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A new paper examines how social isolation, loneliness and frailty affect one another and the bidirectional relationship they exert as an individual gets older. The researchers analysed seven waves of data collected from more than 2,300 older Dutch adults every three years between 1995 and 2016. They found that physical frailty can be an indicator [...]
The ageing and failure of cells that occurs when one part of the body is damaged can spread to other organs, a study suggests. Scientists have shown for the first time that the deterioration of cells in a damaged liver can activate a process associated with ageing and impaired function, which then transmits to otherwise [...]
Outsourcing adult social care services in England to the private sector since the 1980s has led to worse care and should be rolled back, argue experts in The BMJ. Benjamin Goodair at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, and colleagues, suggest that removing the profit motive would help improve quality and reduce inequities. [...]
A new study has revealed that the use of gabapentinoids – medicines widely used to treat neuropathic pain – increased the risk of hip fractures, especially in older patients who were frail or had kidney disease. The study tracked patients hospitalised for hip fractures in Victoria, Australia from March 2013 through June 2018, who had [...]
The treatment landscape for patients with prostate cancer, especially individuals with advanced disease, has dramatically changed in recent years. However, aside from drug or hormonal therapies, other targets to treat prostate cancer are still necessary to prolong life and slow the progression of this potentially lethal disease. A new study has now found that inhibition [...]
Exercise has been shown to improve brain health and reduce the risk of cognitive decline and dementia over the long-term. But engaging in everyday physical activity has immediate benefits for brain health, according to a new study. The team found that middle-aged people who participated in everyday movement showed improvement in cognitive processing speed equivalent [...]
In science, the most fascinating breakthroughs often come from unexpected places. For Dr. Etienne Sibille, professor at the University of Toronto, and director of the Neurobiology of Depression and Aging program at CAMH, and co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Damona Pharmaceuticals, the path to revolutionising mental health treatment began not in a laboratory, but [...]
An international study has found frailty increases a person’s risk of dementia, but early intervention may be the key to prevention. Dr David Ward from the Centre for Health Services Research at the University of Queensland tracked the data of nearly 30,000 participants of four longitudinal studies in the United Kingdom and the United States, [...]
A new study has revealed the impact of "emotional contagion" - a kind of behavioural mirroring - on the mental health of seniors. The study found that vulnerability to emotional contagion varies from person to person, just as personality traits do, and is something that’s often overlooked in studies of mental health, especially among the [...]
Increasing percentages of some older U.S. men with intermediate-risk and high-risk prostate cancers are undergoing treatments that carry risks of side effects that can significantly reduce the quality of life without extending life, according to a new study led by Cedars-Sinai. This trend is problematic because these men may not have life expectancies that would [...]
