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>Study Personnel >Jane Fleming
Dr Jane Fleming Senior Research Associate, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CLAHRC Project nurse / Study co-ordinator, Cambridge City over-75s Cohort (CC75C) study |
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The CC75C study, one of the longest-running observational studies of ageing, was started in the mid-1980s by University of Cambridge researchers jointly with local general practices. Its rare data collection includes almost a quarter century’s follow-up of a representative sample of the “oldest old” population. This is further enhanced by biological resources including tissue bank holdings from its brain donor programme. Enquiries are welcome from potential collaborators or students interested in developing new research that links with the study’s major themes – healthy ageing and changing cognition and function in older old age. Jane joined the University of Cambridge’s Department of Public Health and Primary Care in 2000 for training in epidemiology and statistics from a clinical and research background primarily in nursing older people, osteoporosis and fracture prevention. For her health services research fellowship doctorate on the epidemiology of falls in advanced old age she expanded the CC75C study’s focus to include a prospective study of falls amongst over-90-year-olds. On-going work includes fall-related injuries and other adverse sequelae, resultant service use, transitions to long-term care, the role of functional assessment in fall risk prediction, the potential role of assistive technology in fall alerting for the cognitively impaired, and the neuropathological correlates of falling in old age. At present she leads a project combining qualitative and quantitative methodologies to examine end-of-life care issues from the perspective of very old people and their carers. This project Living and dying in extreme old age is a collaboration between the CC75C study and colleagues in the General Practice and Primary Care Research Unit. Research in progress includes the characterisation of cognitive impairment, physical disability, emotional well-being and self-rated health for the very old in their last year of life; their formal and informal support, service use and place of care trajectories; and quality of life at the end of life from both older old people’s and their carers’ perspectives. As a senior research associate for the Mental Health and Disability in Old Age theme, Jane works with theme leads Dr Tom Dening, Dr Stephen Barclay and Professor Carol Brayne for the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CLAHRC. This is one of the National Institute for Health Research’s Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care, with a focus on mental health and a special interest in the needs of the growing numbers of “older old” people and those with dementia. This new programme of work, co-ordinated from the Institute of Public Health, will build on existing projects and further develop collaboration between researchers and clinical practitioners in health service delivery. The theme includes end of life care and will be evaluating current and future developments in local provision. Click here for recent publications
J. Fleming, F.E. Matthews, M. Chatfield and C. Brayne. Fleming J, Zhao E, O'Connor DW, Pollitt PA, Brayne C, CC75C study collaboration. Fleming J, Brayne C, CC75C collaborative. Brayne C, Richardson K, Matthews FE, Fleming J, Hunter S, Xuereb JH, Paykel E, Mukaetova-Ladinska EB, Huppert FA, O’Sullivan A, Dening T, and the Cambridge City over-75s Cohort (CC75C) study neuropathology collaboration Jane Fleming, Jun Zhao, Morag Farquhar, Carol Brayne, Stephen Barclay, and the Cambridge City over-75s Cohort (CC75C) study collaboration Zhao J, Barclay S, Farquhar M, Kinmonth AL, Brayne C and Fleming J for the Cambridge City over-75s Cohort (CC75C) study collaboration |
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