Challenging times for skin diseases and the elderly.
Over the past three years the British Skin foundation has awarded over £2.2 million to research projects looking at a huge/multitude of different skin diseases in the UK. It is a lot of money but research is expensive and there remains a long way to go before many of these skin diseases are fully understood. Awareness of skin disease remains one of our biggest issues. There are such a vast number of skin diseases, it would be impossible for any medical professional to understand them all. Nonetheless, there a few skin diseases that tend to affect the elderly more frequently than others, so it is worth keeping an eye out for the symptoms of them while at work.
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