Aging Brains Hit a Neural Ceiling When Walking Gets Tough, Study Finds
A new PLOS Aging and Health study shows that older adults over-recruit posterior parietal brain circuits during easy walking and ...
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Virtual Time Travel Through Old Hong Kong Boosts Memory and Well-Being in Older Adults
An immersive virtual reality reconstruction of historical Hong Kong improved memory recall, lowered stress, and increased social connectedness in older ...
Cyclists Fare Better Than Fall Patients After Trauma, Nationwide Study Finds
A nationwide analysis of 1.7 million trauma records finds that older cyclists injured in crashes have better outcomes than patients ...
Weak Grip, Not Weak Lungs, Drives Metabolic Risk in Older Adults
A new study of lung-healthy older adults finds that the apparent link between reduced pulmonary function and metabolic syndrome disappears ...
Inside the Ambitious Texas Study Scanning Every Organ to Decode How We Age
A new 600-person Texas cohort study is combining whole-body MRI, vascular testing, cognitive and physical assessments, and wearable monitoring to ...
What Emergency Departments Tell Older Adults About Follow-Up Care Often Falls Short
A multisite content analysis finds that emergency department discharge instructions for older adults often fail to specify the purpose, provider, ...
Whooping Cough Is Hitting China’s Elderly Hard—and the Costs Are Steep
A new study from Zhejiang Province finds that pertussis imposes a substantial economic burden on adults over sixty, with hospitalization ...
Machine Learning Reveals How Muscle Power Predicts Frailty and Falls in Aging
An unsupervised machine learning analysis of 23 physical performance measures in 368 older adults identified three performance clusters that aligned ...
Healthy Habits Pay Unequal Dividends: Where You Live Shapes How Lifestyles Slow Ageing
A study of more than 155,000 adults across 32 countries finds that the healthy-ageing benefits of good lifestyles vary up ...
Loneliness and Feeling Ignored May Predict Loss of Independence in Older Mexican Adults
A large analysis of more than 9,000 older Mexican adults finds that feelings of isolation and being ignored predict functional ...
AI Learns to Spot Swallowing Disorders Before They Turn Deadly
A new PLOS Digital Health study shows that machine learning models trained on a 15-item questionnaire can screen adults for ...
Lifetime Smoking Rivals Poverty in Eroding Quality of Life for Older Americans
A comprehensive lifetime smoking exposure index shows the quality-of-life burden of cigarette smoke in older US adults rivals that of ...
Reactive Agility Test Outperforms Classic Fall Screening in Older Adults
A dual-centre study in GeroScience found that a reactive agility test distinguished older adults with a history of falls better ...
Blood Clues Reveal How Healthy Diets Leave Their Mark on Aging Bodies
A population-based study of 1,769 Swedish older adults links Mediterranean-style and low-inflammatory diets to favorable blood biomarker profiles spanning metabolic, ...
New Questionnaire Captures How Older Adults Really Experience Daily Life
A new validation study confirms that the EDLQ-old questionnaire reliably measures both the objective and subjective dimensions of daily activity ...
Why Older Adults Abandon the Exercises That Keep Them Steady
A year-long German cohort study of 337 older adults finds that adherence to prescribed vestibular exercises falls sharply after three ...
Routine Blood Test Marker RDW Linked to Higher Hip Fracture Risk in Older Adults
A large UK Biobank cohort study finds that higher red blood cell distribution width, a routine blood count measure, is ...
Married but Disconnected: Landmark Study Maps Five Social Lives of Older Americans
A new analysis of more than 10,000 older Americans identifies five distinct social connection profiles, including a large group of ...
Trouble Swallowing and Anxiety Often Go Hand in Hand in Older Adults, Massive Chinese Study Finds
A study of more than 13,500 older adults in Central China found that those reporting a risk of dysphagia had ...
Deaths Involving Both Alzheimer’s and Cancer Decline Slightly Yet Grow in Number Among Older Americans
A 25-year national analysis finds that age-adjusted U.S. death rates involving both Alzheimer's disease and cancer among adults aged 65 ...
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