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Welfare State as a Global Ideal
Published in Rui Nunes, Healthcare as a Universal Human Right, 2022
Population aging has also been associated with a reduced birth rate and a significant change in family archetypes. Factors such as family planning, public policies of gender equality (European Commission 2019) with equalization in the labor market, and capabilities expansion (Nunes 2020), or even reduced expectations about the future have led to an inevitable decrease in motivation to procreate. This change dramatically marked the end of the baby boom of the 1950s with a sharp and hardly reversible reduction in the fertility rate in most civilized countries, thus hampering the generational transition itself in most modern democracies. According to the 2018 Aging Report (European Commission 2017), the average life expectancy in 2070 will be 85.9 for men and 90.4 for women; it is estimated that during this century, the average life expectancy may exceed 90 years.
Traditional Malay Ulam for Healthy Ageing
Published in Goh Cheng Soon, Gerard Bodeker, Kishan Kariippanon, Healthy Ageing in Asia, 2022
Jamia Azdina Jamal, Khairana Husain
The World Health Organization defines healthy ageing as “the process of developing and maintaining the functional ability that enables wellbeing in older age”. Functional ability is the capability to do something that everyone has a reason to be grateful for (WHO 2020). Ageing is commonly associated with the risk of having non-communicable chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer, as well as cognitive decline and dementia. It is suggested that many of these diseases can be prevented, delayed or improved by managing lifestyle factors such as diet, physical activity, education, mental activity and social activity (Quach et al. 2017; Clare et al. 2017). Poor dietary habits have a direct impact on health, often resulting in an increase in body mass index (BMI) and obesity or malnutrition.
Lifestyle Medicine for the Older Adult Population
Published in James M. Rippe, Manual of Lifestyle Medicine, 2021
There is a decrease in muscle function and strength associated with aging. These can also be ameliorated to some degree by regular physical activity, including both aerobic physical activity and resistance strength training as well as nutritional strategies based on general guidance for healthy nutrition and adequate levels of protein and vitamin D.
Integrative multiomics analysis reveals host-microbe-metabolite interplays associated with the aging process in Singaporeans
Published in Gut Microbes, 2022
Liwei Chen, Tingting Zheng, Yifan Yang, Prem Prashant Chaudhary, Jean Pui Yi Teh, Bobby K. Cheon, Daniela Moses, Stephan C. Schuster, Joergen Schlundt, Jun Li, Patricia L. Conway
Aging is a physiological process that is affected by multiple factors from genetics to environmental factors, including healthy diet, physical activity, smoking and alcohol consumption, and age-related chronic health conditions.1,2 Considerable attention has been given to the development of effective strategies against aging. Massive evidence indicates that average telomere length (TL) could act as a biomarker for biological aging,3 and recent animal studies reveal the connection of the telomere length and the gut microbiota.4,5 Moreover, large amount of data have revealed that dietary antioxidant supplementation such as Vitamins C and E, polyphenols, carnosine and lipoic acid, have significant anti-aging effects.6 Caloric restriction might prolong lifespan by regulating insulin-like growth factor (IGF) and the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway.7 Moreover, gut microbiota-derived metabolites may have important effects on human longevity. For example, metformin is a promising anti-aging molecule and its pro-longevity effect has been found to be indirectly mediated by its influence on bacteria.8
Gut microbiota mediates the inhibition of lymphopoiesis in dietary-restricted mice by suppressing glycolysis
Published in Gut Microbes, 2022
Si Tao, Yiting Wang, Chenghui Yu, Rongrong Qiu, Yanjun Jiang, Jie Jia, Zhendong Tao, Liu Zhang, Bing Zou, Duozhuang Tang
Under the increasing pressure of an aging population, studies have shown growing interest regarding the prevention and amelioration of aging related pathologies and diseases. Dietary restriction (DR), a 20%–40% reduction in daily food intake without leading to malnutrition,1 has been intensively studied since 1935, when it was shown to double the lifespan of experimental rats, and was proven to prevent or retard the development of various aging-related pathologies and diseases, such as cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.1–6 Therefore, DR holds a promising hope to help release the heavy medical burden of aging societies. However, despite the unambiguously documented beneficial effects of DR on health parameters, there are conflicting results about the improvement on overall survival and lifespan by DR in primates7–9 and different mouse strains.10–12 Previously we have shown that DR is a double-edged sword to the hematopoietic system, with significant negative effects on the lymphoid lineage which leads to deficiencies in anti-infection activities, despite the beneficial effects on retarding hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) aging.13 Indeed other studies have also demonstrated considerable concerns on the severe immune-suppressive effects of DR in both humans and nonhumans.14–18 Therefore, for wider and more practical applications of DR, it would be important to explore the underlying mechanisms of how DR suppresses lymphoid system.
A research on the effects of successful aging on the acceptance and use of technology of the elderly
Published in Assistive Technology, 2022
Aging is a crucial process in which physical, mental, social, and psychological declines are observed. The developing technology has led to the expansion of the network and promising developments in the medical field. Individuals who are faced with social decline due to aging can adapt to the aging process less than young people (Czaja et al., 2006). The fact that the internet started to make life easier and become compatible with technological tools has enabled the social, physical, mental, and psychological improvement of the elderly (Heinz et al., 2013). Elderly people who suffer from lack of socialization and communication via physical problems can eliminate these problems by using internet and smartphones (Orpwood et al., 2010). Adaptation to technology is associated with increased physical and cognitive abilities (Alvseike & Brønnick, 2012), falls and physical disabilities arising particularly in the age of 60 years and over (Clark, Bond, & Sanchez, 1999; Wang, Rau, & Salvendy, 2011) and decline in visual abilities (Tinetti & Williams, 1998).