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.
And I just wanted to say a few words to just wrap up what we've heard today.
Just before you leave this morning, we heard, if you can think back that far, we had about population changes.
We had that we're living longer and that we're entering this phase of many people living with active ageing.
So a sense that actually people can age very well, people age in a very heterogeneous way,
and that that's that's great that our health systems are working to keep people living longer.
However, people also live with the sense of increased dependence and poor health conditions when they age.
And that that presents a challenge for us as doctors that we need to change the way we deliver services
so that we can offer integrated care that really needs meet the needs of individual patients.
So I think one of the speakers that is not about the historical picture is not about the buildings we've got or
our traditional professional silos is actually about thinking what do patients need and how can we deliver that?
And I think for us and for our generation particularly, that's the challenge we've got.
How can we change what we currently do? We need to provide services that are much more flexible and responsive to people's needs.
And we heard from Chris Graham about how thinking about patient experiences of care can really help us to develop different services.
When Marianne Talbot spoke after lunch and he heard about what her experiences were as a carer of somebody with dementia,
that really sort of brought home to me how patient experiences,
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.
The other thing I think I took away from Marion's talk was about the stories we heard,
stories about what it was like to look after her mum, what it was like to be a carer.
And that lingered a little bit with some of the clinicians who said that old age
psychiatry is is about the personality and the experience of the individual.
And it's certainly one of the reasons that I went into old age psychiatry is that actually I like the
stories of the people that I treat and I like sitting down to hear what has happened over their lives.
And how is that affecting the way that they're presenting with their mental illness later on in their lives?
Oh, they psychiatry. Then we've got stories.
We've got the need to be a good psychiatrist and to be a good clinician in terms of a medical condition as well,
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,
there is that integrated care and they approach that. As a psychiatrist, you might take to your patients.
There's a need as well in old age psychiatry for quite a rigorous intellectual approach.
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
a complex clinical problem and all the different facets of that and then how you can help people.
So clinical practise requires this intellectual approach.
And then this afternoon, we've heard a bit more about if you wanted to stretch your intellect, how else he could do that.
And research is definitely one of the ways of doing that. And we've heard that research is very relevant to your clinical practise.
So you need to know about the research basis to the conditions that are treated in order to provide better care for patients.
And actually getting involved in research can really complements the clinical career.
And Emma has talked about different opportunities in terms of funding and really the need for doctors to get involved in research.
And I think plasterwork, it really does blow me away.
I've had this similar talk before, but I mean, the scale of what is being done is just totally phenomenal.
A few years ago, if you did an imaging study and you had 10 cases and 10 controls, well, wow, that would be great.
And you get published in a really good journal. And now we're talking about a study with 100000 people.
And that's not going to be published by itself. That's going to be joined with a whole other cohort studies.
So we're really talking about big data, big networks, big, big collaborations.
And if we want to tackle some of these problems, which are not just UK wide but global,
I think that large scale approach is what we really need to think about.
So I hope you've enjoyed the day. I hope it has been interesting, very inspiring.
And you've had a chance to meet colleagues and peers and that it might make you think
about old age psychiatry in the future when you're making key career decisions.
I want to say a few thank you's just thank you. Health Education. England funded the day so very grateful to them.
And we've had support from the Royal College of Psychiatrists as well as.
Particular thank you to our speakers and only to left in the room now, but honestly, without you,
obviously the conference would be nothing and I've just been very impressed by the high quality of all the speakers.
We're very grateful to them. And so few sitting here.
And there've been a number of other people who've been involved in organising and supporting the conference.
And it's been great to have their help.
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,
I'm very happy for you to contact me. I'm Charlotte Allen.
It's like the OK to kick my email address is on the website.
I'm sure you could contact Sophie to. So do get in touch if there's anything else we could help with.
So thank you very much. Have a safe journey home and thank you for coming.