About Jane Barratt
The Arc of Ageing is written for you — someone who shapes how societies age: policymakers, advisors, advocates, and institutional leaders who understand the cost of delay.
It offers language, perspective, and conviction to those working within systems that resist change. Each piece translates complexity into clarity — making the invisible visible, naming what is uncomfortable, and acting on what matters.
Drawing on decades in global health and ageing policy and practice — on the front lines of human behaviour and science — Jane Barratt works to bridge the moral and the operational, connecting evidence to judgment, and judgment to action.
It is read by those who know that ageing is not a niche concern, but a measure of leadership and societal design.
The Arc of Ageing exists to help you lead with purpose — and to remind us all what is at stake when we fail to.