CONTEXT Both elder self-neglect and abuse have become increasingly prominent public health issues. The association of either elder self-neglect or abuse with mortality remains unclear. OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship of elder self-neglect or abuse reported to social services agencies with all-cause mortality among a community-dwelling elderly population. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPA...

Age progression is the process of modifying a photograph of a person to represent the effect of aging on their appearance. I proposed to create an application that displays the entire age progression of people face throughout their life time. Given a portrait picture of an adult, the application shows how the person change from a baby face into an elder face. An interactive application with a s...

A review of wireless sensors and sensor networks, especially for in-home monitoring of elderly people, has been presented in this paper. The characteristics of various sensors for monitoring applications have been studied. The requirements of the sensor for making a smart sensor network have been investigated. A typical in-house developed system for home monitoring and elder-care application ha...

Running Title: Age-dependent regulation of TRPV5 and TRPV6 Abstract Aging is associated with alterations in Ca 2+ homeostasis, which predisposes elder people to hyperparathyroidism and osteoporosis. Intestinal Ca 2+ absorption decreases with aging and in particular active transport of Ca 2+ by the duodenum. In addition, there are age-related changes in renal Ca 2+ handling. To examine age-relat...

Background: The aim was to examine the validity of a new measure, Te Waka Kuaka, in assessing the cultural needs of Māori with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Methods: Māori from around Aotearoa, New Zealand were recruited. 319 people with a history of TBI, their whānau (extended family members), friends, work associates, and interested community members participated. All completed the 46-item m...

This paper presents an autobiographical and biographical historical account of the genesis, evolution and resolution of the Elder Problem. It begins with John W. Elder and his autobiographical story leading to his groundbreaking work on natural convection at Cambridge in the 1960’s. His seminal work published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics in 1967 became the basis for the modern benchmark of...

This paper is twofold. First, we present a new method for collective intention recognition based on mainstream philosophical accounts. Second, we extend our previous Elder Care system with collective intention recognition ability for assisting a couple of elderly people. The previous system was just capable of individual intention recognition, and so it has now been enabled to deal with situati...

eparate paradigms and services for elder abuse and domestic violence raise the concern that S intimate partner violence in older couples is under-recognised (Box). These paradigms are associated with age-specific characteristics, with very different implications for management when compared with younger age groups. In addition, there is also a higher risk of death in older domestic violence vic...