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High cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with better cognitive performance and lower risk of dementia long term, including in people with a genetic predisposition to dementia. Cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) is the capacity of the circulatory and respiratory systems to supply oxygen to muscles and declines increasingly with age as skeletal muscle is lost. CRF declines by [...]
President of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, Professor Helen Lavretsky, has revealed how her work in integrative psychiatry is transforming approaches to mental health and ageing. Lavretsky has successfully merged conventional psychiatric treatments with mind-body interventions, developing novel therapeutic combinations for treatment-resistant depression and cognitive disorders. Her studies on yoga and Tai Chi have [...]
New research has identified several community-level factors that may increase people’s risk of experiencing cognitive impairment. In the study of 2,830 dementia-free US individuals aged 65 years and above, 23.2 per cent of participants were categorised as having mild cognitive impairment. People who lived in areas with higher neighbourhood disadvantage, higher air pollution, higher homicide [...]
People diagnosed with type 2 diabetes at a younger age are at a higher risk for developing dementia than those diagnosed later in life, according to a study. The findings show that the increased risk is especially pronounced among adults with obesity. Type 2 diabetes is a known risk factor for dementia. Although the underlying [...]
Elderly people who have symptoms of depression and moderate or severe joint pain tend to show faster cognitive decline, especially in the area of memory, shows a new study. The analyses show that people who had both pain and depression together had a faster decline in memory and global cognition over the 12 years of [...]
Planned suburban residential neighbourhoods in metropolitan areas known as new towns were initially developed in England. The new town movement spread from Europe to East Asia, such as to Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore. In Japan alone, 2,903 New Towns were built, but many experienced rapid population decline and ageing in the 40 [...]
The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) has announced sixteen recipients of the 2024 Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowships in Aging Research and the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Grants for Junior Faculty. The Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowships in Aging Research support postdoctoral fellows who direct their research towards basic [...]
A new study has revealed that patients with heart disease, specifically those with heart failure, are especially vulnerable to the impacts of air pollution and poor air quality and can take steps to protect themselves. In the study, two inflammatory markers — CCL27 (C-C motif chemokine ligand 27) and IL-18 (interleukin 18) — were elevated [...]
With the worldwide population ageing at an unprecedented rate, the prevention of age-related diseases has become a prominent issue. It is important to comprehensively and quantitatively evaluate the changes that ageing causes at the molecular level in the body. By doing so, it may be possible to pinpoint specific ageing factors and suppress age-related diseases. [...]
If every American over the age of 40 was as physically active as the top 25 per cent of the population, they could expect to live an extra 5 years, on average, suggest the findings of a modelling study. And if the least physically active matched the level of the most physically active, they could [...]
