Living Well 2026
Funds UK research helping people live well after an arthritis diagnosis or treatment.
Arthritis UK expects the internal submission process to take real time before the external deadline: applicants have to get reviewers and signatories inside their own institution into the grant management system to give their approvals before the portal closes, not just have the lead researcher click submit. The charity is looking for two kinds of outcome in particular: helping patients make bette…
The call funds applied health and social care research on helping people live well after an arthritis diagnosis or treatment, addressing health inequalities and the shift of care into the community. It wants proposals that weigh the long-term physical, psychological and social impact of arthritis across the life course, with particular interest in the transition from childhood-onset arthritis into adulthood, covering self-management, non-drug and non-surgical approaches, and remote monitoring that avoids digital exclusion.
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