Hansard to 11 November 2026 · 31,429 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
All voices01 Voice · Sector leader · Elderly care & frailty
Katherine Crawford: no photograph is held, so the sector leader plate is shown instead.
Sector leader
Katherine Crawford
Chief Executive, Age Scotland
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press citations on 1 topic since 5 May 2026 · last quoted 7 Sept 2026
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Katherine Crawford: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- Chief Executive, Age Scotland
- Quoted on
- Elderly care & frailty
- Tracked press citations
- 2
- Most recently quoted
- 7 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 5 May 2026
04 The signal · where Katherine Crawford sits on elderly care & frailty
Ranked 8= of 100 voices quoted in the press on elderly care & frailty, level with 35 others on 2 citations.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
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Caroline AbrahamsSector leaderCharity Director, Age UK7 - 2
Professor Victoria Tzortziou BrownClinicianChair of Council, Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP)6 - 3=
Dr. Kenneth RockwoodAcademicProfessor of Medicine (Geriatric Medicine and Neurology) and Clinical Research Professor of Frailty and Aging; Senior Medical Director, Frailty and Elder Care Network, Nova Scotia Health, Dalhousie University (Division of Geriatric Medicine) and Nova Scotia Health4 - 8=
Dr Joshua HareAcademicDirector, Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute; Senior Associate Dean for Experimental and Cellular Therapeutics; Louis Lemberg Professor of Medicine (Cardiology); Professor of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine2 - 8=Anna WhittakerAcademicProfessor, University of Stirling Centre for Research and Innovation in Sport (CRIS)2
- 8=Katherine CrawfordSector leaderChief Executive, Age Scotland2
- 8=Deb GompertzClinicianDr, honorary secretary and vice president for policy, British Geriatrics Society2
- 8=Christina HayesAcademicAssistant Professor, Ageing Research Centre, University of Limerick2
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05 On the record · press
What Katherine Crawford has said
By outlet · linked articles
- caremanagementmatters.co.uk1
- scottishdailyexpress.co.uk1
Where Katherine Crawford has been quoted
- 01Toolkit developed to help design digital products for older adults - Care Management Matterscaremanagementmatters.co.uk · 7 Sept 2026
- 02Don't leave Scotland's old folk out in the cold, Holyrood party leaders toldscottishdailyexpress.co.uk · 5 May 2026
Verbatim
“As a result, we believe more older people will be able to benefit from this fun, social way of improving strength, balance and confidence, helping them to stay active and independent for longer.”
“There is no doubt that the needs of older people have slipped well down the political agenda despite the serious challenges so many face and the growing size of this age group in Scotland.”
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Chief executives, directors and spokespeople of trade bodies, representative associations and charities speaking for the sector. Citations are counted by an automated scan of UK press coverage and may be incomplete. Roles, biographies and contact details are researched and human-reviewed before they appear here; anything not yet reviewed is simply absent rather than shown unverified. This profile was last updated on 12 Nov 2026. See the methodology for how this page is built, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.