Aging in place is a concept most people desire (i.e., to live their own homes for as long possible). However, that not always possible. To account this reality, article introduces an alternative called aging of choice (a novel theoretical insight) alongside five new articles pragmatic collection practical insights) the latest issue Activities, Adaptation and Aging: Purposeful Dignified Living O...

Experimental research and older adults' reports of their own experience suggest that the ability to produce the spoken forms of familiar words declines with aging. Older adults experience more word-finding failures, such as tip-of-the-tongue states, than young adults do, and this and other speech production failures appear to stem from difficulties in retrieving the sounds of words. Recent evid...

Successful aging is a prominent framework within gerontology, yet an understanding of how adults define “successful aging” often missing in the social work discourse around what it means to age well. This cross-sectional, exploratory study used online survey explore community-dwelling adults’ (aged 55+; n=471) definition successful aging, underlying components across all definitions, and any di...

Kaehr, E., Abele, P., & Little, M. (2016). Utility of the Easy-Care Standard 2010 in the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment of Adults Aging with Developmental Disabilities. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 17(12), 1159–1160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2016.08.024 Utility of the Easy-Care Standard 2010 in the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment of Adults Aging with Deve...

Although the aging inpatient population in state psychiatric hospitals is growing significantly, there are few examples of available training to improve staff knowledge and practice. The current article describes a 10-week training series developed through a university and psychiatric hospital collaboration. Training was attended by 135 direct care nursing and rehabilitation staff and focused o...

BACKGROUND There is a growing body of literature indicating that attitudes toward aging significantly affect older adults' psychological well-being. However, there is a paucity of scientific investigations examining the role of older adults' attitudes toward aging on their spouses' psychological well-being. Therefore, the present study aimed to examine the dyadic effects of attitude toward agin...

Normal aging is associated with reduced cerebral structural integrity and altered functional brain activity, yet the association of aging with the relationship between structural and functional brain changes remains unclear. Using combined diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) modalities, we hypothesized that aging-related changes in white matter integr...

objectives: the purpose of current study was to compare the effect of aging on balance in different sensory conditions. methods & materials: in this cross sectional study we compared 20 healthy youth (with age 22.75±2.29) and 20 healthy older adults (with age 65.1±4.16) in single leg standing in different sensory conditions. sensory conditions were open eye/ hard surface (oehs), closed eye/ har...

Aging has been characterized in detail in relatively few animal species. Here we describe the aging process of a nematode with an unusual life-cycle, Strongyloides ratti. This organism has distinct parasitic and free-living reproductive adult forms, which are genetically identical. S. ratti exhibits a remarkably high degree of phenotypic plasticity of aging: the maximum lifespan of parasitic ad...

While we know that minority status differentiates the experience of aging, little research has been done to examine the ways in which patterns of successful aging may differ in diverse subgroups of older adults. In this exploratory study, we investigated and described experiences of successful aging in a sample of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) older adults. Directed by a communi...