Why Should the Infectious Diseases Community Focus on Aging and Care of the Older Adult?

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In this editorial commentary, I have several tasks I wish to accomplish: to review the evidence on why aging should be an important part of the practice paradigms and research agenda for infectious diseases specialists, to introduce the reader to a 5-part series entitled “What's Different about Infection in Older Adults?” that will appear in the Aging and Infectious Diseases section of Clinical Infectious Diseases (CID) during the next few months, to indicate how a career that blends study of infection and aging is a viable pathway for academic physicians over the coming decades, and finally, but perhaps most importantly, to recognize the accomplishments of those persons who have blazed this trail and raised our understanding of both aging and infection.