Managing cancer symptoms with older people living with and without frailty

19/11/2024 1:30 pm to 19/11/2024 3:00 pm

Event Details

Enhancing Care for Older People Webinar Series

We are excited to announce our 32nd EnCOP education webinar in our series linked to the Enhanced Care for Older People Competency Framework (EnCOP)

Date: Tuesday 19th November 2024

1.30pm-3.00pm

Title: Managing cancer symptoms with older people living with and without frailty

Speaker:

Dr Dan Jones

GP Eden Unit, Penrith hospital. Academic GP, University of Leeds. Team Doctor, Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS FT

Biography: Dan has worked both at Hull York Medical School as an academic clinical fellow, and at University of Leeds as an academic clinical lecturer, where his research focus has been the early diagnosis of cancer and, more latterly the diagnosis of cancer in frail older adults. Dan spent four years on research focussing on the controversies in older frail adults, including the barriers to presentation to primary care, and the difficulties in recognising and investigating cancer symptoms in general practice. Dan also conducted qualitative work with older adults who had undergone cancer investigations and how frailty scores impacted time to diagnosis in a big data set. His clinical work is on a frail elderly ward in a community hospital. In his free time Dan is a keen fell runner and volunteers for Patterdale Fell Rescue Team.

 

This session is FREE and open to all!

Spaces can be booked via [email protected]