In this issue of Nature Aging, Janbek et al. report results of a registry-based cohort study in Denmark where older people with incident dementia had higher risk of infections, especially in the nervous system. They call for interventions for better health and quality of life for people living with dementia.
It has been said that “even if the ‘problems of old age come as a package’, quantification of the package in which those problems come is a challenge for ageing research”1. In clinical practice, the ‘geriatric giants’ (for example, immobility, instability, incontinence, impaired intellect or memory, frailty, sarcopenia, the anorexia of aging, delirium) often appear jointly and in disguise, in the same…
