During the ‘speed dating workshop’, I met an elderly lady who had Rheumatoid arthritis. Prior to the workshop I had known about osteoarthritis, a condition affecting primarily elderly people that causes pain in the joints and occurs with age. However, Rheumatoid arthritis is different to osteoarthritis as it can affect people at any age. The patient told of how she encountered an eight year old boy at the hospital, who was also diagnosed, which was surprising. Rheumatoid arthritis, unlike osteoarthritis, is a “progressive inflammatory disorder” involving the immune system recognising the synovium (the lining of the joints) as an invader cell and attacking the synovium (Page 1, Cush, Weinblatt and Kavanaugh, 2010).…