Understanding and predicting mortality and significant events in later life using routinely collected data
Dr Carys Pugh
Ageing and later life
People in the UK are living longer, but many older people have multiple health problems. The NHS and local authorities do not always provide joined-up or effective care to older people. Ensuring that care is targeted at those with the highest need is difficult. Ideally, we would provide preventive care to maximise people’s future independence, but that means we need to be able to identify the people most likely to lose their independence.
The aim of this project is to develop and test tools for predicting who is most likely to lose their independence or have other adverse outcomes. We...
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