Monthly News Roundup – February 2016

Global Health Aging settled into the new year after a long Christmas break! Please visit the website and social media channels since 2016 is starting out to be a great year. Last month, we published three important articles on different topics including homelessness and more. The article about music and memory is now one of the top ten most popular pages on the website! Let’s take a look at what happened in January 2016.

From the Writers

In the News

Take Charge Now, Elderly Council Told – Fiji Sun
On death and dying – when the time comes – Daily Maverick
Shaping robotics into companions for the elderly – Business Day
The Right Road For A Better Future Of Aging – The Huffington Post
Tanzania: HeLpAGe Calls for Protection of Elderly Women – AllAfrica
How Uganda Came To Earn High Marks For Quality Of Death – KSMU
Nursing homes don’t have to be grim, depressing places – Toronto Star

January Peer Reviews

Effects of Use and Disuse on Non-paralyzed and Paralyzed Skeletal Muscles – Aging and Disease
Age Differences in Prefrontal Surface Area and Thickness in Middle Aged to Older Adults – Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
Melatonin and cortisol profiles in late midlife and their association with age-related changes in cognition – Nature and Science of Sleep
GIT2 Acts as a Systems-Level Coordinator of Neurometabolic Activity and Pathophysiological Aging – Frontiers in Endocrinology
High-gamma power changes after cognitive intervention: preliminary results from twenty-one senior adult subjects – Brain and Behavior
Abnormal Subcortical Brain Morphology in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis: A Cross-sectional Study – Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
Age-Related Changes in Dynamic Postural Control and Attentional Demands are Minimally Affected by Local Muscle Fatigue – Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Featured Company
The International Longevity Centre Global Alliance (ILC Global Alliance) is an international consortium of member organizations. ILC Global Alliance helps societies to address longevity and population ageing in positive and productive ways. The consortium currently includes centres in the United States of America, Japan, the United Kingdom, France, the Dominican Republic, India, South Africa, Argentina, The Netherlands, Israel, Singapore, Czech Republic, Brazil, China, Germany, Australia and Canada. These centres work both autonomously and collaboratively to study how greater life expectancy and increased proportions of older people impact on nations around the world. For more information, please visit ILC Global Alliance and check out this video by ILC Brazil.

Events

Mar 14-15 | Barcelona, ESP: International Research Conference on Science, Health and Medicine 2015
Mar 20-24 | Washington D.C., USA: 2016 Aging in America Conference
Mar 24-25 | London, GBR: 5th International Conference on Biological, Chemical and Environmental Sciences
Apr 3-5 | Cologne, DEU: Second Cologne Ageing Conference
Oct 20-21 | Washington D.C., USA: Sixth International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society

Just for Fun

Go gardening to keep dementia at bay – The Straits Times
Elderly busker entertains London’s Carnaby Street with hilarious rap performance – Daily Mail
The young and the elderly get together to make ‘100 interventions in 1 day’ – Hong Kong Free Press
And a quote to keep you inspired till next month!

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