Journal
AGE AND AGEING
Volume 48, Issue 3, Pages 316-319Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afy220
Keywords
translational research; academic geriatric medicine; capacity building; older people
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- National Institute for Health Research, UK
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Academic geriatric medicine activity lags behind the scale of clinical activity in the specialty. A meeting of UK academic geriatricians was convened in March 2018 to consider causes and solutions to this problem. The meeting highlighted a lack of research-active clinicians, a perception that research is not central to the practice of geriatric medicine and a failure to translate discovery science to clinical studies. Solutions proposed included better support for early-career clinical researchers, schemes to encourage non-University clinicians to be research-active, wider collaboration with organ specialists to broaden the funding envelope, and the need to co-produce research programmes with end-users. Solutions to grow academic geriatric medicine are essential if we are to provide the best care for the growing older population.
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