She is also Deputy Director of the Centre for Lifelong Learning Research and Development in the Institute and concurrently Academic Coordinator of the HKIEd Elder Academy. Her recent research interests are elder learning and active ageing and she holds a HKIEd Internal Research Grant to conduct a ...
Chairman’s Press Statement on the Launch of the ASEAN Centre for Active Ageing and Innovation (ACAI) (3 November 2019)Author(s): Publication date: Read this article at ScienceOpen Bookmark There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ...
In our previous study, we investigated ageing and gender influences on the biophysical properties of the human finger37. The results obtained showed significant differences in finger mechanical properties, contact properties and surface topography. In addition, the results demonstrated clear anisotropy of ...
Action Plan B3 of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA) focuses on the integrated care of chronic diseases. Area 5 (Care Pathways) was initiated using chronic respiratory diseases as a model. The chronic respiratory disease action plan includes (1) AIRWAYS...
The prevalence of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) and overactive bladder (OAB) has been measured by population-based investigations in many parts of the world. However, data are lacking for Eastern Europe, and there has not been any large population-representative study in any country of th...
Action Plan B3 of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA) focuses on the integrated care of chronic diseases. Area 5 (Care Pathways) was initiated using chronic respiratory diseases as a model. The chronic respirator
Ms Jane Lim’s blog on active-ageing issues claimed in a Dec 26 post that KTPH had told her friend its anti-bedsore mattresses were only for rent for S$10 a day and not for sale, adding that each mattress cost more than S$1,000. The friend, whom she named only as “Mr F”,...
Study author, Professor Jack Cuzick, from the Cancer Research UK Centre for Epidemiology at Queen Mary, University of London, said: Taking aspirin regularly in your mid 40s could maximise the effect this drug has on preventing cancer. Taking aspirin at this age, which is about the time pre-...
(NIHR) Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre. T.A. was supported by NIH (NHGRI T32 HG002295). The authors thank Garðar Sveinbjornsson, Patrick Sulem, Ingileif Jonsdottir, and Kari Stefansson at deCODE genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland, for validating the association of rs73226617 with TB ...
Centre for Socio-Economic Research on Ageing, National Institute of Health and Science on Ageing (IRCCS INRCA), 60124 Ancona, Italy 2 Unit of Geriatric Pharmacoepidemiology and Biostatistics, National Institute of Health and Science on Ageing (IRCCS INRCA), 60124 Ancona, Italy ...