Older People
older people
Can we have jam today and jam tomorrow ?Improving outcomes for older people living with mental illness using applied and translational research
This talk will examine how approaches such as ‘big data’ and new ways of delivering clinical trials can improve current services for older people with mental illness (jam today) and identify and deliver new treatments in the future (jam tomorrow).
Population studies and ageing brains, in a time of COVID
This presentation will include a brief resume of research in older populations led from Cambridge that have informed current clinical understanding and policy regarding services and prevention for and of dementia. These population studies have more recently been ‘re-purposed’ with enthusiasm from participants into a trial platform, and this also has enabled ongoing follow-up by telephone during the COVID pandemic. Although there are no formal outputs from these latter developments general impressions will be shared.