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Mental Health and Healthy Aging – Prevention and Management
Published in Goh Cheng Soon, Gerard Bodeker, Kishan Kariippanon, Healthy Ageing in Asia, 2022
Two Western researchers, Héctor García and Francesc Miralles, identified the characteristics and principles of Japanese who live longer with happiness. Their book Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life defines the rules of ikigai. The authors conducted a total of 100 interviews in Ogimi, Okinawa, to try to understand the longevity secrets of centenarians and supercentenarians. They write, “What do Japanese artisans, engineers, Zen philosophy, and cuisine have in common? Simplicity and attention to detail” (García and Miralles, 2016).
Healthy and Successful Aging
Published in Joseph P. Hou, The Healing Power of Ginseng, 2019
Have you ever imagined what it might be like to live to the age of 100 or over? The Chinese call living to one's maximum life Tian nian, meaning “living one's full life span” or maximum life span. The following text provides stories of centenarians who give their opinions as to what they did or did not do to achieve this milestone.
Introduction to the field of Gerontology
Published in Jennifer R. Sasser, Harry R. Moody, Gerontology, 2018
Jennifer R. Sasser, Harry R. Moody
Another conventional way Gerontologists respond to the fundamental complexity of aging phenomena – you’ll come across this concept quite frequently in gerontological research as well as in the assessment of how individual older adults are faring – is the idea of functional age for segments of the older adult population. Rather than using a singular chronological age, categories of age ranges are used instead: The “young-old” group is composed of adults ages 65–74; the “old-old” group, ages 75–84; and the “oldest-old” group are those persons 85 years of age and older. More recently, a “centenarian” segment has been added to reflect increasing longevity and the expansion of the number of persons 100 years of age and older.
Maintaining oral health for a hundred years and more? - An analysis of microbial and salivary factors in a cohort of centenarians
Published in Journal of Oral Microbiology, 2022
Caroline Sekundo, Eva Langowski, Diana Wolff, Sébastien Boutin, Cornelia Frese
The degree of disability, nursing care, or type of residence did not play a considerable role, although several studies have suggested associations between general frailty and the microbiome [2,77–79], some of which have also assessed the oral microbiota. For instance, Ogawa et al [2]. observed a different salivary microbiota between elderly individuals living in a nursing home and those living independently. However, it is not clear whether oral dysbiosis influences general frailty or if general frailty induces oral dysbiosis, for instance via the mediation of local factors, such as reduced oral care and increased tooth loss. The centenarians examined in this study, although many still resided at home, were all in need of care and support, which may have alleviated differences in this regard.
An immunologist’s guide to immunosenescence and its treatment
Published in Expert Review of Clinical Immunology, 2022
Calogero Caruso, Mattia Emanuela Ligotti, Giulia Accardi, Anna Aiello, Giuseppina Candore
This type of treatment might be potentially available soon thanks to cytomics technologies that are beginning to provide powerful tools that allow the analysis of a huge number of parameters simultaneously, in a single cell, both from the phenotypic and from the genetic and transcriptomic point of view. This simultaneous analysis will allow to define more precise aspects of immunosenescence, obtaining a highly reliable ‘immunological score’ with prognostic value. In addition, an effort should be made in terms of selection and recruitment of older subjects, with careful collection of demographic, clinical, and behavioral data, to correlate the immunological profile with successful or unsuccessful aging. Particular attention should be paid to the recruitment of semi and super-centenarians as well as centenarians as an example of positive biology. However, the present review shows how appreciable results in the modification of immunosenescence biomarkers can be achieved with lifestyle modification.
How Does Perceived Health Status Affect Depression in Older Adults? Roles of Attitude toward Aging and Social Support
Published in Clinical Gerontologist, 2021
Juan Liu, Wei Wei, Qingyun Peng, Ya Guo
Health status is important to older adults (Silverman, Hecht, & McMillin, 2000). On average, however, people’s health status declines with age. Perceived health status thus makes substantial contributions to the formation of attitude toward aging (Bryant et al., 2014). The influence of perceived health status on attitude toward aging and the impact of attitude toward aging on depression suggests the mediating role of attitude toward aging between perceived health status and depression. In other words, perceived health status may affect depression in older adults through their attitude toward aging. Kato, Zweig, Schechter, Barzilai, and Atzmon (2016) empirically examined the significant mediating effect of a positive attitude toward aging in the relationship between perceived health status and less depressive symptoms among Ashkenazi Jewish oldest-old (centenarians and near-centenarians). However, their sample only included the oldest-old (centenarians and near-centenarians). Centenarians and near-centenarians typically have a positive attitude toward aging and that is one of the reasons for them to reach longevity (Levy et al., 2002). Therefore, Kato et al. (2016)’s study findings need to be further tested among other age groups of older adults and in other cultural contexts. In order to investigate if perceived health status affects depression through attitude toward aging in young-old and middle-old groups who represent the majority of the elderly population, additional research needs to be conducted in a broader elderly population including young-old and middle-old.