10-Week Healthy Ageing Course
Authored by Lynn StephenOriginally published 5 Feb 2026
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Take the first step to feeling your best as you grow older. Each week, we'll focus on different areas to help you age well and maintain a healthy body and mind, including exercise, diet, anti-ageing supplements, healthy brain ageing, and bone and joint health.
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Lynn Stephen
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Lynn joined Patient in 2023 and her role includes checking all the professional leaflets, patient information leaflets and medicine leaflets, to ensure consistency of spelling, grammar, reference material and brand style, working with the medical authors and clinical director to coordinate the authoring and peer reviewing of the leaflets.
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5 Feb 2026 | Originally published
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