SuperAgers: What Exceptional Memory After 80 Reveals About Brain Health
Discover what Northwestern’s SuperAger research reveals about exceptional memory after 80, brain resilience, social connections and healthy ageing.
The AgeTech Market 2026: a $286 Billion Global Market
The global ageing population is reshaping economies, healthcare systems and consumer markets at an unprecedented pace. To better understand the technologies emerging from this transformation, SilverEconomy.com has released The AgeTech Market Report 2026, the first report to comprehensively quantify the global AgeTech market and identify its key growth segments.
Aging: Our environment weighs more heavily than our genes
#Aging: Our #environment weighs more #heavily than our #genes
Suicide among the elderly: A still-taboo reality
#Suicide among the #elderly: A still-#taboo reality
The rise in life expectancy in Europe is slowing down: causes and risk factors
The #rise in #life #expectancy in #Europe is slowing down: #causes and #risk factors
Employees in higher-level occupations outlive manual workers. How long do they live in retirement or (in)activity ?
Employees in higher-level occupations outlive manual workers. How long do they live in retirement or (in)activity ? @INEDEng
Ageing and imprisonment: how to identify the needs of older prisoners
Ageing in prison is the subject of the new International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) report, published in October 2018. It explains how to identify and meet the needs of a very peculiar population: older prisoners.
The secret of living longer: intermittent periods of fasting
Fasting may have anti-ageing effects, increasing your lifespan and helping healthy ageing, according to a Harvard University Study.
10 Priorities for a Decade of Action on Healthy Ageing : how we should face the ageing of the world’s population
Today, most people are living longer and a significant proportion of the world’s population are older people. By 2050, the world’s population of people over the age of 60 will double. This demographic change has strong implications for sustainable development. As people grow older, their health outcomes, needs and what they value can change. Supporting
New BDO report: “The elderly are not as healthy in old age as expected”
Prevention and rehabilitation are key to value-based elderly care: “the elderly are not as healthy in old age as expected”. The new BDO report, published in June 2018, puts the light on “the inappropriate response of the health care system to an ageing population”.
2018 Ageing Report: Europe’s population is getting older
The 2018 Ageing Report, published in May 2018, shows that fiscal costs linked to pensions, health care and long-term care are expected to rise over the coming decades, as Europe’s population continues to age significantly.
According to a recent study, cannabis would help reduce pain for elderly
According to an Israeli study published in February 2018, cannabis could be use for improving the quality of life of elderly currently treated with opioids.
Older Hospitalized Adults Are Infrequently Tested for Influenza
This year’s flu season is shaping up to be an especially serious one, and it’s important for clinicians to promptly recognize, diagnosis, and treat influenza in hospitalized patients, especially in vulnerable populations such as older individuals. A new study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, however, indicates that adults aged 65 years
Study Uncovers Healthcare Disparities among Octogenarians and Nonagenarians with Advanced Lung Cancer
A new study reveals that, among patients of advanced age with stage III lung cancer, African Americans and individuals who live in lower income areas are more likely to not receive any treatment. Published online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study also found that patients who receive the standard
Germany, one of the “super-aged” societies in the world
According to aarpinternational.org, Germany is currently one of five “super-aged” societies in the world, and its population of those age 65 and older will continue to grow, reaching nearly one-third of the total population by 2050. > Download the full AARP Germany report
Almost a million older people feel lonelier at Christmas
New research for Age UK shows that nearly a million (928,000) older people feel lonelier at Christmas time.
Pensions reforms have slowed in OECD countries but need to continue, says OECD
Pensions at a Glance 2017 says that public spending on pensions for the OECD as a whole has risen by about 1.5% of GDP since 2000. However, the pace of spending growth is projected to slow substantially. At the same time, recent reforms will lower the incomes of many future pensioners. People will live longer
Poverty of ageing Japanese population fuelling “silver crime” wave
Nearly one in four elderly Japanese convicts is reoffending and ending up back behind bars within two years of being released, according to new government figures.
Yoga reduces falls among the elderly, a study suggests
University of Wisconsin–Madison professor of family medicine Irene Hamrick reports that the number of falls in older adults dropped 48 percent in the 6 months after a yoga class began, compared to the 6 months previous. Indeed, a study, now online in Complementary Therapies in Medicine, looked at older, rural adults who attended yoga classes
Is Norway the best place to get old?
A new barometer has been developed that estimates how countries are adapting to the increases in the number and proportion of elderly people. This Index is composed of specific measures across social and economic indicators that reflect the status and wellbeing of older persons in a country. The five countries in the index coping best
New findings suggest a genetic influence on aging into the 90s but not beyond
Variants of a gene thought to be linked to longevity appear to influence aging into the 90s, but do not appear to affect exceptional longevity, or aging over 100, a new study has found. The findings have been published in the Journals of Gerontology: Biological Sciences.
Germany: more and more poor elderly
According to a study on elderly’s financial insecurity published by the DIW (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung), poverty among elderly tends to gain ground in Germany. « This phenom would affect more persons that have been through a long period of unemployement, such as mothers », says Peter Haan, co-author of the study.
World population projected to reach 9.8 billion in 2050, and 11.2 billion in 2100
The current world population of 7.6 billion is expected to reach 8.6 billion in 2030, 9.8 billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion in 2100, according to a new United Nations report being launched this week. With roughly 83 million people being added to the world’s population every year, the upward trend in population size is
What about making your brain younger thanks to cannabis?
Cannabis, and especially its main ingredient THC, is known for its effects on the body and the brain. These effects appear in very different ways, depending on personal features such as age. But surprisingly, teams of researchers at the University of Bonn and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem found something surprising thanks to their study
Video games, a second youth for elderly people
Many studies suggest, that using our brain regularly, while playing video games or serious games, allows “to limit the time’s effects”.
Elevated blood pressure not a high mortality risk for elderly with weak grip
A study of nearly 7,500 Americans age 65 or older suggests that elevated blood pressure is not related to high mortality risk among people in that age group with weak grip strength.
NIH-funded study of brain training makes TIME “List of top scientific discoveries of the year”
TIME Magazine has selected the impact on dementia of a brain training exercise as one of the 100 New Scientific Discoveries of 2016.
China: Post-lunch napping tied to better cognition in elderly
Moderate post-lunch napping is tied to better cognition in older adults, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
Number of older adults in the USA expected to surge, highlighting need for accessible housing and policy improvements
By 2035, more than one in five people in the USA will be aged 65 and older and one in three households will be headed by someone in that age group, according to Projections and Implications for Housing a Growing Population: Older Adults 2015-2035, a report released last week by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.