Credit: Albina Ibrayeva/Bonaguidi Lab
In a new study published in
Cell Stem Cell, a team led by USC Stem Cell scientist Michael Bonaguidi, PhD, demonstrates that neural stem cells - the stem cells of the nervous system - age rapidly. There is chronological aging, and there is biological aging, and they are not the same thing, said Bonaguidi, an Assistant Professor of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Gerontology and Biomedical Engineering at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. We re interested in the biological aging of neural stem cells, which are particularly vulnerable to the ravages of time. This has implications for the normal cognitive decline that most of us experience as we grow older, as well as for dementia, Alzheimer s disease, epilepsy and brain injury.
Meaningful engagement can improve quality of life for assisted living residents with dementia
Assisted living communities can improve the quality of life for residents with dementia by approaching them as individuals and attempting to include all residents in activities, according to a study led by a Georgia State University gerontology researcher.
The typical activity programming at many assisted living residences can leave people with dementia on the sidelines, according to the study, Meaningful Engagement Among Assisted Living Residents With Dementia: Successful Approaches, published in the
Journal of Applied Gerontology.
The study found that the keys to improving quality of life for residents with dementia are getting to know them as individuals, meeting people where they are, being in the moment with people and viewing all interactions with residents as opportunities to connect.
BGSU students bridge the pandemic divide
Communication-gerontology collaboration creates community engagement project with long-term care facility in Columbus
By Bob Cunningham
While the pandemic was severely limiting our interactions with others and forcing many to function inside a protective and often lonely self-enforced bubble, a group of Bowling Green State University students explored a different avenue of communication and found a landscape of exciting new connections.
Dr. Sandra Faulkner from the School of Media and Communication collaborated with Dr. Wendy Watson in gerontology to create a community engagement project that linked students with residents of the Worthington Christian Village long-term care facility in Columbus.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio (March 17, 2021) As women age, they are more likely to wake up in the middle of the night to pass urine. The loss of estrogen during the menopause transition accelerates this problem, which is known as nocturia. A new study evaluated the effectiveness of different hormone therapies in managing the frequency of nocturia. Study results are published online today in
Menopause, the journal of The North American Menopause Society (NAMS).
The loss of estrogen during menopause has been shown to create bladder dysfunction, sleep disorders, hot flashes, and alterations in renal water and salt handling, all of which result in higher diuresis overnight. To date, there has been little research done regarding the effect of hormone therapy on nocturia, even though hormone therapy has been proven to improve the causative factors of postmenopausal nocturia such as sleep disorders, obstructive sleep apnea, and hot flashes.
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TORONTO, ON - American adults 65 years old and older have better vision than that age group did nearly a decade ago, according to a recent study published in the journal
Ophthalmic Epidemiology.
In 2008, 8.3% of those aged 65 and older in the US reported serious vision impairment. In 2017 that number decreased to 6.6% for the 65-plus cohort. Put another way: if vision impairment rates had remained at 2008 levels, an additional 848,000 older Americans would have suffered serious vision impairment in 2017. The implications of a reduction in vision impairment are significant, says the study s first author, University of Toronto pharmacy student, ZhiDi (Judy) Deng.