The burden of musculoskeletal diseases is increasing. Dr Ara Nazarian tells us more about the issues surrounding this and how care can be improved in the USA. Read the full paper: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(25)00026-1/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_Jun_25_lanhl Also discussed, the ecological study in The Lancet Regional Health Americas: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanam/article/PIIS2667-193X(23)00235-1/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_Jun_25...
Jun 03, 2025•8 min
Socioeconomic status impacts the onset and duration of severe disabilities, but what does this means for public health policy? Andrew Kingston (Newcastle University, UK) talks to Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet Healthy Longevity Philippa Harris about his study on socioeconomic inequalities in disability-free life expectancy in England. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(25)00019-4/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_14-04-25_lanhl Continue this ...
Apr 15, 2025•35 min
Miles Witham discusses his trial on the use of metformin to improve physical performance in older adults with sarcopenia and prefrailty or frailty. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(25)00014-5/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lanhl Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn.com/company/t...
Mar 28, 2025•18 min
Professor Harish Nair and Durga Kulkarni (University of Edinburgh) discuss their systematic review and meta-analysis on the global burden of human metapneumovirus-associated respiratory infections in older adults. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(24)00205-8/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lanhl Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://f...
Feb 12, 2025•24 min
Prof. Dannii Yuen-Lan Yeung & Dr. Da Jiang discuss the benefits of a volunteering intervention in mitigating loneliness in older volunteers. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(24)00190-9/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lanhl Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn.com/company/the-...
Feb 05, 2025•16 min
Antonia Clarke (Monash University, Australia) joins Editor-in-Chief Philippa Harris to discuss her systematic review on dementia prevalence in Indigenous populations in countries with a very high Human Development Index. Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancet https://youtube.com/thelancettv...
Dec 20, 2024•18 min
Dr Iracema Leroi discusses the SENSE-Cog trial on the effects of a hearing and vision rehabilitation and support programme on quality of life in people living with dementia. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(24)00141-7/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lanhl Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal http...
Oct 30, 2024•19 min
Juan Fortea joins Editor-in-Chief Philippa Harris to discuss the joint The Lancet Healthy Longevity and eBioMedicine Series on biomarkers of neurodegeneration. Read the Series: https://www.thelancet.com/series/biomarkers-of-neurodegeneration?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lanhl Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancet ht...
Oct 03, 2024•23 min
Dr Dina Goodman-Palmer discusses her study on frailty progression in adults living in rural Burkina Faso. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(24)00096-5?dgcid=buzzsprout_tlv_podcast_generic_lanhl Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancet https://youtube.com/thelancettv...
Aug 05, 2024•15 min
Joël Guigay discusses the ELAN-FIT and ELAN-UNFIT trials in older people with head and neck cancer, published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity, and the importance of geriatric assessments in clinical trials of older cancer patients. Read the full articles: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(23)00284-2/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lanhl https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(24)00048-5/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generi...
Jun 12, 2024•35 min
Jonas Salling Quist talks about his trial on the effects of time-restricted eating on bodyweight and cardiometabolic health for individuals at risk of type 2 diabetes. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(24)00028-X/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lanhl Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://li...
May 10, 2024•18 min
Professor Lara Pivodic discusses her publication in The Lancet Healthy Longevity on social connections in the final years of life and how these connections predict end-of-life outcomes. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(24)00011-4/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lanhl Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedical...
Apr 19, 2024•25 min
Helena Carreira discuses her recent work on the risk of fractures in half a million survivors of 20 cancers in England. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(23)00285-4/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lanhl Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancet https://youtube.co...
Mar 21, 2024•10 min
David Ekers, Simon Gilbody, and Judith Webster discuss the BASIL trial on behavioural activation to prevent depression and loneliness among socially isolated older people with long-term health conditions. Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancet https://youtube.com/thelancettv...
Feb 01, 2024•30 min
Elburg van Boetzelaer, joined by Favila Escobio, discusses her recent publication in The Lancet Healthy Longevity on involving older people in the preparedness, response, and recovery phrases of humanitarian emergencies. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(23)00244-1/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lanhl Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup ht...
