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Hello, everybody, and welcome to Wolfson College and to this conference on ageing and psychiatry.

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I'm Charlotte Allen. I'm a clinical lecturer in AIDS in old age psychiatry and safety.

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Berman, who's sitting here at the front, is also a trainee in old age psychiatry.

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And we're very pleased that you've come today.

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And we hope it's going to be an interesting and a varied programme which might inspire you to do old age psychiatry in the future.

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I'd like to say a few words about why we decided to organise this conference.

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Sophie and I are very happy in our choice of careers and really enjoy working in old age psychiatry.

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Find it very interesting and very rewarding, but we suspect that our data character is not necessarily well understood and we wanted to showcase

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some of the diversity of the speciality to try and encourage more people to think about it as a career.

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There's lots of relevant to it, as you can see today and today, the programme.

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We're going to start off by focussing on the context of ageing.

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So thinking about why demographic trends mean that choosing to work in this field is actually very important and very relevant.

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Then after coffee, we're going to hear from three consultant psychiatrists talking about different clinical

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issues and helping us to think about that diversity of clinical work in old age psychiatry.

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This afternoon, we've got a slightly different focus. We're going to hear about broader opportunities, first of all,

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about engaging with carers and the voluntary sector and then thinking about academic careers and research,

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how you can get funding, what sort of opportunities that are in the field.

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So I hope you'll be a good day if you're new to Oxford or to wolfsbane.

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It seems like a good day to explore a little bit. The sun shining and the gardens here are very nice.

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So if you get a chance to walk around the gardens, then please feel free to do that.