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Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, 2020 Globally, populations are ageing. Typically, physical activity levels decline and health worsens as we age; however, estimates of the impact of physical inactivity for population health often fail to specifically focus on older adults.
Conor Cunningham +3 more
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International Exercise Recommendations in Older Adults (ICFSR): Expert Consensus Guidelines
The Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging, 2021 The human ageing process is universal, ubiquitous and inevitable. Every physiological function is being continuously diminished. There is a range between two distinct phenotypes of ageing, shaped by patterns of living - experiences and behaviours, and in
M. Izquierdo +35 more
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GeroScience, 2020 SARS-CoV-2 virus, the causative agent of the coronavirus infectious disease-19 (COVID-19), is taking the globe by storm, approaching 500,000 confirmed cases and over 21,000 deaths as of March 25, 2020. While under control in some affected Asian countries
J. Nikolich-Žugich +5 more
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Sarcopenia in Older Adults [PDF]
Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2019 Sarcopenia was first described in 1988 as the age-related decline of skeletal muscle mass [...]
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Loneliness and social isolation interventions for older adults: a scoping review of reviews
BMC Public Health, 2020 Background Loneliness and social isolation are growing public health concerns in our ageing society. Whilst these experiences occur across the life span, 50% of individuals aged over 60 are at risk of social isolation and one-third will experience some ...
Olujoke Fakoya, N. Mccorry, M. Donnelly
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The Association between Sleep Problems, Sleep Medication Use, and Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Results from the Health and Retirement Study 2010 [PDF]
, 2016 Background. Very few studies have assessed the impact of poor sleep and sleep medication use on the risk of falls among community-dwelling older adults. The objective of this study was to evaluate the association between sleep problems, sleep medication ...
Min, Yaena +2 more
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Family Caregiving for Older Adults.
Annual Review of Psychology, 2020 Family members are the primary source of support for older adults with chronic illness and disability. Thousands of published empirical studies and dozens of reviews have documented the psychological and physical health effects of caregiving, identified ...
R. Schulz +4 more
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Actualizing Better Health And Health Care For Older Adults.
Health Affairs, 2021 By 2030 more people in the United States will be older than age sixty-five than younger than age five. Our health care system is unprepared for the complexity of caring for a heterogenous population of older adults-a problem that has been magnified by ...
T. Fulmer +5 more
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Hypertension in Older Adults [PDF]
The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 2001 The high prevalence of hypertension in older persons (nearly one of two subjects aged 60 years and older) suggests that the recognition and treatment should be a priority for physicians. Although diastolic blood pressure is regarded as an important risk factor, it is now clear that isolated systolic hypertension and elevated pulse pressure also play an
Anne-Sophie Rigaud, Bernard Forette
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A Double Burden of Exclusion? Digital and Social Exclusion of Older Adults in Times of COVID-19
The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has excluded older adults from a society based on physical social contact. Vulnerable populations like older adults also tend to be excluded from digital services because they opt not to use the internet, lack necessary devices and ...
A. Seifert, S. Cotten, Bo Xie
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