Active aging technologies are increasingly designed to support an active lifestyle. However, the way in which they can raise different barriers acceptance of and use by older adults. Their designers adopt a negative stereotype aging. Thorough understanding user requirements is central this problem. This paper investigates for that encourage lifestyle provide people with means self-manage their ...

Swallowing disorders are common in the elderly, and aging is a factor that affects swallowing function. The elevation of the hyoid bone is important for swallowing and is controlled by the suprahyoid muscles. The hyoid and laryngeal elevation allows the bolus to enter the esophagus. The suprahyoid muscles, therefore, play an important role in swallowing. The effects of aging on suprahyoid muscl...

Young adults typically deactivate specific brain regions during active task performance. Deactivated regions overlap with those that show reduced resting metabolic activity in aging and dementia, raising the possibility of a relation. Here, the magnitude and dynamic temporal properties of these typically deactivated regions were explored in aging by using functional MRI in 82 participants. Youn...

Aging is associated with performance reductions in executive function and episodic memory, although there is substantial individual variability in cognition among older adults. One factor that may be positively associated with cognition in aging is physical activity. To date, few studies have objectively assessed physical activity in young and older adults, and examined whether physical activit...

The issue of population aging is great concern to all countries in the world, and China one with more serious aging. Under situation increasingly aging, we should pay attention life elderly after retirement. Paying health behavior living conditions will contribute process successful Retirement a critical point, transition period have different effects on retired population, some literature sugg...

PURPOSE We provide an overview of theoretical models of cognitive aging and present empirical research that uses these models to explain older patients' medical behaviors and to develop interventions for improving the delivery of health information and services to older adults. DESIGN AND METHODS Theoretical accounts of age and cognition are summarized and are related to key research findings...

BACKGROUND This study tested balance behavior of young adults and aging adults with and without balance problems in response to visual flow from a moving visual surround. METHODS Balance behavior was indexed by force plate measures of maximum anterior/posterior displacement of the center of foot pressure and horizontal shear forces. The sample included normal young adults (n = 13; mean age 23...

Depressive symptomatology is a prevalent and disabling condition in older adults, considered as public health problem due to its devastating consequences reducing the chances successfully age. The objective of this study analyze role depressive risk factor for successful aging adults.

Until the mid 1990s, available evidence regarding neurocognitive aging could be summarized in a simple statement: cognitive deficits in healthy older adults are largest for tasks that are highly dependent on executive control processes because these processes are mediated by the prefrontal cortex (PFC), which is the region most disrupted by healthy aging. This view, known as the frontal lobe hy...