Chronic illness and functional disability afflicts a significant proportion of older persons. An estimated 80–85 percent of people over age 65 have at least one chronic illness, and nearly one-half of older people report that chronic illness limits their activity to some degree. Altogether, ...
The NHATS serves as a resource to characterize later life functions among older adults and decrease disability, promote health and independent functioning, and improve the quality of life in aging older populations. Data were collected through annual interviews, in which participants completed ...
Late-life depression occurring in older adults is common, recurrent, and malignant. It is characterized by affective symptoms, but also cognitive decline, medical comorbidity, and physical disability. This behavioral and cognitive presentation results from altered function of discrete functional brain netwo...
Adversity can be conceptualized a number of ways, spanning the type, timing, and duration of a stressful experience. The measurement of stress and adversity can include the assessment of exposure to stressful events or situations, as well as people’s subjective experiences of adversity, typically ...
Individuals may respond to a movement situation in different ways, depending on their experience and on their sensory, perceptual, and cognitive functioning. Each of these functions may be viewed as a personal resource that has a developmental course of its own. Dynamic interactions among them ...
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a malignant tumor disease that poses a significant threat to human health, with high rates of mortality and disability. Recent epidemiological report [1] indicates that CRC is the second leading cause of death from malignant tumors, surpassed only by lung cancer. Despit...
Late-life depression occurring in older adults is common, recurrent, and malignant. It is characterized by affective symptoms, but also cognitive decline, medical comorbidity, and physical disability. This behavioral and cognitive presentation results fr
Some common barriers cited by older adults to these programs include health-related factors (chronic illness, functional disability, pain/discomfort, fear of falling, or thinking they are unable to be physically active) [18], environmental factors (access difficulties or lack of transportation) [19...
Understanding later-life role model choice and motivations, particularly for older men in sport, exercise, and health contexts, is complex and heterogenous, making it difficult for health and exercise promotion initiatives. This qualitative study examined: (1) whether older men have aging role models...
To gain a perspective on the magnitude and importance of lifestyle factors a recent study published in the Lancet 2022 analyzed 369 causes of death and disability along with 87 risk factors from 204 countries and territories on the global burden of cancer. In 2019, the top risk factors were ...