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Women are now spending fewer years with cognitive impairment but more years with disability compared to 20 years ago. We're living longer but senior years are still marked by declines in physical well-being even as mental acumen remains better than in decades past.
A new study suggests that following a healthy lifestyle is linked to slower memory decline in older adults, even in people with the apolipoprotein E4 (APOE4) gene—one of the strongest known risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
Holly Bennett and colleagues investigate trends in life expectancy and disability-free life expectancy between 1991 and 2011 for adults age 65 years or older with long term health conditions using data from two population-based studies in England.
Human Longevity is Associated with Brain White Matter Hyperintensities Researchers from UNSW Sydney’s Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) have
DUBLIN, Aug 28 — In the fictional links he drew between immortal vampires and bats, Dracula creator Bram Stoker may have had one thing right. “Maybe it’s all in the blood,” says Emma Teeling, a geneticist studying the exceptional longevity of bats in the hope of discovering benefits for...