Researchers will study telehealth behavioral interventions among adults 50 and older with excess weight and cardiometabolic risk factors.
Beta-amyloid is far from the only factor in dementia, memory loss and Alzheimer's disease, and far from the only target for drugs, says the director of a top Alzheimer's center. Research on many molecules, and an emphasis on preventing or slowing the disease, are both crucial.
A new study shows older adults who ate about a serving of meat daily had a 22 percent higher risk of cardiovascular disease than those who didn’t eat meat, and identifies biologic pathways that help explain the risk. Higher risk and links to gut bacteria were found for red meat, not poultry, eggs, or fish.
Here are some of the latest articles that have been added to the Drug Resistance channel on Newswise, a free source for journalists.
JMIR Publications recently published "Using Twitter to Examine Stigma Against People With Dementia During COVID-19: Infodemiology Study" in JMIR Aging which reported that during the pandemic, there has been significant social media attention focused on the increased COVID-19 risks and impacts for people with dementia and their care partners.
Today (July 25), UK HealthCare and community leaders celebrated the full opening of the Sanders-Brown Memory Clinic at Turfland. The new, larger clinic replaces the former Sanders-Brown facilities along North Broadway in Lexington. The world looks to The University of Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging for answers to the mysteries of dementia, and the elderly rely on them for help in charting their path to a healthy and vigorous senior lifestyle. After outgrowing their old space, leaders at UK decided it was time that Sanders-Brown’s home for clinical research and patient care reflects their reputation — building them a new home on UK HealthCare’s Turfland Campus.
Physicians and researchers from UK HealthCare's Transplant Center and the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center conducted a study of patients over the age of 70 with a type of liver cancer called hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and how the outcomes of ablative treatments compare to liver transplants. The findings were published in the May 2022 issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.
RUSH researchers found that a bioactive compound found in strawberries called pelargonidin may be associated with less neurofibrillary tau tangles in the brain.
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded Ochsner Health a $700,000 grant to study the effectiveness of its collaborative dementia care through the Ochsner Neuroscience Institute’s Brain Health and Cognitive Disorders Program.
Researchers evaluated a remotely supervised online chair yoga intervention targeted at older adults with dementia and measured clinical outcomes virtually via Zoom under the remote guidance. Results showed that remotely supervised online chair yoga is a feasible approach for managing physical and psychological symptoms in socially isolated older adults with dementia based on retention (70 percent) and adherence (87.5 percent), with no injury or other adverse events.
Physician-scientists from the Jona Goldrich Center for Alzheimer’s and Memory Disorders at Cedars-Sinai are available for media interviews during the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) taking place online and in person July 31-Aug. 4, 2022, in San Diego.
Physical and mental activities, such as household chores, exercise, and visiting with family and friends, may help lower the risk of dementia, according to a new study published in the July 27, 2022, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The study looked at the effects of these activities, as well as mental activities and use of electronic devices in people both with and without higher genetic risk for dementia.
UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Study reports that epigenetic age acceleration is associated with lower odds of living to be 90 years old and could be used as a biomarker for healthy longevity and to estimate functional and cognitive aging.
A look into how environmental variables accelerate, slow or even reverse the aging process is the focus of a University of Oregon anthropologist whose research was recently funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Nearly 40% of older adults currently use at least one integrative medicine strategy to try to ease symptoms of a physical or mental health issue, or to help them relax, a new poll finds. But only 18% of them have actually talked about it with a health care provider.
A new study compares two approaches to improving memory in people with mild cognitive impairment.
University of Utah researchers developed a protocol for using robotic pets with older adults with dementia. The protocol uses a low-cost robotic pet, establishes ideal session lengths, and identifies common participant responses to the pets to aid in future research.
Caregivers with their own disabilities face a litany of complications while trying to tend to aging or ailing spouses and partners: health problems, mental health difficulties, work issues, even financial and healthcare strains, according to the inaugural white paper from a University of Pittsburgh center studying caregiving.
A new study published in The Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences found a link between depression, diet, and the development of frailty.
With a $45 million grant from the NIH, UC San Diego researchers and collaborators will launch a nationwide clinical trial to further investigate the therapeutic potential of benfotiamine, a synthetic version of thiamine (B1), as a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.
Researchers found significant differences in movement patterns between participants with normal cognition and those with mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s disease.
مدينة روتشستر، ولاية مينيسوتا: قد يحتاج الأفراد الذين يواجهون صعوبة في المشاركة في المحادثات أو أولئك الذين يعانون من مشاكل مرتبطة بالذاكرة والمهارات الفكرية إلى اختبار قدرتهم السمعية. وقد يكون فقدان السمع بسبب التقدّم في العمر مرتبطاً بالتعرض بشكل أكبر لخطر فقدان القدرات المعرفية والإدراك، كما يوضح الدكتور رونالد بيترسن، طبيب الأعصاب ومدير مركز أبحاث داء الزهايمر التابع لمايو كلينك.
Lisa Health launches Midday, an app leveraging AI to personalize the menopause journey, in collaboration with Mayo Clinic
A new research paper was published in Aging (Aging-US / Albany NY) on the cover of Volume 14, Issue 13, entitled, “Epigenetic clocks and their association with trajectories in perceived discrimination and depressive symptoms among US middle-aged and older adults.”
Loss of the protein pigment epithelium-derived factor (PEDF), which protects retinal support cells, may drive age-related changes in the retina, according to a new study in mice from the National Eye Institute (NEI).
