A decline in the main sensory modalities is well reported to occur with ageing. This article outlines the normal pathways involved in touch sensation and includes a review of available evidence relating to the study of ageing and touch. The authors try to use what is known about the neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of ageing to explain the impact on some broad functional deficits seen in the el...

Project acronym: Robot-Era Project title: Implementation and integration of advanced Robotic systems and intelligent Environments in real scenarios for ageing population Funding scheme: Large-scale integrating project (IP) Call identifier: FP7-ICT-2011.7 Challenge: 5 – ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance Objective: ICT-2011.5.4 ICT for Ageing and Wellbeing Project website addr...

Project acronym:Robot-Era Project title:Implementation and integration of advanced Robotic systems and intelligent Environments in real scenarios for ageing population Funding scheme: Large-scale integrating project (IP) Call identifier: FP7-ICT-2011.7 Challenge: 5 – ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance Objective: ICT-2011.5.4 ICT for Ageing and Wellbeing Project website addres...

D ue to increasing life expectancy and low fertility, the European Union (EU) is an ageing society. Currently, 16% of its population is aged .65 yrs compared with an estimated 7% for the entire world. Further ageing of the EU population is projected over the next two decades, as shown in figure 1 for the UK, whose current population aged .65 yrs is identical to the EU average. By 2021, nearly 1...

As we enter into a novel demographic post-transition period characterized by ageing and potentially shrinking populations, there is clearly a need for a new population and development paradigm as the old paradigms have not dealt with these historically recent population changes. We are thus in search of a new population policy approach for ageing and shrinking populations as well as for sustain...

Alterations in the blood brain barrier in ageing cerebral cortex in relationship to Alzheimer-type pathology: a study in the MRC-CFAS population neuropathology cohort, Neuroscience This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, types...