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Mobilising people as assets for active ageing promotion: a multi-stakeholder perspective on peer volunteering initiatives
BackgroundSuccessful peer volunteering is central to many community-based, active ageing initiatives. This study synthesises the perspectives of a...
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Gender distribution among geriatricians: perspective from an ageing and develo** country
PurposeGeriatrician numbers are increasing year by year in Turkey. We aimed to obtain information on licensed geriatricians, trainees, and board of...
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A longitudinal view of successful aging with HIV: role of resilience and environmental factors
PurposeThe purpose of this study is to estimate the extent to which people aging with HIV meet criteria for successful aging as operationalized...
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Multi-centre cross-sectional study on vascular remodelling in children following successful coarctation correction
Coarctation of the aorta is an arteriopathy with life-long sequelae, with remarkably increased cardiovascular events in young adults even after...
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Active ageing – perspectives on health, participation, and security among older adults in northeastern Thailand – a qualitative study
BackgroundHealth, participation, and security are the basic pillars of active ageing suggested by the WHO. The concept is used by professionals but...
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Being actively engaged in life in old age: determinants, temporal trends, and prognostic value
PurposeRecently, the concept of successful ageing has shifted from healthy ageing to active ageing, the latter emphasising even more the subjective...
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Pre-frailty factors in community-dwelling 40–75 year olds: opportunities for successful ageing
BackgroundThere is little known about pre-frailty attributes or when changes which contribute to frailty might be detectable and amenable to change....
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Chondroitin 6-sulphate is required for neuroplasticity and memory in ageing
Perineuronal nets (PNNs) are chondroitin sulphate proteoglycan-containing structures on the neuronal surface that have been implicated in the control...
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Theory and Design of the Community for successful ageing (ComSA) program in Singapore: connecting BioPsychoSocial health and quality of life experiences of older adults
BackgroundDespite the emphasis on holistic health promotion in community programs for older people, few studies explicitly consider how...
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A feasibility, randomised controlled trial of Club Connect: a group-based healthy brain ageing cognitive training program for older adults with major depression within an older people’s mental health service
BackgroundUsing the RE-AIM (reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation, maintenance) framework, we outline steps taken to implement an...
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Uncovering the treatable burden of severe aortic stenosis in Australia: current and future projections within an ageing population
BackgroundWe aimed to address the paucity of information describing the treatable burden of disease associated with severe aortic stenosis (AS)...
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Exploring the implementation of the Community for Successful Ageing (ComSA)program in Singapore: lessons learnt on program delivery for improving BioPsychoSocial health
BackgroundThe Community for Successful Ageing (ComSA) program has implemented overlap** BioPsychoSocial (BPS) components as part of a Community...
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Molecular basis of ageing in chronic metabolic diseases
AimOver the last decades, the shift in age distribution towards older ages and the progressive ageing which has occurred in most populations have...
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Peer-led exercise program for ageing adults to improve physical functions - a randomized trial
BackgroundA peer-led exercise program is one way to empower people sharing similar characteristics to encourage others to be active, but there is a...
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Exploring domains, clinical implications and environmental associations of a deep learning marker of biological ageing
Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have been recently developed for the estimation of Biological Age (BA), the hypothetical underlying age of an organism,...
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Ageing and mobility—motor control in the circle of life
Ageing starts with the first day of life. The way in which we and our musculoskeletal system age depends greatly upon how much we move. From the very...
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What intensity of exercise is most suitable for the elderly in China? A propensity score matching analysis
BackgroundThe strategy of successful ageing is an important means to deal with the challenges of the current ageing society. This paper aims to...
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Factors Affecting Trends in Societal Indicators of Ageing Well in Hong Kong: Policies, Politics and Pandemics
ObjectivesTo document the trend in a quality of life indicator for the older Hong Kong population as an assessment of the impact of age friendly city...