يمكن أن يسبب تضخم غدد البروستاتا أعراضًا بولية غير مريحة للرجال. وتزداد الخطورة مع تقدمهم في السن، حيث يعاني ما يقرب من 30% من الرجال من الأعراض عند بلوغ سن الستين، و50% من الرجال بحلول سن الثمانين.
UC San Diego researchers tracked the evolution of a gene variant that supports cognitive health in older humans, but may have first emerged to protect against bacteria.
Published today in Nature Cell Biology, Wistar scientists revealed a novel ADAR1-SIRT1-p16INK4a axis in regulating cellular senescence and its potential implications in tissue aging.
The loss of the male sex chromosome as many men age causes the heart muscle to scar and can lead to deadly heart failure, new research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine shows.
As pessoas que têm dificuldades para acompanhar conversas ou estão desenvolvendo problemas com as habilidades de memória e raciocínio podem precisar verificar sua audição.
交谈困难或记忆和思维能力出现问题的人可能需要进行听力检查。神经科医生兼妙佑医疗国际阿尔茨海默氏症研究中心主任Ronald Petersen（医学博士）解释道，与年龄相关的听力减退可能会增加认知功能下降的风险。
Las personas que tienen dificultad para seguir una conversación o desarrollan problemas con las capacidades de la memoria y el pensamiento deberían hacerse revisar la audición.
A multisite research team from the University of California, Irvine, the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Wake Forest University has discovered that brain inflammation may link Alzheimer’s disease risk with sleep disturbance, which may aid early detection and prevention efforts by identifying novel treatment targets at preclinical stages.
The nation’s system of long-term services and supports face many challenges and need improvement to adequately care for an increasing number of older adults, says the American College of Physicians (ACP) in a new position paper. ACP provides recommendations about how to reform and improve the long-term services and support (LTSS) sector so that care is high quality, accessible, equitable, and affordable. The position paper is published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
To build a resource that greatly expands Alzheimer’s disease genetic studies in the currently underrepresented African ancestry populations and Hispanic/Latinx groups, the John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics (HIHG) at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine will lead a major five-year, international, multi-site initiative with Case Western Reserve University, Columbia University, Wake Forest University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Ibadan, which is the lead institution for the African Dementia Consortium (AfDC).
Two Chula architectural graduates have developed Squeezium and Rehabit innovations to provide an incentive for the elderly to get up and move to strengthen their bodies. As a nod to their creativity, the innovations received Gold Medal and Special Award at the 7th World Invention Innovation Contest, Korea Invention Academy (KIA).
Older people with hypothyroidism, also called underactive thyroid, may be at increased risk of developing dementia, according to a study published in the July 6, 2022, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The risk of developing dementia was even higher for people whose thyroid condition required thyroid hormone replacement medication.
Research from the lab of Patrick Hill in psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences shows a link in older adults between social interactions and having a sense of purpose.
Researchers have recently examined coroner reports of deaths in residential care where choking or aspiration pneumonia was a factor in the person’s death.
New research from the University of Georgia suggests age and risk perception may have as much of an effect on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance as party affiliation.
HIV has an “early and substantial” impact on aging in infected people, accelerating biological changes in the body associated with normal aging within just two to three years of infection.
An international team of 114 scientists has performed the most comprehensive study of aging and longevity to date with data collected in the wild from 107 populations of 77 species of reptiles and amphibians worldwide.
Clemson University is seeking healthy older adults to volunteer for the Preventing Alzheimer’s with Cognitive Training (PACT) study. This landmark study examines whether computerized brain training exercises can reduce the risk of cognitive impairment and dementia such as Alzheimer’s disease.
People who received at least one influenza vaccine were 40% less likely than their non-vaccinated peers to develop Alzheimer’s disease over the course of four years, according to a new study from UTHealth Houston.
Four out of five Americans 65 and older want to stay in their homes as they age, according to a recent Associated Press poll. But deciding how long an elderly relative should live alone and when they should move to an environment with more support – such as assisted living or a nursing home – can be difficult.
As human lifespans increase, new societal challenges arise. In a "superaging society," in which young people are few and older people are many, caring for the older adult population adequately with limited resources is a difficult balancing act to perform.
A medicina regenerativa é um campo emergente que procura reparar, substituir ou restaurar células, tecidos ou órgãos adoecidos. Na Mayo Clinic, a Dra. Saranya Wyles, M.D. Ph.D. em dermatologia, está pesquisando novas curas para problemas de pele relacionados à idade, como rugas, manchas da idade, perda de cabelo e afinamento da pele.
罗切斯特，明尼苏达州 — 再生医学是一个新兴领域，人们在其中寻找修复、替换或恢复病变细胞、组织或器官的新方法。妙佑医疗国际(Mayo Clinic) 的皮肤科医生Saranya Wyles医学博士/博士正在研究新疗法，试图解决各种年龄相关的皮肤问题，如皱纹、老年斑、脱发和皮肤变薄
مدينة روتشستر، ولاية مينيسوتا- الطب التجديدي هو مجال ناشئ يهدف إلى إصلاح الخلايا أو الأنسجة أو الأعضاء المريضة أو استبدالها أو ترميمها. في مايو كلينك، تبحث طبيبة الجلد سارانيا وايلز، دكتور الطب، الحاصلة على الدكتوراه، عن علاجات جديدة لمشاكل الجلد المرتبطة بالعمر مثل: التجاعيد وبقع الشيخوخة وتساقط الشعر وترقق الجلد.
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