Nicola Veronese is a certified trained geriatrician, currently working as a community-based geriatrician in ULSS 3 Serenissima, Venice, Italy. His research is mainly epidemiological and focused on the most common diseases affecting older people. In particular, his interest areas are osteoarticular, metabolic (including obesity and diabetes) and cardiovascular diseases, as well as nutrition. He is the author of more than 350 articles published in national and international scientific journals, and of numerous abstracts accepted by national and international congresses.   Anna Marseglia is a certified trained psychologist, currently an Assistant Professor at the Division of Clinical Geriatrics; Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Her research interests focus on identifying risk and protective factors for Vascular Cognitive Disorders (VCD), the underlying pathological and resilience mechanisms, and determinants of sex differences in VCD. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Society of Vascular Behavioural and Cognitive Disorders Society. Since 2019, she co-led a work package withing the EU Joint Programme–Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND)’s SHARED consortium