GLOBAL HEALTH AGING

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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