DICKENS AND HIS OLDER PEOPLE: Transitional, Middle and Later Novels (1842–1870)
SUBTITLEDAVID COPPERFIELD — PART ONE: Contextual Overview
DATE30 April 2026
Contributing to research in literary gerontology and social history.
Advising on care sector reform and elder rights.
Developing best practices for protecting older adults.
Expert contributions to conferences and university modules.
Organisations need advisers who have built systems, not just studied them. Dr Mervyn Eastman co-founded Change AGEnts and later left to co-found and become a Director of the Later Life Audio and Radio Co-operative. LLARC seeks to democratise the voices of older people through audio and radio.
His forty-year trajectory spans frontline practice, Whitehall policy formulation, and academic research, a combination that eliminates the gap between theory and implementation.
Dr Eastman diagnoses structural failures in care delivery, designs proportionate interventions, and equips teams to execute them. Partners can gain access to a strategist who has trained regulators, advised on elder abuse prevention, and influenced national standards. The return is policy that holds up to audit, practice that holds up to pressure, and outcomes that hold up to scrutiny.