Prof Gordon Wilcock is Vice President for Academic Affairs at the British Geriatrics Society, is Emeritus Professor of Geratology, University of Oxford.
A collection of 10 Age and Ageing papers is free to view on the journal website.
Concern has been expressed for a long while about the lack of older people included in clinical trials. However, the inclusion of older people in research in general is a subject worthy of attention. There are many reasons why it is sometimes difficult to recruit people over 70 into research. Some of these are self-evident, e.g. the presence of co-morbidities leading to travel difficulties, reluctance to take on something that may be onerous, cultural divisions, language barriers, research skills capacity, a greater risk of ill health, and the reluctance of family members to support an elderly relative in a research project. Continue reading
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