GLOBAL HEALTH AGING

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

• Laughter is the Way to Good Health
• Homelessness Among Older Women in Australia
• Music and Memory: How Radio Stations Impact the Health of Older Australians

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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