Influence of age, disease and disability on anthropometric indices in elderly Chinese aged 70 years and above.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Due to declining birthrates and an increasing aging population, shortage of the caregiving labor force has become a global issue. Among various efforts toward the solution, introducing robotic products for assistance could provide an effective way to help older adults in their daily lives. As previous studie...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Tu YC,Chien SE,Yeh SL

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies have demonstrated that measures of lower quality of care and associated adverse health effects are more prevalent in for-profit nursing homes compared to not-for-profit facilities. However, these studies omit persons who receive care in the community setting, and exclusively focus on isolated clinica...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Friedman L,Avila S,Friedman D,Meltzer W

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a need for simple clinical tools that can objectively assess the fall risk in people with dementia. Wearable sensors seem to have the potential for fall prediction; however, there has been limited work performed in this important area. OBJECTIVE:To explore the validity of sensor-derived physical ac...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Schwenk M,Hauer K,Zieschang T,Englert S,Mohler J,Najafi B

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Creatine phosphokinase (CPK) has been shown to provide the initial ATP for muscle contraction. The effect of wheel running on CPK levels was compared in hindleg and cardiac muscles of young, intermediate-age and old outbred CW-1 and inbred C57BL mice. Short-term (5 weeks) and long-term (over 12 months) regimens were u...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Steinhagen-Thiessen E,Reznick AZ

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Future time perspective has been associated with subjective well-being, though depending on the line of research considered either an open-ended future time perspective or a limited future time perspective has been associated with high well-being. Most of this research however has conceptualized future time ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Kozik P,Hoppmann CA,Gerstorf D

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrolytes and/or amino acids were determined in leg skeletal muscle biopsies from elderly (age range 57-75 years) and young (age range 20-35 years) apparently healthy women. When compared to the young group, the elderly one was characterized by increased levels of muscular Na+ and Cl-, while the calculated intracel...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Möller P,Alvestrand A,Bergström J,Fürst P,Hellström K

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although cross-sectional studies have demonstrated associations between visual contrast sensitivity and cognitive test performance, it remains unclear whether peripheral visual or perceptual factors explain the association. OBJECTIVE:We aimed at determining whether reducing static contrast of the study stim...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Anstey KJ,Butterworth P,Borzycki M,Andrews S

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The identification of modifiable health span-promoting factors is a public health priority. OBJECTIVE:To explore the socio-environmental, lifestyle, behavioural, and psychological determinants of a clinical phenotypic measure of biological ageing in the Singapore Longitudinal Ageing Study (SLAS) cohort. ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Ng TP,Zhong X,Gao Q,Gwee X,Chua DQL,Larbi A

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recruiting older adults, their family members and their home care workers as participants in research studies is particularly complicated. This might be due to medical or cognitive problems of the older adult as well as the high workload and shortage of time experienced by caregivers. The present study compa...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Green O,Ayalon L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquisition of immunologic self-tolerance by clonal deletion in the thymus is concluded to be a critical process in immune aging and is found to be transiently protected from genetic instability by means of a feedback surveillance which functions at the expense of chronic thymic involution. In the immune control of ma...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Hartwig M

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Empirical evidence for the conjecture that brain weight of mammals is a better predictor of life span than is body weight, is reexamined and evaluated in this paper. The original evidence was that for 63 mammalian species, log brain weight explained 79% of the log life span variance, whereas log body weight explained ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Economos AC

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fall incidents and their negative outcomes represent a considerable problem in hospitals, especially in geriatric wards, and require implementation of strategies to prevent these undesirable events. For this reason, the College of Geriatrics, a body funded by the Belgian Government to set up quality improvem...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Coussement J,Dejaeger E,Lambert M,Van Den Noortgate N,De Paepe L,Boonen S,Schoevaerdts D,Milisen K

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cognitively stimulating activities contribute to the accumulation of cognitive reserve that is proposed to be instrumental for maintaining cognitive functioning in aging. Adopting a novel, more general conceptual perspective including models of vulnerability, we argue that cognitive reserve may modify the lo...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Ihle A,Rimmele U,Oris M,Maurer J,Kliegel M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It has been proposed that active engagement with life may protect against cognitive decline. However, existing instruments for measuring life engagement have covered limited domains. OBJECTIVE:To present a new instrument to measure engagement with life; the RIASEC Activities List draws on activities categor...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Parslow RA,Jorm AF,Christensen H,Mackinnon A

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One of the earliest and most persistent inquiries in developmental psychology is that of the relative contributions of nature and nurture to human ontogeny. One way of studying this distinction is by doing cross-cultural studies, in which culture provides a powerful way to operationalize the influence of nur...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Luszcz M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Functional status in older people is a dynamic situation, which makes it necessary to evaluate functional capacity at different times to determinate their prognostic value. OBJECTIVE:To examine the association between functional status (baseline and change after acute illness) and mortality and functional c...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Baztán JJ,Gálvez CP,Socorro A

