.... 2024 Caregiver Daily life Healthy aging Older people Prevention As countries grow older, measuring functional ability – i.e., health-related attributes comprising intrinsic capacity, the environmental characteristics and the interactions between the individual...

...% confidence interval: 1.14–2.29). Conclusion: A significant association was found between CF and the higher CAVI (progression of arterial stiffness). Careful observation and control of CAVI, which is also an indicator of arterial stiffness, may be a potential target for preventive interventions for CF...

... was appraised throughout structural measures (magnetic resonance imaging, MRI) and amyloid accumulation (Pittsburgh compound B (PiB)-positron emission tomography, PiB-PET). Methods: Participants from the Finnish Geriatric Intervention Study to Prevent Cognitive Impairment and Disability (FINGER) neuroimaging...

...Joanne Dollard; Keith D. Hill; Anne Wilson; Damith C. Ranasinghe; Kylie Lange; Katherine Jones; Eileen Mary Boyle; Mengqi Zhou; Nicholas Ng; Renuka Visvanathan Introduction: As effective interventions to prevent inpatient falls are lacking, a novel technological intervention was trialed...

... adults have engaged in suicidal ideation at some point [ 27, 28 ], and in Australia, 5.8% of adults aged 60 and above reported having had suicidal ideation [ 29 ]. To prevent late-in-life suicide, it is important to identify risk factors. For instance, Bickford et al. [ 30 ] found that frailty...

...% for COVID-related death, 63.7% for all-cause mortality, and 71.1% for the composite endpoint (SARS-CoV-2 infection or death). Conclusion: This study shows that the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine effectively prevents SARS-CoV-2 infection, COVID-19-related death, and all-cause mortality in LTCF residents...

... in communicative health literacy, step count, engagement in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, dietary variety, life-space mobility, social network size, grip strength, gait speed, and depressive symptoms. Conclusions: The active learning program can promote a healthy lifestyle and prevent functional decline...

... prevention. Objective: We tested the hypothesis that an automated guiding light would reduce nightly fear of falling (FOF) and increase sleep quality of community-dwelling older people. Methods: This study had a pragmatic uncontrolled before-after design, including participants during a period of 8 months...

... factors and health are associated with a greater risk of elder abuse, our findings that trust within the community lessens the risk indicates the importance of social capital. This should be taken into consideration when developing population-based strategies to prevent elder abuse. chiekoga@chiba...

...-Hague Background: The Lifestyle-integrated Functional Exercise (LiFE) program is an intervention integrating balance and strength activities into daily life, effective at reducing falls in at-risk people ≥70 years. There is potential for LiFE to be adapted to young seniors in order to prevent age...

... and valued the individual tailoring in the programme, the preventive approach, and the support of trainers. Trainers valued the flexible approach and peer support between trainers. However, both participants and trainers disliked the extensive study paperwork and reported some challenges to integrate...

... targeted preventive interventions. Objective: The aim of this study is to identify and predict trajectories of functional decline over 9 years in males and females aged 60-70 years. Methods: We included 403 community-dwelling participants from the InCHIANTI study and 395 from the LASA study aged 60-70...

... that decline during aging, signs of cognitive dysfunction, screening methods, and preventive measures for age-related cognitive decline. Moreover, we discuss the drawbacks of using questionnaires as subjective measures of aging and propose the development of objective methods to distinguish normal cognitive...

... in relation to exercise protocols as this is where the current literature shows the most promising outcomes. Maximisation of the efficacy of preventative and treatment interventions which focus on both cognitive functioning and physical health should lead to improving and extending functional independence...

...Karen R. Soons; David N. Little; Jean Harvey The purpose of this study was to assess an elderly population’s (60–80 years old) attitudes toward health prevention and lifestyle change with a particular emphasis on cholesterol screening and management. A free cholesterol screen was offered...

... inflexible to change, and that treatment is unacceptably hazardous. There is considerable potential for prevention, improved detection and appropriate treatment. In addition, it is increasingly clear that treatment can improve prognosis. Prevention requires education, and a political agenda to address...

... strategies may have to be altered in this patient population. Newer and innovative strategies in management are needed in the field of aging and infections. 6 4 2009 Infectious diseases Susceptibility Prevention © 1984 S. Karger AG, Basel 1984 Copyright / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer...

... an update of the physiopathology and clinical and biological characteristics of the frailty process and speculate on possible preventative approaches. 22 09 2008 20 02 2009 4 4 2009 © 2009 S. Karger AG, Basel 2009 Copyright / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer Copyright: All rights reserved...

... is given to the role of arteriolar flow insufficiency and stress is laid on the long-standing capillaropathy which precedes the heamorrhagic phase of the disease. Basic therapeutic considerations are mentioned but stress is laid on the diagnosis of the pre-occlusive stage and on measures of a preventive...

.... To promote the highest quality of care and reduce variation in care, a practice guideline is needed. Summarization of evidence regarding falls may be useful to researchers in this field. Objectives: To provide evidence-based guidelines of assessment and treatment to prevent falls in older adults...