Introduction: The process of aging is essentially defined by a decline in various physical and mental processes that take place within the human body. Healthy aging is not only accompanied by a decline in cognitive processing, but also motor function, in particular an increase in the slowness of movements and a loss of coordination. Functional brain imaging has indicated that age-related change...

Epigenetic alterations during aging have been proposed to contribute to decline in physical and cognitive functions, and accelerated epigenetic aging has been associated with disease and all-cause mortality later in life. In this study, we estimated epigenetic age dynamics in groups with different memory trajectories (maintained high performance, average decline, and accelerated decline) over a...

world population aging is a phenomenon we are confronting with, more than past. this fact has different implications for today’s societies. one of these aspects is workforce (1). some factors have resulted in more tendencies of workers to remain in their works including: economic, societal, cultural factors, and social trends and laws such as increasing age of retirement in the middle twentieth...

conclusions the influences of various facilities and barriers were different in the physical activity of elderly in kashan. the promotion of active life style should be a part of health care planning in elderly. background the supplements and decreasing the limitations are important for suitable physical activity. these factors are different in various environments. objectives the current study...

A decline in the physical or mental health of older dogs can be a challenge for the owners, whose relationship with their dog is compromised by the cognitive and behavioral changes in their dogs. Although dog owners tend to consider many physiological and behavioral changes in old dogs as part of the normal aging process, it is important to differentiate between normal aging and pathologic agin...

To assess the directionality of the association between physical and cognitive decline in later life, we compared patterns of decline in performance across groups defined by baseline presence of cognitive and/or physical impairment [none (n = 217); physical only (n = 169); cognitive only (n = 158), or both (n = 220)] in a large sample of participants in a cognitive aging study at the Knight Alz...

INTRODUCTION Walking speed is a meaningful marker of physical function in the aging population. While it is a primarily physical measure, experimental studies have shown that merely priming older adults with negative stereotypes about aging results in immediate declines in objective walking speed. What is not clear is whether this is a temporary experimental effect or whether negative aging ste...