Normal Aging
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Translate the available knowledge on ageing and dehydration into main messages for clinical practice. Older people are more susceptible to dehydration than younger people. This is partly due to lack of thirst sensation and changes in the... more
Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience. It's recognized to be modified by individual memory, expectation, and emotion. The most accurate evidence of pain and its intensity is based on patient's description... more
Aging is associated with progressive losses in function across multiple systems, including sensation, cognition, memory, motor control, and affect. The traditional view has been that functional decline in aging is unavoidable because it... more
Dietary restriction (DR) remains the most powerful and general environmental manipulation of aging processes in laboratory animals with strong beneficial effects on most age-related degenerative changes throughout the body. Underlying the... more
Introduction: Preclinical phases have been established in the more common forms of dementia such as Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia. Characterization of the prodromal phases has advanced as well, but not enough to allow for... more
Examining the role of culture and cultural perceptions of aging and dementia in the recognition, diagnosis, and treatment of age-related cognitive impairment remains an understudied area of clinical neuropsychology. This paper describes a... more
Histological studies have suggested differing involvement of the hippocampal subfields in ageing and in... more
Elders are the fastest growing segment of our population. In fact, we are in the middle of a longevity revolution. They account for 50% of hospital days and fill 60–70% of hospital beds; in addition, they make up 70% of homecare patients... more
There is a growing body of evidence to support a role for oxidative stress in Alzheimer's disease (AD), with increased levels of lipid peroxidation, DNA and protein oxidation products (HNE, 8-HO-guanidine and protein carbonyls... more