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Creativity and Healthy Ageing: Future Research Directions
The fact that the world population is ageing brings about societal challenges, but at the same time creates new opportunities for more creative and...
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Chromatin Structure from Development to Ageing
Nuclear structure influences genome architecture, which contributes to determine patterns of gene expression. Global changes in chromatin dynamics...
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Optimum Sleep for Healthy Ageing
In most cultures the age-old saying, health is wealth has been widely used in some form or other. Healthy living is desirable by all. A variety of...
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Ageing in Place: Older People Identify Barriers to Remaining in Low-Density Areas
Studies involving older people as co-investigators are limited in Portugal. The main objectives of this article are: (I) Analyze the barriers...
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Quality of Life in Ageing: Challenges Still Pending
The concept of an ageing society includes the quantitative notion that there will be more and more older adults as a preponderant age group. But...
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Gap Junctions and Ageing
Gap junctions, comprising connexin proteins, create conduits directly coupling the cytoplasms of adjacent cells. Expressed in essentially all...
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Bone Cells Metabolic Changes Induced by Ageing
Bone is a living organ that exhibits active metabolic processes, presenting constant bone formation and resorption. The bone cells that maintain...
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Hearing and Ageing
Age-related hearing loss (ARHL), or presbycusis, occurs in most mammals, humans included, with a different age of onset and magnitude of loss. It is...
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Extracellular Vesicles and Cellular Ageing
Ageing is a complex process characterized by deteriorated performance at multiple levels, starting from cellular dysfunction to organ degeneration....
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Ageing and the Autonomic Nervous System
The vertebrate nervous system is divided into central (CNS) and peripheral (PNS) components. In turn, the PNS is divided into the autonomic (ANS) and...
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Professional competences to promote healthy ageing across the lifespan: a sco** review
As societies age, the development of resources and strategies that foster healthy ageing from the beginning of life become increasingly important....
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Healthy Ageing and Regular Exercise
Ageing is an unprecedented international public health challenge. Studies show physically active older adults demonstrate individual benefits in...
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Is ageing becoming more active? Exploring cohort-wise changes in everyday time use among the older population in Sweden
The time older people spend on various daily activities is critical for their health and well-being. New generations of older adults are increasingly...
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Perspectives of Rural Older Women on the Determinants of Successful Ageing in Southeast Nigeria
As the global population of older persons continues to increase, the need for improved quality of life and increased life satisfaction has made...
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The Economic Impact of Ageing on Healthcare
The economic value of longevity and the rise in the ageing population are directly related, and is approximately estimated to incur 9.1 trillion...
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Demographic ageing, health status and life quality of the elderly in Russia
Within the context of the national policy on the elderly, the paper presents trends in demographic ageing, health and life quality of the elderly in...
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Variabilities in Ageing Trends: Questions and Concluding Remarks
The concept behind ageing gracefully and increasing longevity are perhaps the two essential components behind redefining well-being and setting up...
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Outdoor Thermal Comfort for Active Ageing in Urban Open Spaces: Reviewing the Concepts and Parameters
Outdoor thermal comfort (OTC) has considerable impacts on the health and life of different groups of people. Older people are one of the most...
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The measurement of structural ageing – an axiomatic approach
The structural ageing of the population is one of the key global trends of the 21st Century. In this paper, we outline four axioms that, along with...
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Active Ageing and Quality of Life
Measuring quality of life (QoL) in older adults is of vital importance for achieving a better understanding of factors that influence it and...