This editorial introduces Julia Johnson and Joanna Bornat as the new Review Editors of the journal. They are both full-time academic staff at the School of Health and Social Welfare at The Open University (OU) in Milton Keynes to the north of London. They are very well known among British social gerontology and social welfare researchers and have exceptional writing and editorial experience – even more than the high average for Open University ‘distance teachers’. Joanna has been joint editor of Oral History for twenty-five years and, with Julia, has been a co-editor of Generations Review, the other journal of the British Society of Gerontology.