Last month, Global Health Aging looked at issues relating to the ineffectiveness of the influenza vaccine in the elderly. We also interviewed a 32-year-old filmmaker who is working on a project that explores the impact of diet and lifestyle on brain health. From the WHO European Region to a new documentary called Bread Head, let’s take a look at what happened this past month at Global Health Aging.
On the Blog
- Max Lugavere, Bread Head and the Changing Face of Alzheimer’s – Sophie Okolo
- Europe: How to Tackle the Lack of Support and Accessibility of the Influenza Vaccine – Martina Lesperance
In the News
- Getting older in Poland: European healthcare challenges – EurActiv
- Latin America Must Address Its Caregiving Crisis – IPS News Agency
- Abuse against elderly on the rise, government does nothing – Times LIVE
- Flu cases double in South Australia as the elderly face an early spike – The ABC
- System uses vending machines to help find elderly dementia patients – The Japan News
- Millennials Have the Power To Prevent Their Own Cognitive Decline. Here’s How. – Yahoo Health
- Nutritious, delicious and easily digestible: Japan innovates to feed elderly population – Channel NewsAsia
May Peer Reviews
- Quantitative measures of healthy aging and biological age – Healthy Aging Research
- Learning of bimanual motor sequences in normal aging – Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
- “I am active”: effects of a program to promote active aging – Clinical Interventions in Aging
- Effects of age on a real-world What-Where-When memory task – Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
- Vascular Aging across the Menopause Transition in Healthy Women – Advances in Vascular Medicine
- Motives of Dutch persons aged 50 years and older to accept vaccination: a qualitative study – BMC Public Health
Featured Company
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Events
- Jun 15-17 | Chicago, USA: National Healthcare Innovation Summit
- Jun 18 | Birmingham, GBR: Older People with Multiple Morbidities
- Jul 13 | Washington, D.C., USA: 2015 White House Conference on Aging
- Sept 18 | Berkeley, USA: The Path to a Better Way of Death
- Oct 30-Nov 1 | Nashville, USA: LeadingAge Hackfest
- Nov 19-20 | San Francisco, USA: Aging2.0 AgeTech Expo
Just for Fun
- Japanese game hits back at the elderly’s time challenge – Financial Times
- Michael Caine on Elderly Roles and Why He Snubbed Cannes After ‘Alfie’ – The New York Times
- And a quote to keep you inspired till next month!
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