Disturbances during sleep decreases capability to control posture and balance according to researchers from the department of engineering and Warwick Medical School at the University of Warwick.
This is the first study demonstrating the...
November 28th, 2018Around half of older patients are exposed to potentially inappropriate prescribing, each year, and hospitalisation is independently associated with an increased risk, finds a study in Ireland. Inappropriate prescribing can include the...
November 14th, 2018Researchers at Boston Medical Centre found that frequent, persistent back pain is associated with earlier death in a study of more than 8,000 older women who were followed for an average of 14 years. After controlling for important socio-demographic...
Men who lack resilience are exponentially more vulnerable to becoming severely depressed after their spouse dies, according to a study from Florida State University researchers. Brittany King, a graduate student in the department of sociology, along...Gerontology
Happy older people live longer, according to researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore. The authors of the study found that an increase in happiness is directly proportional with a reduction in mortality.
The study utilised data for...
July 4th, 2018The chances of reaching the ripe old age of 110 are within reach – a you survive the perilous 90s and make it to 105 when death rates level out, according to a study of extremely old Italians led by the University of California-Berkeley, and...
May 2nd, 2018A study, led by Johns Hopkins Medicine investigators, of nearly 6,000 Americans followed for 24 years from middle to late adulthood found that having chronic inflammation in middle age may be linked to an increased risk of frailty and overall poorer...
The largest-ever survey of care home staff in England, led by University College London (UCL) researchers, has found that neglectful behaviours are widespread. For the study, care home staff were asked anonymously about positive and negative...
April 11th, 2018A sudden substantial financial loss in middle-age or older people, is associated with an up to 50% higher risk of death, found a US study.
The Northwestern Medicine and University of Michigan study found that when people lose 75% or more of their...
March 21st, 2018Adult children who return to live with their parents, the so-called “boomerang generation”, cause a significant decline in parents' quality of life and well-being, according to research from the London School of Economics and Political...
February 28th, 2018'Super-agers' have long puzzled scientists, but now researchers say they are unpicking why some people live beyond 80 – and still appear to be in fine fettle, with cognitive capacities on a par with adults decades younger. The Guardian reports...
January 10th, 2018Heavy drinking and smoking are linked to four visible signs of physical ageing, and looking older than one's years, found a long-term Danish observational study.
The research was from the National Institute of Public Health, University of...
Mushrooms may contain unusually high amounts of two antioxidants that some scientists suggest could help fight ageing and bolster health, according to a team of Penn State researchers.
In a study, researchers found that mushrooms have high...
October 25th, 2017In one of the largest microbiota studies conducted in humans, researchers at Western University, Lawson Health Research Institute and Tianyi Health Science Institute in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China have shown a potential link between healthy ageing and...
An individual's variation in reaction times, when completing a single cognitive task across several trials, has been identified in an Australian study as an independent predictor of mortality in old age.
A common indicator of neurobiological...Gerontology
A combination of nutritional, physical and cognitive interventions can reverse physical frailty in elderly people, found a four-year study from the National University of Singapore.
Physical frailty is common among the elderly and is strongly...
