BACKGROUND We aimed to examine the course of depression during 2-year follow-up in a group clinically depressed older persons. Subsequently, we studied which socio-demographic and clinical characteristics predict a depression diagnoses at 2-year follow-up. METHODS Data were used from the Netherlands Study of Depression in Older persons (NESDO; N = 510). Diagnoses of depression DSM-IV-TR crite...

The discovery of effective interventions to prevent or delay disability in older persons is a public health priority. Most likely to benefit from such interventions are frail individuals who are not yet disabled and those with early disability who are at high risk of progression. In spite of this frail older persons have often been excluded from research on the assumption that they would not to...

BACKGROUND Brain areas that are involved in cognition and mood also play a role in pain processing. OBJECTIVE The goal of the present study was to examine the relationship between chronic pain and cognition [executive functions (EF) and memory], while controlling for mood, in cognitively intact older persons and in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHODS Two groups of subjects parti...

BACKGROUND Traditional paradigms for the study of ocular-motor control restrain subject motion and have not adequately quantified the sensorimotor strategies used by older persons to control gaze while performing activities of daily living. The purpose of our study was to describe eye-head-trunk coordination during a functional activity in freely moving community-dwelling older persons. METHO...

Purpose: The concept of security is related to the experience of health but has ever so often been argued from a risk perspective rather than from a promotional perspective. The experience of older persons’ sense of security in private homes and in nursing homes seems to be missing when it comes to promote aging well throughout the life span. This study aimed to describe and analyze factors rel...

BACKGROUND Changes in function of sensory organs with increasing age have significant impact on health and wellbeing of older persons. This paper describes cataract, a chronic eye condition, self-reported among older adults in Ghana and the need for improving access to eye care services. METHODS This work was based on the World Health Organization's multi-country Study on global AGEing and ad...