Tag Archives: ageing

Dick Sainsbury has decades of experience in geriatric medicine – first as a medical officer, then as a consultant physician, and more recently as a researcher. His new book All Experience is an Arch, brings together all his knowledge in a collection of writing about geriatric medicine, older people and …

We are already starting to reimagine life in a post COVID-19 world, and this includes an opportunity to transform how we care for older people, professionalise the care sector and identify new products and programmes that enable ageing-in-place and health longevity.

One of the most common questions about dementia is: is it a normal part ageing? And the answer is no!

After years of research, biologist Elizabeth Blackburn and her colleagues – who won the 2009 Nobel Prize for medicine for their discovery – concluded that we can primarily blame ageing on our chromosomes. She explains that all the cells in our bodies carry chromosomes that are capped at either end …