GLOBAL HEALTH AGING

This was a big month for Global Health Aging. We covered a variety of topics including diabetes, sexual health and smoking. A number of countries especially India and Ukraine were featured and for the first time on the blog, we discussed the impact of war on the elderly and health systems. Let’s take a look at what happened this past month at Global Health Aging.

On the Blog

• India is Diabetes Capital of the World – Namratha Rao
• Sexual Health and Intimacy in Later Life – Sophie Okolo
• The Risk of Smoking is Not Just for the Young – Diana Kingsbury
• Ukraine: How War Affects the Elderly and Health Systems – Martina Lesperance

In the News

• New Convention Will Help Protect Latin America’s Elderly – Truthout
• For seniors, sexual activity is linked to higher quality of life – Reuters Health
• Changes to home care for seniors examined at forum – ABC Central Victoria
• Making Decisions on Elder Housing May Take a Team Effort – The New York Times
• India Will Be Most Populous Country Sooner Than Thought, U.N. Says – The New York Times
• Can An iPad Heal Loneliness? Barcelona Wants Its Senior Citizens To Give It A Try – Fast Company
• ‘New Frontier for Successful Aging: Financial Gerontology in the Spotlight at White House Conference on Aging’ – The Huffington Post

July Peer Reviews

• Physician involvement in life transition planning: a survey of community-dwelling older adults. – BMC Family Practice
• Health care utilization in older people with cardiovascular disease in China – Frontiers in Physiology
• Television viewing time and risk of incident obesity and central obesity: the English longitudinal study of ageing – BMC Obesity
• Neural Correlates of Associative Memory in the Elderly: A Resting-State Functional MRI Study – BioMed Research International
• The Prevalence and Incidence of Glaucoma in Denmark in a Fifteen Year Period: A Nationwide Study. – PLoS One
• Mobility predicts change in older adults’ health-related quality of life: evidence from a Vancouver falls prevention prospective cohort study – Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Featured Company

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Events

• Aug 21-31 | Rome, ITA : Eastern Mediterranean Cruise Conference: Palliative Medicine and End of Life Care: 2015 Update Including Related Topics in Neurology
• Aug 22-23 | London, UK: Aging2.0 / Google Intergenerational Hackathon
• Aug 31-Sept 2 | Toronto, ON: 3rd International Conference on Alzheimer‘s Disease and Dementia
• Aug 31-Sept 4 | Perth, AUS: IAHSA/ACSA Joint International Global Ageing Conference
• Oct 4-7 | Santa Clara, CA: Health 2.0 Conference 
• Oct 15-16 | Scottsdale, AZ: National Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia in Native American Communities: Impact, Issues and Next Steps

Just for Fun

• Aging athletes enter Senior Olympics – Grand Forks Herald
• Veteran Icons: Aging Artists Still Making an Impact– Crave Online
• The Art of Aging: Jim Denomie’s vivid, edgy paintings attract international attention – Star Tribune
• And a quote to keep you inspired till next month!

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