Over the past few decades, the ageing of the population has led to profound changes in
fundamental aspects of how our society is organised. These include changes in family …

In The Lancet Healthy Longevity, Joanna Blodgett and colleagues1 provide important
evidence that frailty can be observed and measured in younger age groups (ie, in …

Research on the topic of healthy longevity tends to be dominated by morbidity and mortality
of noncommunicable diseases and their prevention. By contrast, there has been an …

Although frailty can be accompanied by increased health-related suffering, fully integrated
generalist and specialist palliative care are often forgotten necessities for frail older people …

can be positioned as the control group and be compared with novel treatment or strategy.
This trial should stand as a signal to the community that attention should be shifted to large …

The ageing of populations is poised to become the next global public health challenge.
During the next 5 years, for the first time in history, people aged 65 years and older in the …

but also to provide their health services and care in a more integrated way. The report
clearly recognises that informal, unsupported care by family members and friends cannot …

Socioeconomic inequalities are major health determinants, but could be leveraged more
efficiently to promote health and wellbeing on a large scale. 30 years ago, in the Whitehall …

The rapidly evolving field of longevity medicine focuses on identifying individual ageing
trajectories by determining the biological age over time and targeting ageing mechanisms to …

5 Adams WL, McIlvain HE, Lacy NL, et al. Primary care for elderly people: why do doctors
find it so hard? Gerontologist 2002; 42: 835–42. disorders have been included and how they …