Care of the Elderly
The Care of the Elderly directorate focuses upon providing high quality medical care for older people. As well as interests in the acute care of older people, our specialty has a keen focus upon maintaining health into old age, rehabilitation, the management and optimisation of age and ageing, and the relationship with chronic disease.
Care of the Elderly encompasses a broad range of disciplines involved in investigation and management of diseases of older people and the processes of ageing. Our services in Newcastle are considered to be of outstanding quality providing a high calibre service for the older people of Newcastle and in many areas acts as a regional expert referral centre.
Novel advances made by our clinical academics for example in understanding the pathophysiology of falls have led directly to changes in clinical practice underpinning our success in translational medicine.
There are excellent opportunities for postgraduate clinical training in all specialties in Care of the Elderly (Geriatric Medicine) including the largest Academic Clinical Fellowship and Lectureship programme in the UK, making the North East the only centre with run through academic training in Geriatric Medicine. Several senior staff contribute to national policy setting and quality assurance and some contribute to and edit major international textbooks in their discipline. Areas of particular research strength include falls, stroke, parkinson’s disease.
The clinical service interacts directly with high profile research via the strong links to the Institute of Cellular Medicine, Institute for Ageing and Health and the Biomedical Research Centre in Ageing.
Contact for Care of the Elderly:
Professor Julia Newton
julia.newton@nuth.nhs.uk
