Healthy ageing & wellness
Seven healthy habits and lifestyle factors may play a role in lowering the risk of dementia in people with the highest genetic risk. That's according to research published in the May 25 online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The seven cardiovascular and brain health factors are known as [...]
In the search for eternal youth, faecal transplants may seem like an unlikely way to reverse the ageing process. However, scientists at the Quadram Institute and the University of East Anglia have provided evidence, from research in mice, that transplanting faecal microbiota from young into old mice can reverse hallmarks of ageing in the gut, [...]
A detailed microsimulation, using a database of 40 million people, has examined the future of Japan’s ageing population up to 2043. It projects that more people will live longer, and that overall years spent living with dementia will decrease. However, the model highlighted the diversity of impacts on different segments of the population, as Japanese [...]
