CARICE Ageing and Long-term Research Seminars - July 2024
You can join the seminar via teams here or click the link in the right hand column
If you would like to have a monthly invitation in your calendar, please email victoria.vazquez@kcl.ac.uk
Dr Nathan Cheetham
Senior Postdoctoral Data Scientist
Department of Twin Research
King’s College London
Talk title: “Did the Chief Medical Officer's 2023 report focus too much on rural older adults?”
Chris Whitty’s latest annual report 2023 presents an incomplete and skewed picture of the geography of older people in England. While the CMO report suggested there was a greater concentration of older people and so health care need in rural areas, we use Census 2021 data to show that there are many more older people in urban areas in absolute terms. Furthermore, these urban-dwelling older adults are in worse health. We’ll discuss the implications for future health care provision, and there will be colourful maps too!
Dr Josh Foster
Lecturer in Environmental Physiology
Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
Talk title: "The clinical importance of heat exposure in the context of climate change and ageing."
In the context of heat exposure and climate change, the United Kingdom is uniquely placed as one of the most vulnerable developed nations in the world. This talk will discuss the current knowledge of which populations are most at risk, and urgent research gaps to mitigate this health threat into the future.
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