Aging

Male And Female Hearts Don't Age The Same Way

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Article - News Staff - Oct 20 2015 - 7:38am

Age-Associated Financial Vulnerability: It's Risky Business, Growing Old

Managing money can be difficult at any age but for older adults, changes in physical condition and life circumstances can lead to changes for the worse in financial behavior, putting their well-being in danger. Now those changes have been given a name: ag ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 26 2015 - 7:39pm

The Secret To Keeping A Younger Brain May Be Exercise

It is generally recognized that our physical fitness and our mental fitness are linked, especially as we get older, but how does being physically fit affect our aging brains? Neuroimaging studies, in which the activity of different parts of the brain can ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 26 2015 - 9:30am

Menopausez: Fluctuating Estrogen Increases Sensitivity To Stress, Depression

If you're feeling a little blue during the transition to menopause, there's good reason, according to a new study being reported online today in Menopause. The study suggests that the estradiol (a form of estrogen) fluctuation that is common dur ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 6 2015 - 3:15pm

Is Aging A Disease? New Classification Of Aging Called For

A recent paper explores the evolution of disease classification practices and the progress made since William Cullen's seminal Nosolagae Methodicae synopsis published in 1769. The paper discusses some of the additions to the ICD-10 including some of ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 11 2015 - 7:30am

No Limits: Senior Citizens Can Still Burn Energy Like Tour De France Cyclists

It may feel like old age is slowing you down, but that is not the case for everyone. A new research program found that age is no obstacle to performing well. Even as well as elite cyclists. The Department of Biomedicine and the Center for Healthy Aging at ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 13 2015 - 2:06pm

Dietary Restriction, Circadian Rhythm, And Long Life

Dietary restriction enhances the expression of the circadian clock genes in peripheral tissue, according to research in Cell Metabolism which found that dietary restriction, induced by reducing protein in the diet, increased the amplitude of circadian clo ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 28 2015 - 8:30am

Transcriptional Drift Of Youth: Antidepressant Keeps Worms In Young Adulthood Longer

Living longer usually means a longer dotage, with more pills and disease risk for more decades rather than aging well. What would be better? Extended young adulthood, when we are at our primes. ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 2 2015 - 1:19pm

Two Studies, 20 Years Apart, Show Increase In Healthy Aging

Two studies conducted 20 years apart in England reveal an apparent increase in healthy ageing, or years lived healthily, reflecting less cognitive impairment; and an increase in the proportion of life lived healthily, through a larger proportion of years ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 9 2015 - 9:00am

Living Longer And Healthier- In Mind, Not In Body

Women are now spending fewer years with cognitive impairment but more years with disability compared to 20 years ago. We're living longer but senior years are still marked by declines in physical well-being even as mental acumen remains better than i ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 9 2015 - 7:30am