Elder maltreatment and abuse of the elderly is found in almost all countries of the world. According to the World Health Organization, elderly abuse is expected to continue to increase, particularly as many countries experience rapidly aging populations. Throughout the world, both elderly men and women are at high risk of abuse, neglect, and exploitation. Although older men are at risk of abuse in about the same proportion as women, elderly women are at higher risk of abuse, neglect, and exploitation in cultures where women are devalued. (more…)
Elderly abuse or elderly neglect can be put within the general category of violence that may be designed for different populati ...
The population of man aged over 65 will exceed the number of children under 5 years old in 2040, for the first time in history, ...
The economic status of older adults in the United States today is greatly improved, and there is much diversity of circumstance ...
Not only that the low birth rate leads directly to the aging population, a purely arithmetic on the number of young people, and ...
Spanning twenty-seven independent countries, the populations represent all possible situations in which people aging. The speed ...
Not all body fat is equally bad for your health. It is widely known that body fat distribution is extremely important. There is increasing evidence for the deleterious effects of Visceral Fat on aging. Waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) is an epidemiological tool that demonstrates a correlation between Visceral Fat and development of diabetes mellitus, stroke, coronary artery disease, and mortality. This ratio is easily determined by dividing the measurement of waist circumference by hip circumference. (more…)
Adipose tissue fat is not simply a reservoir for excess nutrients, but rather an active and dynamic organ capable of expressing ...
Some medications exist for weight loss. These medications are moderately effective, although they often have side effects that ...
Animal studies support a cancer-promoting role for fat, and in humans, epidemiological data strongly suggest that dietary fat i ...
Obesity results from an imbalance between caloric consumption and caloric expenditure over a prolonged period. Weight gain occurs w ...
Concomitant with the global increase in obesity is the increase in the metabolic syndrome. The metabolic syndrome, also known ...
Rheumatoid Arthritis affects approximately 1% of the world’s population. Rheumatoid Arthritis
is a chronic, multisystem, autoimmune, and inflammatory disorder that involves peripheral joints in a symmetric distribution. The potential of the synovial inflammation to cause cartilage damage and bone erosions and subsequent changes in joint integrity is the feature of the disease. (more…)
Fibromyalgia and myofascial pain (MP) are among the most common musculoskeletal disorders from which older adults suffer. These dis ...
Chronic diseases are not generally prevented by vaccines or cured by medication, nor do they just disappear. To a large degree, ...
Mounting evidence points to fibromyalgia as a heritable disorder. This evidence includes familial aggregation of fibromyalgia as we ...
Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) is the core daily personal care activities that are necessary in order for people to be able to l ...
Involuntary weight loss is the result of many chronic progressive diseases, often leading to diminished lean body mass, frailty, su ...
Some researches on relation between exercise and body human health results indicate that in addition to increasing muscle capacity, physical activity can help improve strength, balance, joint mobility, flexibility, agility, the speed with which one walks and physical coordination as a whole. In addition, physical activity has effects favorably on metabolism, blood pressure regulation, and prevention of an excessive increase in weight. (more…)
Prevention is the best cure for back pain. If I had practice proper lifting techniques and /or the box I lifted had been proper ...
As a normal ageing process, as you grow older, you will lose muscle fiber. The composition between fats and muscles in your bod ...
Osteoporosis is disease affecting the bones, making them fragile and prone to fracture. Osteoporosis is defined as a systemic s ...
With heart disease risk being the number one cause of death among older Americans, you should pay particular attention to known ...
Aerobic exercise is one form of exercise with low to moderate intensity which is done for a longer or a moderate duration. With ...
As you probably know, sex hormone in women is declining with age. Men also experiencing the same, even though the declining rate is not as steep drop like women menopause. But the effect is substantial in well being and fertility. Until recent years, there has been a lot concern about the subject of testosterone levels in men. Andropause as the name suggest, is declining 1% per year of testosterone levels hormone for men age over 30 years. This significantly put those men group in risk of having disease-syndromes related to andropause. (more…)
The accurate diagnosis of endocrine dysfunction in the elderly requires a high index of suspicion. Signs and symptoms of hormone de ...
Potential benefits of T treatment in older men must be weighed against risks of adverse effects. In young hypogonadal men, physiolo ...
The prevalence of sexual dysfunction in women approaches 43%, and age is an important correlate. The underlying etiology of sexual ...
Involuntary weight loss is the result of many chronic progressive diseases, often leading to diminished lean body mass, frailty, su ...
The systemic benefits of exogenous Growth Hormone therapy in the healthy elderly remain unclear and controversial. Studies have ...
Chronic diseases are not generally prevented by vaccines or cured by medication, nor do they just disappear. To a large degree, the major chronic disease killers—heart disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes—are an extension of what people do, or not do, as they go about their daily lives. (more…)
Lifestyle and behavioral factors are responsible for a multiple chronic aging diseases and associated to morbidity and mortalit ...
Rheumatoid Arthritis affects approximately 1% of the world’s population. Rheumatoid Arthritis is a chronic, multisystem, autoimmun ...
As a normal ageing process, as you grow older, you will lose muscle fiber. The composition between fats and muscles in your bod ...
Cancer occurrence rates in a period of time for a given population is expressed in various ways. The incidence rate is a direct mea ...
Animal studies support a cancer-promoting role for fat, and in humans, epidemiological data strongly suggest that dietary fat i ...
Visual impairment among elderly is now a major health care problem. We are living in aging population with 80% of blind people or people who have visual impairment are older than 50 years. The most common causes of blindness for this groups are age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, cataract and diabetic retinopathy. These are four most common causes of blindness which doctors and researches are keen to cure. (more…)
Researches with Age Related Eye Disease Study have found that giving supplement of antioxidant and zinc has shown good result i ...
It is truly an astounding promised by products that claimed can help slowing aging. There were plenty of such products and yo ...
In many instances, the symptoms listed below are the result of relatively minor disorders as elderly. However, they can also re ...
There are many options of foods and supplements that we can choose to slow the aging process. Not only it helps maintain our youthf ...