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Well, thank you very much. You've done well to make it to the end of the day, and I can feel like a long day by the time you get to this stage.

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And I just wanted to say a few words to just wrap up what we've heard today.

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Just before you leave this morning, we heard, if you can think back that far, we had about population changes.

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We had that we're living longer and that we're entering this phase of many people living with active ageing.

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So a sense that actually people can age very well, people age in a very heterogeneous way,

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and that that's that's great that our health systems are working to keep people living longer.

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However, people also live with the sense of increased dependence and poor health conditions when they age.

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And that that presents a challenge for us as doctors that we need to change the way we deliver services

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so that we can offer integrated care that really needs meet the needs of individual patients.

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So I think one of the speakers that is not about the historical picture is not about the buildings we've got or

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our traditional professional silos is actually about thinking what do patients need and how can we deliver that?

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And I think for us and for our generation particularly, that's the challenge we've got.

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How can we change what we currently do? We need to provide services that are much more flexible and responsive to people's needs.

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And we heard from Chris Graham about how thinking about patient experiences of care can really help us to develop different services.

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When Marianne Talbot spoke after lunch and he heard about what her experiences were as a carer of somebody with dementia,

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that really sort of brought home to me how patient experiences,

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carer experiences can really be useful in terms of developing new ways of doing things and how we can learn from their experiences to improve things.

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The other thing I think I took away from Marion's talk was about the stories we heard,

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stories about what it was like to look after her mum, what it was like to be a carer.

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And that lingered a little bit with some of the clinicians who said that old age

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psychiatry is is about the personality and the experience of the individual.

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And it's certainly one of the reasons that I went into old age psychiatry is that actually I like the

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stories of the people that I treat and I like sitting down to hear what has happened over their lives.

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And how is that affecting the way that they're presenting with their mental illness later on in their lives?

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Oh, they psychiatry. Then we've got stories.

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We've got the need to be a good psychiatrist and to be a good clinician in terms of a medical condition as well,

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so that you can think about polypharmacy, you can think about the physical health needs, and that on a very individual level with a patient,

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there is that integrated care and they approach that. As a psychiatrist, you might take to your patients.

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There's a need as well in old age psychiatry for quite a rigorous intellectual approach.

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And that's about clinical practise. It's about the ethical and legal aspects and about how you interact with people to really think about

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a complex clinical problem and all the different facets of that and then how you can help people.

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So clinical practise requires this intellectual approach.

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And then this afternoon, we've heard a bit more about if you wanted to stretch your intellect, how else he could do that.

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And research is definitely one of the ways of doing that. And we've heard that research is very relevant to your clinical practise.

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So you need to know about the research basis to the conditions that are treated in order to provide better care for patients.

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And actually getting involved in research can really complements the clinical career.

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And Emma has talked about different opportunities in terms of funding and really the need for doctors to get involved in research.

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And I think plasterwork, it really does blow me away.

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I've had this similar talk before, but I mean, the scale of what is being done is just totally phenomenal.

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A few years ago, if you did an imaging study and you had 10 cases and 10 controls, well, wow, that would be great.

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And you get published in a really good journal. And now we're talking about a study with 100000 people.

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And that's not going to be published by itself. That's going to be joined with a whole other cohort studies.

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So we're really talking about big data, big networks, big, big collaborations.

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And if we want to tackle some of these problems, which are not just UK wide but global,

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I think that large scale approach is what we really need to think about.

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So I hope you've enjoyed the day. I hope it has been interesting, very inspiring.

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And you've had a chance to meet colleagues and peers and that it might make you think

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about old age psychiatry in the future when you're making key career decisions.

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I want to say a few thank you's just thank you. Health Education. England funded the day so very grateful to them.

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And we've had support from the Royal College of Psychiatrists as well as.

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Particular thank you to our speakers and only to left in the room now, but honestly, without you,

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obviously the conference would be nothing and I've just been very impressed by the high quality of all the speakers.

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We're very grateful to them. And so few sitting here.

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And there've been a number of other people who've been involved in organising and supporting the conference.

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And it's been great to have their help.

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The last thing is that if you've got any questions after the conference about careers in psychiatry and how you wanted to ask and forgot to do,

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I'm very happy for you to contact me. I'm Charlotte Allen.

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It's like the OK to kick my email address is on the website.

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I'm sure you could contact Sophie to. So do get in touch if there's anything else we could help with.

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So thank you very much. Have a safe journey home and thank you for coming.