Lifelong learning and continued education are essential for older people who want to stay involved in a rapidly changing world. However, in the later years of life, it may be even more important to acquire the timeless and universal knowledge of wisdom. Whereas intellectual knowledge enables elderly people to stay involved in worldly affairs, wisdom-related knowledge helps them to prepare for t...

Aging is explored by multiple lines of research, in a pursuit of understanding this natural process. The motor response is usually the main dependent variable in studies regarding physical or cognitive decline in aging. It is therefore critical to understand how the motor function changes with age. The present review, aims at presenting briefly some of the most recently published works in the f...

Aging induces histological, enzyme-histochemical and ultrastructural changes in skeletal muscle fibres as atrophy, myopathic alterations and damage of the fibre type regulation. Reduction of the physical activity induces fibre atrophy and mitochondrial alterations with decline in mitochondrial oxidations. Muscle fascicles are reduced in size and perifascicular fatty infiltration is evident. Som...

The geroscience hypothesis posits that therapies to slow biological processes of aging can prevent disease and extend healthy years of life. To test such "gero-protective" therapies in humans, outcome measures are needed that can assess extension of disease-free lifespan. This need has spurred development of different methods to quantify biological aging. But different methods have not been sys...

Background Aging causes physiological changes which affect the quality of sleep. Supervised physical exercise is an important therapeutic resource to improve the sleep of the elderlies, however there is a low adherence to those type of programs, so it is necessary to implement an exercise program which is feasible and effective. The study aimed to test the hypothesis that a semi-supervised home...

BACKGROUND Physical disability is common though not inevitable in older age and has direct bearing on a person's ability to perform activities essential for self-care and independent living. Air pollution appears to increase the risk of several chronic diseases that contribute to the progression of disability. OBJECTIVE We evaluated long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) i...

Demographic studies indicate a remarkable aging trend in North America. An accurate profile of the decline in physical and cognitive capabilities over time is essential to our understanding of the aging process. This study examined the maintenance of skilled performance across the careers of 96 professional golfers. Data were collected on scoring average, driving distance, driving accuracy, gre...

All aging individuals will develop some degree of decline in cognitive capacity as time progresses. The molecular and cellular mechanisms leading to age-related cognitive decline are still not fully understood. Through our previous research, we discovered that active neural progenitor cells selectively become more quiescent in response to aging, thus leading to the decline of neurogenesis in th...

OBJECTIVES Older age continues to be seen as a period of declining health and functioning. The inevitability of declines, however, may be exaggerated, including declines for those with chronic health conditions. METHODS Data from the MacArthur Study of Successful Aging were used to examine the impact of sociodemographic, health status, health behavior, and social and psychological factors on ...