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The Role of Pensioner Councils in Regional Healthcare Policy: A Holistic Perspective
The Role of Pensioner Councils in Regional Healthcare Policy: A Holistic Perspective
To ensure older individuals actively engage in healthcare service development and policymaking, it is crucial to counterac...
Income Trajectories and Precarity in Later life
Income Trajectories and Precarity in Later life
This paper captures trajectories of income in later-life and considers how membership of particular income trajectories is...
Evaluation of exercise capacity by means of cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) in older adult cancer patients undergoing antineoplastic treatments
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COVID-19 impacts and interventions for older adults: implications for future disasters
Abstract The literature suggests that older adults ha...
Changes in cholesterol homeostasis associated with aging and with age-related conditions: pathophysiological and clinical implications
Abstract The increase in life expectancy is leading t...
Self-reported and performance-based disability measures have a different impact on the degree of social integration among older Americans
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Influence of family and social detachment on city-dwelling elderly demographic’s risk factors for malnutrition in South Korea. Social detachment and elderly’ malnutrition
Abstract Objective. This study investigated the influ...
Relationship between grip strength and minimal clinically important differences in cognitive function in older adults with dementia in a long-term residential facility
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Laying the Foundation for Developing an Item Bank Measuring Presby-function Based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
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Coping Mechanisms of Older Persons with Emigrant Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Nigeria
Coping Mechanisms of Older Persons with Emigrant Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Nigeria
The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria has taken a huge toll on the welfare of older adults, especially the ...
A Home-based Resistance Training Program to Reduce Pre-frailty in Middle-aged Adults: a Proof-of-concept Randomised Controlled Trial
A Home-based Resistance Training Program to Reduce Pre-frailty in Middle-aged Adults: a Proof-of-concept Randomised Controlled Trial
It is not known if resistance training reduces pre-frailty in community-dwelling middle-aged adults (50–65 ...
Away from Home or Returned Home? What Iranian Participants with Dementia Experience while Living in a Culturally Profiled Nursing Home in Sweden
Away from Home or Returned Home? What Iranian Participants with Dementia Experience while Living in a Culturally Profiled Nursing Home in Sweden
This study explores Iranian immigrants with dementia living in a culturally profiled Swedish nursing home and what it mean...
Frailty Among Older Indians: State-Level Factors
Frailty Among Older Indians: State-Level Factors
Frailty is a common syndrome affecting older adults. While frailty has well-established relationships with multiple advers...
Working Together to Support Family Caregivers of Older Nigerian Adults with Chronic Illness at Home
Working Together to Support Family Caregivers of Older Nigerian Adults with Chronic Illness at Home
In Nigeria, the burden of caring for older adults with chronic illness at home significantly impacts family members who ar...
Children as Investment: Religion, Money, and Muslim Migrants’ Experiences of Assisted Reproduction in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ)
Children as Investment: Religion, Money, and Muslim Migrants’ Experiences of Assisted Reproduction in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ)
Children are valued in all societies although the specific framing of that value differs. Several societies frame the valu...
Parental Divorce in Childhood and the Accelerated Epigenetic Aging for Earlier and Later Cohorts: Role of Mediators of Chronic Depressive Symptoms, Education, Smoking, Obesity, and Own Marital Disruption
Parental Divorce in Childhood and the Accelerated Epigenetic Aging for Earlier and Later Cohorts: Role of Mediators of Chronic Depressive Symptoms, Education, Smoking, Obesity, and Own Marital Disruption
We examine effects of parental divorce on epigenetic aging in later adulthood for two birth cohorts: one born in the early...
Barriers in Health and Social Care Access and Systems Navigation among Older Adults without Advocates: A Scoping Literature Review and Framework Synthesis
Barriers in Health and Social Care Access and Systems Navigation among Older Adults without Advocates: A Scoping Literature Review and Framework Synthesis
Informal caregivers are relied on to supplement formal systems. Sociodemographic shifts have driven concerns regarding the...
Correction to: The Self-Rated Health of Grandmothers Caring for Grandchildren: Evidence from South Africa
Correction to: The Self-Rated Health of Grandmothers Caring for Grandchildren: Evidence from South Africa
Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which...
Creativity and Healthy Ageing: Future Research Directions
Creativity and Healthy Ageing: Future Research Directions
The fact that the world population is ageing brings about societal challenges, but at the same time creates new opportunit...
Relationship Between Identity Affirmation, Autonomy and Successful Aging in Chilean Urban Mapuche Indigenous Older Adults
Relationship Between Identity Affirmation, Autonomy and Successful Aging in Chilean Urban Mapuche Indigenous Older Adults
Despite increased interest in the topic, the global rise in life expectancy has not been associated with better aging. Thi...
Research, clinical and theoretical training among geriatric medicine residents in Italy: a nationwide survey
Abstract Objective. Recently, the Italian Ministries ...
Association between potentially inappropriate prescribing, polypharmacy, and functional/cognitive impairment among Egyptian geriatric patients
Abstract Background and aims. Potentially inappropria...
The effect of leap motion controller based exergame therapy on hand function, cognitive function and quality of life in older adults. A randomised trial
Abstract Objective. To evaluate the effect of leap mo...
Posturographic study in older patients with instability associated with benign paroxysmal positional vertigo: a prospective analysis
Abstract Background and aims. Benign paroxysmal posit...
Comprehensive Geriatric Care at an acute secondary hospital: a pre- and post-model of care evaluation
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Relationship between oral rehabilitation and nutrients intake in the independent elderly: a systematic review of the literature
Abstract Objective. When investigating nutrients inta...
Relationship between healthy habits and obesity in older adults
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Comparative Analysis of Gender and Age Patterns in Informal Care Received among Disabled Older Adults: A Cross-National Study across the United States, Mexico, China, and Indonesia
Comparative Analysis of Gender and Age Patterns in Informal Care Received among Disabled Older Adults: A Cross-National Study across the United States, Mexico, China, and Indonesia
This paper examines cross-national differences by gender and age in receipt and sources of help for limitations with activ...
Free Time in Old Age: Does Health Status Determine the Choice of Leisure Activities in Indonesia?
Free Time in Old Age: Does Health Status Determine the Choice of Leisure Activities in Indonesia?
This paper examines which leisure activities appear more attractive to older people, considering health status, disability...
Habits of a Lifetime: Museum Visitation Amongst Older Australians
Habits of a Lifetime: Museum Visitation Amongst Older Australians
Recent studies have shown that cultural engagement, including museum attendance, is associated with improved health and we...
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