What needs to change: Goals for clinical and social management and research in the next 60 years

While substantial progress over the past 60 years has enabled a greater proportion of persons with epilepsy (PWE) to live without seizures and treatment-related side effects, numerous challenges in the diagnosis, treatment and social management of epilepsy remain to be solved over the next 60 years so that no person with epilepsy is limited by any aspect of the condition. This achievement is within our reach, but will require professional and lay epilepsy organisations to work closely together to ensure that clinical, scientific and sociological advances are made and applied to the medical and social management of epilepsy. (C) 2010 British Epilepsy Association. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.