Gill Livingston
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Royal Free Hospital
Gill Livingston | |
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| Alma mater | University of Glasgow |
| Occupation | Psychiatrist |
| Employer(s) | University College London Royal Free Hospital |
Gill Livingston is a British psychiatrist who is Professor of Psychiatry of Older People at University College London. Her research involves a life-course analysis of dementia risk and the development of strategies to delay or prevent dementia. She creates evidence-based interventions to improve the lives of people living with dementia and their families.
Livingston's grandmother emigrated from Eastern Europe to Scotland in the early 1900s. Her father was the first in her family to go to university.[1] Livingston studied medicine at the University of Glasgow. She specialised in psychiatry[2] after a placement in Friern Hospital. Livingston became interested in dementia during her work as clinical psychiatrist, where she observed the difference that family carers made to the prognosis of dementia patients.[1] This motivation to specialise in dementia strengthened after watching both her parents struggle with the condition; her father developed progressive supranuclear palsy and dementia in the 2000s and her mother in the 2010s.[1] Her first senior house officer position was at the Royal Free Hospital.[1]
