Academic Articles & Research Papers

Comparative efficacy of exercise interventions for cognitive health in older adults: A network meta-analysis

Background: Previous studies have consistently demonstrated that exercise mitigates cognitive decline in older adults. However, the most effective types of exercise, along with optimal frequency and duration of interventions, remain inadequ...

Fluidity in filial piety: twenty-year associations of living arrangements on depression and life satisfaction and across chronic diseases among older adults in rural China

Abstract Objectives Based on defamilization, individualization, and contingent intergenerational solidarity theories, this study developed a cultural defamilization framework. Longitudinal data were used to explore changes in the associatio...

Advances in the Development of PET Ligands Targeting Histone Deacetylases for the Assessment of Neurodegenerative Diseases

Epigenetic alterations of gene expression have emerged as a key factor in several neurodegenerative diseases. In particular, inhibitors targeting histone deacetylases (HDACs), which are enzymes responsible for deacetylation of histones and ...

Tailored antihypertensive drug therapy prescribed to older women attenuates circulating levels of interleukin-6 and tumor necrosis factor-α

Juliana O Toledo,1 Clayton F Moraes,2,3 Vinícius C Souza,2 Audrey C Tonet-Furioso,2 Luís CC Afonso,4 Cláudio Córdova,3 Otávio T Nóbrega1,2 1Graduate Program in Health Sciences, 2Graduate Program in...

Dementia in the old age: a gloomy wood later in life

Dementia incidence is growing at an impressive rate worldwide, mostly affecting old age subjects. Looking and considering the disease as the same in younger adult does not seem the successful way to find a proper solution regarding preventi...

Correlation between frailty and reduction in cortical thickness in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Abstract Physical inactivity and cognitive impairment in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can lead to frailty and poor prognoses. However, little is known regarding the association between frailty and the human bra...

Crossing frontiers: gerontology emerges as a science

Introduction Two Precursors Keywords OLD AGE BECOMES A 'PROBLEM' WORTH INVESTIGATING SCIENTIFICALLY 1. Surveying the Frontiers of Aging 2. Setting Boundaries for Disciplined Discoveries 3. Establishing Outposts for Multidisciplinary Researc...

Gerontology

Gerontology is the study of aging and old age. This remit is extremely broad, encompassing a large range of topics, disciplines, and methods, and requires a good understanding of the biological, clinical, economic, psychological, and social...

GERONTOLOGY AS A DISCIPLINE

This paper discusses four well‐attested criteria by which a given “subject area” might be judged to be or not to be an “academic discipline.” What can be said of “gerontological studies” under each of these criteria? In what ways might “ger...

Handbook of Social Gerontology.

Social gerontology is concerned with the phenomena of aging which are related to man as a member of the social group. This handbook is addressed to research workers, teachers, and graduate students as a text and as a guide. Over 50 colleges...

Geographical Gerontology: The constitution of a discipline

Effect Size Guidelines, Sample Size Calculations, and Statistical Power in Gerontology

Abstract Background and Objectives Researchers typically use Cohen’s guidelines of Pearson’s r = .10, .30, and .50, and Cohen’s d = 0.20, 0.50, and 0.80 to interpret observed effect sizes as small, medium, or large, respectively. However, t...

Is Gerontology Interdisciplinary?

UNIVERSITIES and colleges often espouse the value of interdisciplinary study, and gerontology is frequently cited as an exemplar of an interdisciplinary field of inquiry. It could be argued that this characterization has been good for geron...

Perspectives and Problems in Cutaneous Gerontology

Nutrition in Gerontology

Current Gerontology and Geriatrics Research

Current Gerontology and Geriatrics Research publishes research based on molecular, cellular, organismal aspects of gerontological research and in diagnosis, treatment, evaluation and educational aspects of geriatrics research....

Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology.

Part 1 Human ageing. Part 2 Clinical medicine and old age: cardiovascular system central nervous system gastrointestinal system the endocrine system the respiratory system musculoskeletal system blood other clinical topics. Part 3 Medical a...

Gerontology

With millions of men and women growing older, baffled by changes in themselves and in the world around them, the country has a definite need for not only large scale provisions for their care but also for a specific and individual service f...

Qualitative Gerontology

This commentary examines four articles in qualitative and humanistic gerontology, with the purpose of explicating the goals of such work, the criteria that make them exemplary, and the contribution they make to an enriched understanding of ...

Disciplining Old Age: The Formation of Gerontological Knowledge

In Disciplining Old Age Stephen Katz gives us a sophisticated and theoretically rigorous approach to what gerentology does. He deftly and subtly combines the theories of Foucault, Bourdieu, and the Althusser in his analysis of what he calls...