According to a recent study published in BMC Public Health, the tendency to experience positive affectivity contributed to people being physically active or even increasing their activity during the COVID-19 restrictions. ...
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To remain mentally fit for as long as possible in old age, it is important to understand which risk factors could impact cognitive functioning already early in life. Scientists led by the German Centre for Neurodegenerative ...
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Hospitals are not places people want to visit over and over. But for many older adults, hospital readmission is a significant problem.
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Although osteoporosis and related fractures impose a significant and growing burden, the management of this disease, even following fractures, is on the decline. A pilot study published in Archives of Osteoporosis and carried ...
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Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have published results that shed new light on an old question: what causes aging at the molecular level? Their findings, published in Nature Aging, describe ...
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Researchers at the Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet have taken an important step toward understanding how microglia, the brain's immune cells, change with age and how these changes may contribute ...
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With lawmakers in Washington, D.C. and state houses getting ready to make major health policy decisions, a pair of new University of Michigan studies shows how past policy decisions have affected older Americans with modest ...
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The geroscience hypothesis focuses on extending the healthy lifespan by targeting aging mechanisms. Recent advances in biomarkers for biological aging give rise to tools for measuring aging and assessing treatments. Alzheimer's ...
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Many people wish not only to live as long as possible, but above all to do so without any health restrictions. However, with increasing age, the risk of age-related diseases such as Alzheimer's or sarcopenia (loss of muscle ...
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New research from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) at Trinity College Dublin has revealed the significant benefits of regular dog walking for older adults. The study is published in the Journals of Gerontology.
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