Longevity Medicine: What You Need to Know About Healthy Ageing
Does society have a healthy approach to managing health as we age? In this session, we'll meet and discuss the field of longevity medicine. It will feel workshop in focus with two break outs, designed to get you thinking about what you already know and understand. We'll seek to inform you through an informal interview with Peter. By the end, you'll have a clearer idea of what we know in this field. We'll have discussed what can be done to promote quality of life for longer and we'll get you to think of ways to adapt and make some changes in your own world.
Like all Brave Starts events, this will be a mixture of break out groups and discussion.
By the end you'll have:
A clearer understanding of longevity medicine
An understanding of the evidence there is currently and the best things you can do to try and ensure a better quality of life for longer
Made connections with people also interested in field
Had chance to ask your own questions
A chance to reflect on how you can adapt your own behaviour and habits
About Peter
Dr Peter Scriven is a seasoned clinician with experience in medicine, surgery, surgical oncology and primary care. Peter also has an extensive research background in the field of proteomics.
He has built and turned around large GP practices and delivered several large digital projects into the healthcare space.
He was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners in recognition of his work in health leadership, data and health inequalities.
After 25 years in the NHS, he left having become disillusioned with the lack of quality leadership and ever worsening standards of care. He is now free to pursue other opportunities around his passion for longevity medicine and developing the type of health care that he believes citizens should be able to receive.
Peter is a husband, dad and dog dad, and a keen wildlife and wild places photographer. He is also an inveterate tinkerer of all things mechanical and electronic and has collected more books than he has time to read!