Chronological Quarantine: Evidence-Based Ageism & Ageist Evidence
The scientific-political milieu of Covid-19 encompasses numerous fraught debates. Among them, arguments about targeting restrictions at older people have animated …
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Is Dementia a Leading Cause of Death?
This week, Office for National Statistics figures (1) revealed that dementia has overtaken heart disease as the biggest cause of …
Launching the King’s Centre for Global Ageing
The Institute of Gerontology (IoG) in the Department of Social Science, Health & Medicine (SSHM) at King’s College London (KCL) …
Plaques Cause Alzheimer’s. Why?
Like so many people who are routinely awakened by an alarm clock, I recover from the experience with a review …
The ‘Costs’ of Dementia
Last month the Annals of Internal Medicine published a study (1) comparing long-term care costs during the last five years …
Ageing Issues 