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    Precision Medicine and Aging Have This in Common

    by Silvia Golumbeanu Sep 22, 2017 3 minutes

    Precision medicine and aging both drive the complexity of medical care up.Photograph by isak55 / Shutterstock

    We are healthier and living longer than we ever have, and advances like personalized medicine seem to promise an ever brighter future. But as the proportion of elderly people increases, so do the complexities of age-related medical care.

    caught up with Mary Tinetti, a doctor and researcher at the Yale School of Medicine, to talk about her work on improving healthcare for aging patients. Tinetti emphasized the importance of treating people in all their complexity, not just

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