Older adults acquire HIV, but prevention focuses on young people
Credit: Public Pixabay / CC0 domain Prevention and treatment campaigns do not adequately target the special needs of the age ...
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Study finds RSV vaccine highly effective in protecting older adults from severe illness, hospitalization and death
Credit: CC0 Public domain A multi-state study, published in The Lancetis one of the first analyzes of real-world data on ...
Study finds ‘brain endurance training’ boosts older adults’ cognitive and physical abilities
Mean (SE) performance of walking, standing, and arm curl exercises as a function of group (BET, exercise, control), test (pre-, ...
New study shows older adults’ decision-making strategies are just as complex as those of younger adults
Older adults select different, but not simpler, strategies than younger adults when making risky choices. Credit: PLOS Computational Biology (2024). ...
Multiple Surgeries May Contribute to Cognitive Decline in Older Adults
Brain maps of associations of DKT cortical regions with surgical interventions (β coefficients). Credit: The Lancet: healthy longevity (2024). DOI: ...
Older people are more influenced by others’ impulsive actions when making financial decisions, new study finds
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Older people are more likely to be influenced by others' impulsive financial preferences than their younger ...
Lack of motivation and personal growth in older adults may precede mild cognitive impairment
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Feelings that your life lacks meaning and that there are few opportunities for personal growth in ...
The use of the decimal point is a century and a half older than historians thought
Excerpt from Bianchini’s “Compositio instrumenti”. Reproduced with permission from the Biblioteca Estense di Modena (Cod. Lat. 145, f. 7r). Credit: ...
New elderly care robot could soon provide personal assistance, improving quality of life for older people
General diagram of ADAM elements seen from the front and back. Credit: Frontiers of neurorobotics (2024). DOI: 10.3389/fnbot.2024.1337608 Around the ...
Older people rely more on confidence in decision-making. This could expose them to scams
Task performance for (A) younger and (B) older adults in the standard Iowa gaming task (IGT; dashed red line), the ...