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A trypsin-type protease was purified to enzymatic homogeneity from human umbilical vein endothelial cells by sequential affinity chromatographies. The enzyme specifically hydrolyzed dibasic substrates with leucine at the P3 positions, but scarcely hydrolyzed the other substrates tested. The enzyme was strongly inhibit...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Kido H,Takeda M,Wakabayashi H,Tanaka S,Nishimura N,Takenaka M,Okada M

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Japan, vascular dementia (VD) has been responsible for the majority of all dementia cases in both epidemiological and neuropathological studies. Recently, however, several epidemiological investigations have shown that the rate of VD has decreased and senile dementia of the Alzheimer type (SDAT) is now th...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Seno H,Ishino H,Inagaki T,Iijima M,Kaku K,Inata T

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphopenia is a common finding in old people admitted to medical and psychiatric wards. We describe a pilot study of the clinical associations, and prognostic significance of lymphopenia in elderly persons admitted to acute medical and psychiatric wards. Consecutive patients admitted to acute medical and psychiatric ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Dennis MS,Nicolson A,Lehmann AB,Junaid O,Byrne EJ,Hopkinson N

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences between women and men in terms of gender gaps at late stages of their lives are the focus of this mini-review. We approach the matter by taking up the position of complex yet promising standpoints, the bio-psycho-social perspective on the one hand and approaches of developmental psychology on the other. Li...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Kryspin-Exner I,Lamplmayr E,Felnhofer A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of age and smoking on pharmacokinetics of pindolol and propranolol was investigated. Although there was a statistically significant difference in certain pharmacokinetic parameters (maximum plasma concentration, area under the curve, elimination constant and elimination half-life) between elderly patient...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Hitzenberger G,Fitscha P,Beveridge T,Nüesch E,Pacha W

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, Granacher et al. (2010) proposed an intergenerational approach to promoting balance and strength for fall prevention in children and elderly subjects together. Although this sounds like a stimulating idea, its effectiveness for fall prevention in both groups has yet to be demonstrated. Undoubtedly, fall prev...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Burtscher M,Kopp M

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lying on the floor for a long time after falls, regardless of whether an injury results, remains an unsolved health care problem. In order to develop efficient and acceptable fall detection and reaction approaches, it is relevant to improve the understanding of the circumstances and the characteristics of po...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Schwickert L,Klenk J,Zijlstra W,Forst-Gill M,Sczuka K,Helbostad JL,Chiari L,Aminian K,Todd C,Becker C

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective study was made of 50 consecutive cases of bacteraemia treated in a geriatric unit. The mortality rate was 24%, the highest incidence occurring amongst the cases of hospital-acquired bacteraemia where only 1 of 7 cases survived the infection. Pyrexia, acute confusion, and falls were the commonest presen...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Windsor AC

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decades, information about the characteristics of attractiveness has accumulated. We know about eight pillars of beauty, among them youthfulness, symmetry, hormone markers and body odor. But what is the biological function of these attractive signals? Is there one common function to be found in all eight...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Oberzaucher E,Grammer K

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hearing impairment (HI) is a very common condition in elderly people and the epidemiology together with hearing-related problems is still poorly investigated. Moreover, the cognitive status may be impaired in relation to hearing function. OBJECTIVE:The goal of the study was to evaluate: (a) the prevalence o...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Cacciatore F,Napoli C,Abete P,Marciano E,Triassi M,Rengo F

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We use nerve tissue cultures as a model system for studying the mode of action of centrally acting drugs. Neurons in cerebellar cultures retain a number of organ-specific properties including the formation of complex synaptic networks and characteristic bioelectric activity. Electrical activity may be recorded from Pu...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Gähwiler BH

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological rhythms of rectal temperature were documented in young (circadian variations) and elderly (circadian and seasonal variations) human subjects either in apparent good health or suffering from senile dementia of Alzheimer type (SDAT). All the subjects were synchronized. Data obtained showed a decrease of t...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Touitou Y,Reinberg A,Bogdan A,Auzéby A,Beck H,Touitou C

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dementia is a symptom of a variety of specific structural brain diseases as well as several system degenerations. Alzheimer's disease presently is the commonest cause in the developed world, causing a cortical-subcortical degeneration of ascending cholinergic neurons and large pyramidal cells in the cerebral cortex. C...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Plum F

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Myostatin has been proposed as a candidate biomarker for frailty and sarcopenia. However, the relationship of myostatin with these conditions remains inconclusive. OBJECTIVE:To determine the association of serum myostatin concentration with body composition, physical fitness, physical activity level, and fr...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Arrieta H,Hervás G,Rezola-Pardo C,Ruiz-Litago F,Iturburu M,Yanguas JJ,Gil SM,Rodriguez-Larrad A,Irazusta J

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00