Creative Lives: Older people, healthcare provision and access in ageing societies

“Creative Lives”, a podcast which opens provocative conversations, experimenting with big ideas and local practices. Here is Podcast 4, with the topic: “Older people: Healthcare provision and access in ageing societies”. Our speakers are Neel Desai and Veronica Franklin Gould. Neel Desai is a PhD research candidate at UCL School of Pharmacy. He is a registered pharmacist, who graduated from the School with a first-class honours Masters of Pharmacy degree, successfully completed his pre-registration year in hospital and now he works as a locum community pharmacist. Neel returned to the School, working in Advanced Therapeutics and Nanomedicines. He currently focuses on the use of data to inform the design of age-appropriate medicines. Veronica Franklin Gould FRSA founded and is the president of “Arts 4 Dementia”. She leads its social prescribing programme, which empowers people at the onset of dementia, to preserve their brain health through the joy of culture, creativity and wellbeing activity. Her project, “Reawakening the Mind” won the London 2012 Inspire Mark and Positive Breakthrough Award, in the Mental Health Dementia Awards. The presenter is Lorna Collins. The podcast is produced by Grand Challenges and published by UCL Minds. The editing is by Nina Quach, and the music is by Tim Moor. Transcript and more information on https://www.ucl.ac.uk/grand-challenges/creative-lives-episode-4-older-people-healthcare-provision-and-access-ageing-societies