Multimorbidity is one of the key challenges facing health researchers around the world. Broadly defined as the presence of two or more long-term health conditions in the same person at the same time, multimorbidity will become an increasingly pressing issue as populations get older. In the UK, estimates suggest that one in seven citizens will […]
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From bench to care home: improving immune resilience in older people
We know that older people have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus pandemic – but how many of us know why? A keynote lecture given by scientists Professor Lynne Cox, Professor Janet Lord and Dr Joan Mannick at the 2020 UK SPINE annual conference helps provide an insight. The answer – at least part of […]