Muir Gray is one of Britain’s leading public health doctors. He has also worked for the WHO Global Health programme on ageing. Over many years he designed and developed programmes (including the National Screening for Breast Cancer programme) to promote wellbeing, and ensure that people are treated well when they develop a disease.
The Fitness Gap that begins to open in most people from around the age of twenty, is the gap between how able a person is at any point in time compared to how able they would be if they were affected only by ageing, and not loss of fitness. Muir Gray’s first book on prevention of disease in old age emphasized the need for professionals, and older people themselves, to see that many of the problems which occur in old age are not inevitable.
Another area in which Muir Gray has been a leading thinker, and doer, is in recognizing that the most important resource for people who want to stay healthy and cope with any disease that might occur, is knowledge. He organised giving access to best current knowledge for patients and the public through NHS Choices: www.nhs.uk.
Muir Gray is highly respected both for the originality of his thinking and for his practical common sense. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1998, and a Knight Commander in 2005.
The Fitness Gap that begins to open in most people from around the age of twenty, is the gap between how able a person is at any point in time compared to how able they would be if they were affected only by ageing, and not loss of fitness. Muir Gray’s first book on prevention of disease in old age emphasized the need for professionals, and older people themselves, to see that many of the problems which occur in old age are not inevitable.
Another area in which Muir Gray has been a leading thinker, and doer, is in recognizing that the most important resource for people who want to stay healthy and cope with any disease that might occur, is knowledge. He organised giving access to best current knowledge for patients and the public through NHS Choices: www.nhs.uk.
Muir Gray is highly respected both for the originality of his thinking and for his practical common sense. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1998, and a Knight Commander in 2005.
