The U.S. population age 65 and older continues to increase and is projected to nearly double from 48 million to 88 million by 2050. Elderly people are especially exposed to neurodegenerative diseases (NDs). The most common ND is Alzheimer's...被引量: 1 年份: 2017 ...
Cool extremities have been linked observationally to delayed sleep onset in the elderly, and experimentally shown to reduce sleep propensity in narcolepsy [6]. Therefore, the aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that cooling the feet would maintain vigilance during extended wakefulness in ...
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who found that self-reported long sleep durations were associated with short measured sleep duration and fragmented sleep in elderly men37. The differences between time in bed and time asleep for short sleep duration may be due to the fact that persons reporting ≤ 5 hours of time in bed ...
She has already weighed in on a few things that are important regarding her funeral. My mother and I have been to way too many funerals. Man, we have been on the funeral circuit lately. Once, many years ago we were at a funeral for an elderly relative and it was an open casket. Th...
s and chips and freaking Lucky Charms. On my way to get water I slipped cartoon style on the plastic coated bag from my college bookstore and landed with a loud thud on top of…wait for it…my upturned wedge heels. I FELL trying to get a glass of water. Like an elderly woman. I...
Competing events, such as mortality, can mask the observation of progression to dementia, especially in the population of MCI patients which is predominantly made up to older adults and the elderly. Future research will explore the impact of competing risk of death on the accuracy of these ...
A comprehensive surveillance report published by the CDC in 2022 revealed that elderly people (>75 years old), children (0–4 years old), and teens/young adults (15–24 years old) experience the highest rate of TBIs per 100,000 individuals (CDC, 2022). If left untreated, TBIs can ...
EGb 761 was unable to reduce the overall incidence rate of dementia or AD incidence in elderly individuals with normal cognition, subjective cognitive decline, or those with MCI. However, in both trials, dementia incidence was too low to draw definite conclusions regarding efficacy. In the US tr...
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