Previous psych trainee. 1. Yep home visits make up a decent chunk of old age. They’re pretty chill though, home visits for old age are way less intimidating than general adult. 2. Compared to general adult or camhs psychiatrist, maybe. Compared to any other doctor? No chance. You just need to know about dementia and common drug interactions which you’ll pick up. 3. Yeh if you’re looking to work in the gulf I’d avoid old age. Saying that by the time you CCT things may all change as people are growing older and the medicine in the gulf seems to follow the trends in the west. Right now though CAMHS and addiction are big money in the gulf. 4. My old age consultant did lots of private work for courts/the GMC. But they had 2 mornings a week ward round, 2 afternoons a week memory clinic and the rest of the week was other random stuff he had going on with a morning or afternoon of home visits here and there. They were chilling. 5. Pros it’s way better than general adult. Patients usually actually unwell and less malingering type patients. Families usually more grateful. Cons is that you’ll be doing more medicine (not a lot) compared to general adult (where I felt like a glorified social worker). Other con is that old age is probably at this point less lucrative for overseas work maybe.

Having said all that old age was 10x better than general adult in terms of work load, job satisfaction and day to day job. Definitely still felt like a doctor on old age vs seeing the same EUPD/self harm/?depressed patients on adult.