Mental health is important in older age; neighborhood environment is considered a protective factor of depression. Research has established that a critical indicator of neighborhood environment, street connectivity, is related to older people's health. H
Accordingly, the aim of this participant preference feasibility study was to explore older adults’ participation in a four-month self-managed fall prevention exercise intervention, comparing a digital exercise programme (DP) and a paper booklet (PB). We specifically aimed to describe the particip...
Finally, greater sleep irregularity was associated with increased perceived stress and depression, psychiatric factors integrally tied to cardiometabolic disease. These results suggest that the SRI is a useful measure of sleep regularity in older adults. Additionally, sleep irregularity may represent a ...
In older adults, spending at least 30 min outdoors each day lowers depressive symptoms, reduces the fear of falling, and improves levels of self-reported functioning [6, 7]. Low frequency of going outdoors is associated with increased risks of experiencing musculoskeletal pain [7], problems with...
Personalised Care Planning offers an anticipatory, preventative approach to supporting older adults to live independently for longer, but it has not been robustly evaluated in a population of older adults with frailty. Methods Following an initial feasibility study, this multi-centre, individually ...
Happiness was highest among the youngest adults and those in their early seventies. But the people least likely to report feeling negative emotions were those in their seventies and eighties. The survey also found that men and women had similar emotional patterns as they grow older. However, ...
So even though we might think of startups as the domain of younger people, many older adults are well-suited for entrepreneurship. After all, today's seniors grew up in a time that had more family businesses, and many of them know what it takes to be successful. In fact, a lot of ...
Furthermore, physical activity is increasingly documented as a protective factor associated with a lower incidence of cognitive impairment and dementia, providing benefits to adults and younger older adults [12, 13]. However, the evidence regarding these associations among the oldest-old (aged 80 or...
with cognitive health either directly or through effects on dietary habits, routine activity patterns, or vascular risk factors. The overall goal of this study is to investigate whether and how availability of healthy foods is associated with cognition among older adults....
Working memory (WM) is a fundamental cognitive function that typically declines with age. Previous studies have shown that targeted WM training has the potential to improve WM performance in older adults. In the present study, we investigated whether a m