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2016 Wakley Prize: connections and memories
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China—a call for papers In September, 2017, The Lancet will dedicate a weekly issue to health care and research in China to coincide with the centenary of Peking Union Medical College; it will be our eighth such themed issue since 2008. While we welcome submissions from China throughout the year and across all Lancet titles, the editors invite submissions of high-quality research from China—or from research teams working on health in China—for this issue in particular. Submissions are invited on all aspects of health science including, but not limited to, non-communicable disease control, mental health, elderly health care, child health, and health-care reform in China. Priority will be
given to randomised controlled trials that advance the evidence base for prevention and treatment of disease. We also welcome studies that have the potential to change clinical and public health practice in China and other countries at a similar stage of development. Please submit manuscripts through our online ees submission system before March 24, 2017, and mention in your cover letter that the submission is in response to this call for papers.
To submit a manuscript see http://ees.elsevier.com/ thelancet/
Helena Hui Wang, William Summerskill The Lancet, Beijing 100738, China (HHW); and The Lancet, London EC2Y 5AS, UK (WS)
2016 Wakley Prize: connections and memories “We share the same space, but not the same time”, writes Naaheed Mukadam about a patient with dementia in her essay “Stay with me”. Naaheed’s essay was selected by the Lancet editorial team as the winning essay for the 2016 Wakley Prize. Her essay examines the way dementia disrupts life not only for the patient but also for the family and carers. “I have seen so many patients make their journeys from noticing their first symptoms of memory loss, to getting a dementia diagnosis and treatment. I have often watched helplessly as they drift away, lost beyond the point at which medicine can help. The families who accompany patients on their journeys have shown me how much more there is to dementia care. Sometimes the best care we can provide for our patients is to look after their carers”, she writes. The essay is a moving meditation on human connections—between a loving couple and also between patient, carer, and physician. Naaheed writes of the importance of “love, compassion, and the remembrance of things past”. Naaheed Mukadam is an old age psychiatrist who works in Liaison Psychiatry at University College
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Hospital in London, UK, while also doing a PhD at University College London on how to encourage south Asian people to seek help earlier for dementia. When asked about the motivation for her essay, she said that the essay grew out of the rich life stories that emerge in her encounters with patients and their families: “I have been moved by all the patients I have seen and how their families stay with them as their dementia progresses. In dementia, emotional connections and memories remain long after the meanings of words have faded, and that can give families and patients hope and the chance to continue living a fulfilling life.” It was a pleasure to read the wide-ranging selection of original essays that were submitted for the Wakley Prize this year, and we thank readers for taking part in the essay competition. We hope you enjoy reading the 2016 Wakley Prize essay—you can also listen to Naaheed read her essay in the accompanying podcast.
Naaheed Mukadam See Wakley Essay page 3085 See Online for podcast
Joanna Palmer, Philippa Berman, Rhiannon Howe The Lancet, London EC2Y 5AS, UK
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China—a call for papers In September, 2017, The Lancet will dedicate a weekly issue to health care and research in China to coincide with the centenary of Peking Union Medical College; it will be our eighth such themed issue since 2008. While we welcome submissions from China throughout the year and across all Lancet titles, the editors invite submissions of high-quality research from China—or from research teams working on health in China—for this issue in particular. Submissions are invited on all aspects of health science including, but not limited to, non-communicable disease control, mental health, elderly health care, child health, and health-care reform in China. Priority will be
given to randomised controlled trials that advance the evidence base for prevention and treatment of disease. We also welcome studies that have the potential to change clinical and public health practice in China and other countries at a similar stage of development. Please submit manuscripts through our online ees submission system before March 24, 2017, and mention in your cover letter that the submission is in response to this call for papers.
To submit a manuscript see http://ees.elsevier.com/ thelancet/
Helena Hui Wang, William Summerskill The Lancet, Beijing 100738, China (HHW); and The Lancet, London EC2Y 5AS, UK (WS)
2016 Wakley Prize: connections and memories “We share the same space, but not the same time”, writes Naaheed Mukadam about a patient with dementia in her essay “Stay with me”. Naaheed’s essay was selected by the Lancet editorial team as the winning essay for the 2016 Wakley Prize. Her essay examines the way dementia disrupts life not only for the patient but also for the family and carers. “I have seen so many patients make their journeys from noticing their first symptoms of memory loss, to getting a dementia diagnosis and treatment. I have often watched helplessly as they drift away, lost beyond the point at which medicine can help. The families who accompany patients on their journeys have shown me how much more there is to dementia care. Sometimes the best care we can provide for our patients is to look after their carers”, she writes. The essay is a moving meditation on human connections—between a loving couple and also between patient, carer, and physician. Naaheed writes of the importance of “love, compassion, and the remembrance of things past”. Naaheed Mukadam is an old age psychiatrist who works in Liaison Psychiatry at University College
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Hospital in London, UK, while also doing a PhD at University College London on how to encourage south Asian people to seek help earlier for dementia. When asked about the motivation for her essay, she said that the essay grew out of the rich life stories that emerge in her encounters with patients and their families: “I have been moved by all the patients I have seen and how their families stay with them as their dementia progresses. In dementia, emotional connections and memories remain long after the meanings of words have faded, and that can give families and patients hope and the chance to continue living a fulfilling life.” It was a pleasure to read the wide-ranging selection of original essays that were submitted for the Wakley Prize this year, and we thank readers for taking part in the essay competition. We hope you enjoy reading the 2016 Wakley Prize essay—you can also listen to Naaheed read her essay in the accompanying podcast.
Naaheed Mukadam See Wakley Essay page 3085 See Online for podcast
Joanna Palmer, Philippa Berman, Rhiannon Howe The Lancet, London EC2Y 5AS, UK
2969