Ashton Fitzell

Policy Officer, Alzheimer’s Society

Ashton is a Policy Officer at Alzheimer’s Society, where she focuses on adult social care across England and Northern Ireland.

Ashton is deeply passionate about improving social care for people living with dementia and their families. Specialising in the social care workforce, improving the quality and uptake of dementia training, working to ensure everyone affected by dementia can access high-quality, personalised care. Ashton is a proud co-author of Alzheimer’s Society’s 2024 report, ‘Because we’re human too: why dementia training for care workers matters, and how to deliver it’.

Ashton’s professional career has been centered within the charity sector. Starting out as a Community Mental Health Worker, she worked closely with people with complex mental health needs. Ashton then moved into a role providing and assessing complex information and advice, specialising in social care legislation and holding the role of Social Care Lead Adviser before obtaining promotions to National Advice Line Manager and Quality and Performance Manager of a large national charity.

Ashton is driven by a close personal connection to dementia, which inspires and motivates her to write policy that can be mobilised to enact tangible, sustainable and impactful change, at a national and local level.