Healthy Ageing across the Life Course (HALCyon) (http://www.halcyon.ac.uk), funded by the UK New Dynamics of Ageing cross council research programme, brought together investigators on nine cohort studies covering 30,000 participants born between 1921 and 1958, to investigate how healthy ageing is affected by factors operating across the whole of life. Our focus is on three domains of healthy ag...

We are an ageing society, with falling birth rates and increasing life expectancy. However healthy life span is not keeping pace and on average older adults can expect to be unwell for the last decade of life. Many factors influence both lifespan and healthspan but in humans one of the key factors is likely to be increasing physical inactivity. To separate out those elements of the ageing pheno...

OBJECTIVE Chronic musculoskeletal pain is common in older adults but the nature of its relationship with ageing is unclear. The objective for this study was to test the hypothesis that the onset of widespread pain would be associated with a decrease in healthy ageing. METHODS Population-based prospective cohort study. A "healthy ageing" index was constructed across biomedical, physical, psych...

BACKGROUND Physical activity has been associated with improved survival, but it is unclear whether this increase in longevity is accompanied by preserved mental and physical functioning, also known as healthy ageing. We designed this study to determine whether physical activity is associated with healthy ageing in later life. METHODS We recruited a community-representative sample of 12 201 me...

The connection between quenching mechanisms, which rapidly turn star-forming systems into quiescent, and the properties of galaxy population remains difficult to discern. In this work we investigate physical MaNGA SAMI galaxies at different stages their star formation history. Specifically, compare with signatures recent (Quenched) -- $\rm H(\alpha)$ in absorption low $D_n(4000)$ rest active (R...

OBJECTIVES Attitudes to ageing exert a powerful influence on health and well-being, yet surprisingly little research has examined factors that contribute to the formation of these attitudes. The aim of this study was to consider the potential role of self-compassion in predicting attitudes to ageing, which in turn contribute to positive and negative mental well-being and self-reported health. ...

Research on healthy ageing lacks an agreed conceptual framework and has not adequately taken into account the growing evidence that social and biological factors from early life onwards affect later health. We conceptualise healthy ageing within a life-course framework, separating healthy biological ageing (in terms of optimal physical and cognitive functioning, delaying the onset of chronic di...

Research on healthy ageing lacks an agreed conceptual framework and has not adequately taken into account the growing evidence that social and biological factors from early life onwards affect later health. We conceptualise healthy ageing within a life-course framework, separating healthy biological ageing (in terms of optimal physical and cognitive functioning, delaying the onset of chronic di...