Jan 25, 2024•22 min
Kathy Liu discusses her publication in The Lancet Healthy Longevity on how to evaluate the clinical benefits of treatments for Alzheimer’s disease. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(23)00193-9/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lanhl Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn.com/company/t...
Nov 20, 2023•15 min
Magdalena Taube discusses her work on haematological cancer following bariatric surgery with The Lancet Healthy Longevity Editor-in-Chief Philippa Harris. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(23)00141-1/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lanhl Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn.com/co...
Oct 19, 2023•8 min
Lindsay Kobayashi talks with Editor-in-Chief Philippa Harris about her Article in The Lancet Healthy Longevity on negative wealth shocks in later life and subsequent cognitive function. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(23)00113-7/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lanhl Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedical...
Sep 25, 2023•18 min
Amanda Perry discusses her paper on interventions for depression and anxiety in older people with physical health problems in the criminal justice system. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(23)00111-3/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lanhl Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn.com/co...
Aug 03, 2023•23 min
Dr Mikaela Bloomberg talks about her paper in The Lancet Healthy Longevity on joint associations of physical activity and sleep duration with cognitive ageing. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(23)00083-1/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lanhl Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn.c...
Jul 06, 2023•12 min
Sawsan Abdulrahim and Stephen J McCall discuss their paper published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity on COVID-19 vaccination of older Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(23)00038-7/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lanhl Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn...
Jun 05, 2023•18 min
Dr. Samtani discusses his new paper published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity on associations between social connections and cognition Read the full article: Associations between social connections and cognition: a global collaborative individual participant data meta-analysis Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancet https://y...
Nov 08, 2022•10 min
Prof. Meier discusses her new paper published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity on preparedness for healthy ageing in long-term cannabis users. Read the full article: Preparedness for healthy ageing and polysubstance use in long-term cannabis users Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancet https://youtube.com/thelancettv...
Oct 03, 2022•13 min
Dr. Luigi Ferrucci, Scientific Director of the US National Institute on Aging, discusses his new Comment published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity on a call to action for better care of older patients with complex multimorbidity and frailty. Read the Comment in The Lancet Healthy Longevity : https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(22)00173-8/fulltext Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgr...
Sep 06, 2022•15 min
Dr Christopher Mikton discusses his and his collaborators’ new study published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity on the factors influencing the global prioritisation of elder abuse. Read the full article: Factors shaping the global political priority of addressing elder abuse: a qualitative policy analysis Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn.com/...
Aug 01, 2022•21 min
Dr Hussein Yassine discusses the findings of the Nutrition for Dementia Prevention Working Group on the limitations of existing nutrition clinical trials for dementia prevention and corresponding recommendations for the design of future trials. Read the full article: Nutrition state of science and dementia prevention: recommendations of the Nutrition for Dementia Prevention Working Group Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram....
Jul 11, 2022•27 min
Professor Christopher Chiu and Dr Stephanie Ascough discuss their new paper in The Lancet Healthy Longevity on the correlates and mechanisms of protection against respiratory syncytial virus in older adults. Read the full article: Divergent age-related humoral correlates of protection against respiratory syncytial virus infection in older and young adults: a pilot, controlled, human infection challenge model Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.socia...
Jun 15, 2022•11 min
Dr Sophie Vieujean (Liège University Hospital) joins Ben Burwood to discuss her Review detailing the issues facing the inclusion of older adults with inflammatory bowel disease in clinical trials. Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancet https://youtube.com/thelancettv...
May 04, 2022•17 min
Dr Samar Al-Hajj discusses a recent GBD study published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity on injury morbidity and mortality in older people living in the Eastern Mediterranean region. Read the full article: Injury burden in individuals aged 50 years or older in the Eastern Mediterranean region, 1990–2019 Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn.com/co...
Apr 04, 2022•12 min
Dr Amy Justice (Yale University, USA) talks to Philippa Harris about the joint The Lancet HIV and The Lancet Healthy Longevity Series Ageing with HIV. Read the Series: Ageing with HIV Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://linkedIn.com/company/the-lancet https://youtube.com/thelancettv...
Feb 23, 2022•14 min
