Hello, everybody, and welcome to Wolfson College and to this conference on ageing and psychiatry.
I'm Charlotte Allen. I'm a clinical lecturer in AIDS in old age psychiatry and safety.
Berman, who's sitting here at the front, is also a trainee in old age psychiatry.
And we're very pleased that you've come today.
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.
I'd like to say a few words about why we decided to organise this conference.
Sophie and I are very happy in our choice of careers and really enjoy working in old age psychiatry.
Find it very interesting and very rewarding, but we suspect that our data character is not necessarily well understood and we wanted to showcase
some of the diversity of the speciality to try and encourage more people to think about it as a career.
There's lots of relevant to it, as you can see today and today, the programme.
We're going to start off by focussing on the context of ageing.
So thinking about why demographic trends mean that choosing to work in this field is actually very important and very relevant.
Then after coffee, we're going to hear from three consultant psychiatrists talking about different clinical
issues and helping us to think about that diversity of clinical work in old age psychiatry.
This afternoon, we've got a slightly different focus. We're going to hear about broader opportunities, first of all,
about engaging with carers and the voluntary sector and then thinking about academic careers and research,
how you can get funding, what sort of opportunities that are in the field.
So I hope you'll be a good day if you're new to Oxford or to wolfsbane.
It seems like a good day to explore a little bit. The sun shining and the gardens here are very nice.
So if you get a chance to walk around the gardens, then please feel free to do that.