GEORGE IAIN CARPENTER
BIOGRAPHY
Iain Carpenter, MD, FRCP is Professor of Human Aging, Associate Director of the Centre for Health Service Studies at the University of Kent and Consultant Physician at the East Kent Hospitals Trust in Canterbury. From 1981 to 1995 he was a consultant Geriatrician in Winchester where, in 1990, he established a Rehabilitation Medicine Service and, from 1993, was Clinical Director for Medicine. In 1995 he moved to his current post to develop Health Services Research in hospital, institutional and community care of older people. He recently led an OECD review of the safety of older people in Sweden as part of the OECD Risk Management/Futures programme. He is Clinical Lead on Records Standards at the Health Informatics Unit of the Royal College of Physicians in London.
His research and numerous publications have included screening the elderly in the community, evaluation of home care services in Europe, resource use casemix for the NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre, NHS funding and quality of care of residents of nursing homes, cross-national comparisons of nursing home care and the evaluation of intermediate care.
He is a founding member of interRAI, an international not-for-profit corporation. Its Fellows and Associate Fellows seek to improve care of the elderly world-wide by encouraging adoption of standardised assessment methods. The group is committed to developing assessment tools and undertaking cross-national studies, and has contributed to the work of the WHO and OECD.
He is a founder of RAI-UK, a UK based charity to further the work of interRAI in the UK. interRAI-UK works with the support of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, undertaking research and influencing policy development with all relevant stake-holders.
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