There are a number of studies linking social capital to oral health among older adults, although the evidence base mainly relies on cross-sectional study designs. The possibility of reverse causality is seldom discussed, even though oral health problems could potentially lead to lower social participation. Furthermore, few studies clearly distinguish between the effects of different dimensions ...

A consensually-agreed position among scholars of communication and aging is that while psychological and physical health mutually impact each other, the quality of language to and from older adult individuals shape each of these—and are shaped by them. Encounters with others inside and outside of one’s age ingroup involve stereotyped expectations with regard to language and other speec...

BACKGROUND Many criteria of successful aging are directly connected with Health-Promoting Behaviors. OBJECTIVES The current study aimed to evaluate the effect of an educational program based on the successful aging approach on health promoting behaviors in the elderly. PATIENTS AND METHODS This clinical trial study was conducted on 464 Iranian elderly people over 60 years who were admitted ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the main conceptions related to the aging process among community health agents. METHODS An exploratory descriptive qualitative study was carried out in Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil, from 2000 to 2002. Data was collected from records and interviews with 148 community health agents. The thematic analysis allowed data classification and assembling. RESULTS The results s...

Background. In the beginning of the 21st century, the world summit on population taking place in Madrid approved active ageing, WHO (2002) as the main objective of health and social policies for old people. Few studies have been done on the scientific validity of the construct. This study aims to validate the construct of active ageing and test empirically the WHO (2002) model of Active Ageing ...

BACKGROUND To address the challenges of the global aging population, the World Health Organization promoted age-friendly communities as a way to foster the development of active aging community initiatives. Accordingly, key components (i.e., policies, services and structures related to the communities' physical and social environments) should be designed to be age-friendly and help all aging ad...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The influence of genes on human lifespan is mediated by biological processes that characterize body's functioning. The age trajectories of these processes contain important information about mechanisms linking aging, health, and lifespan. The objective of this paper is to investigate regularities of aging changes in different groups of individuals, including individuals...