scholarly journals Undergraduate Training in Geriatric Medicine in the United Kingdom

2006 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. A. Ogundipe
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Geriatric Medicine ◽  
Undergraduate Training ◽  
The United Kingdom

Undergraduate education in geriatric medicine

2001 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 295-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mujtaba Hasan
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Older People ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Undergraduate Education ◽  
Geriatric Medicine ◽  
Age Group ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
Care For Older People

In the developed, as well as developing countries, there is an immediate challenge to ensure an adequate supply of health professionals trained in providing care for older people to meet the needs of increasing numbers. Currently 20% of the population of the United Kingdom (UK) is over 60 – 12 million people. By 2031 this proportion will be nearly a third – 18.6 million people. The largest increases are anticipated among the over-85 age group, from 0.8 million in 1987 to 1.4 million in 2025. In Europe the number of people aged over 80 years will double within the next 25 to 30 years. It is estimated that there will be more than 1.2 billion elderly people in the world by the year 2025 – three-quarters of them living in the developing countries.

scholarly journals Survey of undergraduate teaching of old age psychiatry in the United Kingdom

1993 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 209-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabrielle M. Faire ◽  
Cornelius L. E. Katona
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Undergraduate Teaching ◽  
Undergraduate Training ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
People With Mental Illness ◽  
Old Age Psychiatry ◽  
Care Of Elderly ◽  
Joint Report

Old age psychiatry has been steadily developing as a specialty in the United Kingdom. In 1978 the Royal College of Psychiatrists established a specialist section for old age psychiatry, and since October 1989 it has been formally recognised as a sub-specialty of psychiatry. In 1989 the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Psychiatrists published a joint report entitled ‘Care of Elderly People with Mental Illness’ in which recommendations were made about both postgraduate and undergraduate training.

scholarly journals The emergence and utilisation of frailty in the United Kingdom: a contemporary biopolitical practice

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 695-712 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Tomkow
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Older People ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Geriatric Medicine ◽  
Adverse Outcomes ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Impact

AbstractFrailty has recently emerged as a dominant concept against a backdrop of media and governmental narratives that frame the growing ageing population as an economic threat to the current configuration of health care in the United Kingdom (UK). Despite frailty's popularity amongst geriatricians and policy makers, the concept faces resistance from other health-care professionals and older people themselves. This paper draws on the Foucauldian idea of biopower; by suggesting that the contemporary emergence and utilisation of frailty represents a biopolitical practice a number or critical observations are made. First, despite biomedical experts acknowledging ambiguities in the definition of frailty, the concept is presented as a truth discourse. This is driven by the ability of frailty measurements to predict risk of costly adverse outcomes; the capability of frailty scores to enumerate complex needs; and the scientific legitimacy frailty affords to geriatric medicine. Consequently, frailty has become pervasive, knowable and measurable. Second, the routine delineation between frail and robust objectifies older people, and can be said to benefit those making the diagnosis over those being labelled frail, with the latter becoming disempowered. Last, studies show that frailty is associated with increasing wealth inequalities in the UK; however, experts’ suggested management of frailty shifts the focus of responsibility away from ideologically driven structural inequalities towards the frail older person, attempting to encourage individuals to modify lifestyle choices. This neglects the association between lifestyle opportunities and socio-economic deprivation, and the impact of long-term poverty on health. These observations, set against the contemporary political climate of economic austerity, cuts to public services and rationalisation of health resources, bring the urgency of a critical consideration of frailty to the fore.

Undergraduate training in rheumatology in the United Kingdom

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
PHILIP H. N. WOOD ◽  
R. T. BENN
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Undergraduate Training ◽  
The United Kingdom
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