This overview summarizes the research results on depression and dementia in ethnic Chinese elderly conducted by the Gerontology Research Programme of the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. Health policies are dependent on information of evidence-based studies and it is of utmost importance to encourage research on preventive psychiatry. Interventional strategies ...

The science and study of the biological basis of aging, biogerontology, is now a well-established field with solid scientific base. A paradigm-shift in gerontology has occurred by realising the fact that biological aging occurs in spite of the presence of complex homeodynamic pathways of maintenance, repair and defence, and there is no "enemy within". This viewpoint separates the modulation of ...

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Purpose. Aging is intricate process of self-transformation in view involution body, loss sexual attractiveness, but at the same time, old age a time for reconsideration self-existence and world within coherence life sense targets their (successful) realization. Unique individual experience growing implemented Ukrainian literature (and lyrics) can complete data received by gerontology. Moreover ...

The historical underpinnings in the field of gerontology rest on the contributions of scholars across a myriad of racial and ethnic backgrounds. With the increasing diversity of the adult population, there is a need to increase the number of researchers who study older adults from diverse racial and ethnic populations in general and Black elderly people in particular. Furthermore, it is importa...

Those who have followed this journal's, and this author's, efforts over recent years to stimulate the rational design of interventions to combat aging have good reason for bewilderment that the concerted application of our knowledge of biology to the defeat of humanity's foremost killer needed to be kick-started by a bearded troublemaker whose formal academic training was not even in biology at...

PURPOSE Although participatory action research (PAR) is increasingly viewed as an important complement to traditional investigator-driven research, relatively little PAR has taken place in which older adults have been prominent partners. This article provides a review of the literature on PAR in gerontology, highlighting key studies and their implications. DESIGN AND METHODS We searched PubMe...

PURPOSE This study describes the goals, development, and outcomes of an innovative, interdisciplinary, Master of Gerontology department, one of two programs in Israel developed to answer Israel's needs for highly educated researchers and practitioners. DESIGN Key program components reflecting the program's innovative nature are described: (a) level of development and promotion of knowledge; (...

Despite the increasing importance of gerontology to medical practice, it has been difficult to incorporate it into the curriculum of most medical schools. The aim of this project was to explore the feasibility of introducing gerontology into medical education by utilizing the framework of an existing clinical program. A gerontologist used the structure and resources of a Psychiatry Consultation...

Research in the field of social gerontology has not examined rug use and abuse amont the aged despite the potential significance of this issue to many students of gerontology. This report, based on an analysis of the records of patients who were treated for acute drug reactions at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida, during 1972, examines characteristics of acute drug reactions among a ...