Policies and programs designed to support ‘ageing well’ represent a key plank in government and community responses to the challenges of population ageing (1-3). Supporting ageing well might be defined as “the process of optimizing opportunities for health, participation and security in order to enhance quality of life as people age” (3 p.12). This is a broad goal, touching on virtually all the...

OBJECTIVES To study the relationships between global self-rated health, reported physical symptoms and depressive symptoms and the receipt of community services by very elderly people, and to examine changes in these variables over time. DESIGN Three-wave study with follow-up at 2.4 and 6 years after first interview. Structured interview, incorporating cognitive examination (Mini-Mental State...

BACKGROUND Is this person ill or just old? This question reflects the pondering mind of a doctor while interpreting the complaints of an elderly person who seeks his help. Many doctors think that ageing is a non-disease. Accordingly, various attempts have been undertaken to separate pathological ageing from normal ageing. However, the existence of a normal ageing process distinct from the patho...

ageing is a complex process and a broad spectrum of physical, psychological, and social changes over time. accompanying diseases and disabilities, which can interfere with cancer treatment and recovery, occur in old ages. micrornas (mirnas) are a set of small non-coding rnas, which have considerable roles in post-transcriptional regulation at gene expression level. in this review, we attempted ...

BACKGROUND The public health policy agenda oriented towards healthy ageing becomes the highest priority for the European countries. The article discusses the healthy ageing concept and its possible determinants with an aim to identify behavioral patterns related to healthy ageing in selected European countries. METHODS The healthy ageing is assessed based on a composite indicator of self-asse...

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Positive ageing and other related terms (optimal, healthy, successful, active, productive ageing) are viewed as scientific concepts, most of them operationally described by a broad set of bio-psycho-social factors, assessed through objective and subjective indicators, as well as being closely related to lay concepts reported cross-culturally by older persons. From a semantic perspective most of...

The multidimensional process of physical, psychological, and social change produced by population ageing affects not only the quality of life of elderly people but also of our societies. Some dimensions of population ageing grow and expand over time (e.g. knowledge of the world events, or experience in particular situations), while others decline (e.g. reaction time, physical and psychological ...

Ageing and degradation has been accomplished on Microstructured Polymer Optical Fiber (MPOF) by changing simulated ambient environmental condition to ascertain their suitability in possible automotive application. Both single Moded Microstructured Polymer Optical Fiber (SM-MPOF) and Graded Index Microstructured Polymer Optical Fiber (GI-MPOF) has been studied for physical ageing and chemical de...