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Online training that helps people recognise and understand new voices could be key to helping older adults improve communication in everyday environments, finds research. The study tested whether learned voices were easier to understand than unfamiliar voices in 20 older adults aged 55 to 73 years and 20 younger adults aged 18 to 34 years [...]
AiDiDom, a consortium representing three of the largest home care federations in Wallonia, Belgium, has partnered with Care Daily, a leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI) caregiving solutions in a bid to revolutionise senior care in Europe with the launch of 'Jeremi' - an AI Virtual Caregiver powered by Care Daily’s open AI Platform. Jeremi [...]
The short-term boost our brains get after we do exercise persists throughout the following day, suggests a new study. Previous research in a laboratory setting has shown that people’s cognitive performance improves in the hours after exercise, but how long this benefit lasts is unknown. The new study found that on average, people aged 50 to [...]
New research suggests that living in a disadvantaged neighbourhood is associated with higher blood pressure and lower cognitive scores, even among people who do not have an existing diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment. Cognition refers to the mental process of thinking, learning, remembering, being aware of surroundings and using judgment. Mild cognitive impairment is a [...]
Many recent studies assume that elderly people are at particular risk of dying from extreme heat as the planet warms. However, a new study of mortality in Mexico turns this assumption on its head: it shows that 75 per cent of heat-related deaths are occurring among people under 35―a large percentage of them ages 18 [...]
Deciding when to stop driving can be challenging for older adults and their families. However, a new study shows that using a decision aid tool can be beneficial and help older adults when faced with this difficult decision. In a randomised clinical trial with more than 300 participants, researchers looked at the long-term impact of [...]
The U.S. is failing to keep pace with dozens of countries around the world due to the steady decline of the nation’s health progress, according to a detailed analysis of all 50 states and Washington, D.C.. Researchers have produced health estimates and forecasts of life expectancy, mortality, and morbidity due to more than 350 diseases [...]
New research has identified a new link between air pollution and water quality with multimorbidity. Multimorbidity is the presence of two or more chronic health conditions that create disability and poor quality of life in old age. In 2023, the overall global prevalence of multimorbidity was 37.2 per cent. However, the mechanisms driving multimorbidity are [...]
Redlining—a mid-20th-century federal government practice of denying home loans in African American and other minority neighbourhoods in the US—has long been associated with poor health outcomes, including disparate overall mortality rates among racial and ethnic groups. The term gets its name from the practice by the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC, operational from 1933 to [...]
An average of four minutes of incidental vigorous physical activity a day could almost halve the risk of major cardiovascular events, such as heart attacks, for middle-aged women who do not engage in structured exercise, according to new research. High-intensity physical activity that forms part of a daily routine is known as “vigorous intermittent lifestyle [...]
