We use thirteen waves of the Health and Retirement Study and construct a frailty index as the number of health deficits present in a person measured relative to the number of potential deficits. We find that, on average, Americans develop 5% more health deficits per year, that men age ...
Aging in the USA: similarities and disparities across time and space Article Open access 31 August 2020 Evaluation of age-specific causes of death in the context of the Italian longevity transition Article Open access 31 December 2022 The Lifespan Disparity Dataset: An open repository on ine...
Aging in the USA: similarities and disparities across time and space We study biological aging of elderly U.S. Americans born 1904鈥 1966. We use thirteen waves of the Health and Retirement Study and construct a frailty index as the number of health deficits present in a person measured relat...
Social Networks among the Older Chinese Population in the USA: Findings from the PINE Study Background: Social network research has become central to studies of health and aging. Its results may yield public health insights that are actionable and... XQ Dong,ES Chang - 《Gerontology》 被引量...
Garth L. Nicolson The Institute for Molecular Medicine, USA Lisa Kaufman SeniorCare Options, USA Ariela Lowenstein University of Haifa, Israel Maureen Tam The Education University, Hong Kong Ping Song Georgia State University, USA Kranthi Sitammagari Campbell University, USA Amy K. Chesser...
The American Western is imbued with a particular elasticity, which allowed it to stay relevant for decades. One of the recent developments in the genre seems to be its focus on the aging frontiersman – a hero past its prime. A faithful adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel, the Coen...
Therapeutic Recreation in the Naturally Occurring Retirement Community (NORC): Benefitting "Aging in Place." Most older adults in the USA wish to continue to live in their own homes as they age. This phenomenon, known as "aging in place" has led to the identificat... R Kunstler - 《The...
Population aging could peak by 2040 in Germany and by 2070 in China, according to a new study published in the journal PLOS ONE, which combines new measures of aging with probabilistic population projections from the UN. In the USA, the study shows very
On the other hand, because older individuals tend to give a higher priority to achieving their goals in life [24], paying attention to the effort-reward imbalance of aging workforces, such as taking care of family and volunteer services, may have an impact on the sustainable employability of...
Skeletal muscle is the most abundant tissue in the adult body and a major storage site for amino acids (in the form of myofibrillar proteins) and glucose (in the form of glycogen). Skeletal muscle thereby plays an important role in many physiological processes, including carbohydrate metabolism,...