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The Lancet Healthy Longevity in conversation with

Editors at The Lancet Healthy Longevity, in conversation with the journal’s authors, explore their latest research and its impact on people’s health, healthcare, and health policy.A monthly audio companion to this open access journal, this podcast covers a broad range of topics, from dementia prevention to older people in the criminal justice system, the haematological malignancies in older people to the link between physical activity, sleep duration, and cognitive ageing, and more.

Ara Nazarian on musculoskeletal diseases in the USA

7 mins; June 03, 2025

Andrew Kingston on socioeconomic inequalities and disability

35 mins; April 15, 2025

Miles Witham on metformin to improve physical performance

18 mins; March 28, 2025

Harish Nair and Durga Kulkarni on the human metapneumovirus burden in older adults globally

23 mins; February 12, 2025

Dannii Yuen-Lan Yeung and Da Jiang on a the benefits of a volunteering intervention for lonely older adults

16 mins; February 05, 2025

Antonia Clarke on dementia prevalence in Indigenous populations

18 mins; December 20, 2024

Dr Iracema Leroi on a hearing and vision rehabilitation intervention for people with dementia

18 mins; October 30, 2024

Juan Fortea on biomarkers of neurodegeneration

22 mins; October 03, 2024

Dina Goodman-Palmer on frailty in rural Burkina Faso

14 mins; August 05, 2024

Professor Joël Guigay on clinical trials of older patients with head and neck cancer

34 mins; June 12, 2024

Jonas Salling Quist on time-restricted eating

17 mins; May 10, 2024

Lara Pivodic on social connections at the end of life

24 mins; April 19, 2024

Helena Carreira on fracture risk in cancer survivors

10 mins; March 21, 2024

David Ekers, Simon Gilbody, and Judith Webster on the BASIL trial

30 mins; February 01, 2024

Elburg van Boetzelaer and Favila Escobio on the exclusion of older people during humanitarian emergencies

21 mins; January 25, 2024

Kathy Liu on evaluating the clinical benefit of treatments for Alzheimer's disease

14 mins; November 20, 2023

Magdalena Taube on haematological cancer following bariatric surgery

8 mins; October 19, 2023

Lindsay Kobayashi on negative wealth shocks in later life and subsequent cognitive function

17 mins; September 25, 2023

Amanda Perry on older people in the criminal justice system

22 mins; August 03, 2023

Mikaela Bloomberg on physical activity, sleep duration, and cognitive ageing

12 mins; July 06, 2023

Sawsan Abdulrahim and Stephen J McCall on COVID-19 vaccination of Syrian refugees

18 mins; June 05, 2023

Suraj Samtani on associations between social connections and cognition

10 mins; November 08, 2022

Madeline Meier on healthy ageing in long-term cannabis users

13 mins; October 03, 2022

Dr. Luigi Ferrucci on improving care of older patients with complex multimorbidity and frailty.

14 mins; September 06, 2022

Christopher Mikton on elder abuse

20 mins; August 01, 2022

Hussein Yassine on dementia prevention trial design

27 mins; July 11, 2022

Christopher Chiu and Stephanie Ascough on respiratory syncytial virus in older adults

11 mins; June 15, 2022

Dr Sophie Vieujean on older adults with IBD and clinical trials

16 mins; May 04, 2022

Samar Al-Hajj on injury morbidity and mortality in older people living in the Eastern Mediterranean

12 mins; April 04, 2022

Amy Justice on ageing with HIV

14 mins; February 23, 2022

Yao Yao on China’s Clean Air Act and cognitive function in older adults

6 mins; February 07, 2022

Jacqueline Ramke on global eye health and ageing

13 mins; January 13, 2022

Andrew J. Scott on achieving a longevity society

24 mins; December 02, 2021

Raul Cordoba on haematological malignancies in older people

16 mins; November 03, 2021

Michaël Boissonneault on unhealthy working life expectancy

13 mins; September 29, 2021

Alex Jadad on the conditions for a good death

32 mins; September 02, 2021

Jack Rowe on gender differences in societal ageing

12 mins; August 04, 2021

Peter Hanlon on representation of older people in clinical trials

9 mins; June 30, 2021

Laura Shallcross on SARS-CoV-2 reinfection in long term care facilities

9 mins; June 03, 2021

Paula Rochon on polypharmacy in older people

20 mins; May 06, 2021

Jendé Zijlmans and Annemarie Luik on frailty

8 mins; March 31, 2021

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