The Link Between Itch and Aging, with Daniel Butler, MD

Daniel Butler, MD, is associate professor of medicine at the College of Medicine Tucson, University of Arizona. He is also the Director of the Inflammatory & Aging Skin Research Program, and a pioneer in the space of geriatric dermatology.

Butler sat down with Patient Care Online© live at the 2025 American Academy of Dermatology Conference in Orlando, March 7-11, to discuss many issues related to chronic itch in older patients, including the concept of immunosenescence and why its more complex a process than generally understood, and how it relates to the interplay between aging and itch.