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.

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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.

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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(25)00019-4/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_14-04-25_lanhl

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Miles Witham discusses his trial on the use of metformin to improve physical performance in older adults with sarcopenia and prefrailty or frailty.

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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(25)00014-5/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lanhl

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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.

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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(24)00205-8/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lanhl

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Prof. Dannii Yuen-Lan Yeung & Dr. Da Jiang discuss the benefits of a volunteering intervention in mitigating loneliness in older volunteers.

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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(24)00190-9/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_generic_lanhl

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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.

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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.

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Juan Fortea joins Editor-in-Chief Philippa Harris to discuss the joint The Lancet Healthy Longevity and eBioMedicine Series on biomarkers of neurodegeneration.

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Dr Dina Goodman-Palmer discusses her study on frailty progression in adults living in rural Burkina Faso.

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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.

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