Former consultant in old age psychiatry Cambridge (b Bromley 1928; q Guy's Hospital, London, 1952; MD, FRCPsych), d 18 December 2003.
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Peter Brook was the first old age psychiatrist in Cambridge. He inherited numerous rambling wards at the old Fulbourn Hospital and founded the present thriving and much grown service. This included the development of integrated multidisciplinary community resource teams, long before the current vogue for interagency working. Always a supporter of research, he was instrumental in establishing the Hughes Hall project for later life, an epidemiological study of nearly 3000 over 75s in Cambridge. Although he developed myeloma soon after his retirement, he remained active as an organiser of the local branch of the University of the Third Age and with work on naval history. He leaves a wife, Joy; two children; and two grandsons.
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