GLOBAL HEALTH AGING

From climate change to refugee health, Global Health Aging covered different topics in March. Ageism is a huge problem for many societies and our goal is to join with other advocates in creating a culture where everyone is respected. We hope that these articles especially the one about Hip Hop-eration, a street-dance group comprising seven older adults, are changing the conversation around aging. Let’s take a look at what happened in March 2016.

From the Writers

• The Health Plight of Older Refugees in Australia
• How Climate Change Affects the Health of Older Adults
• The Dangers of Type 2 Diabetes among Older Hispanics
• The Flu in Focus: Epidemiology, History and Research of Global Influenza
• Exercise, Hip Hop-eration and the Impact of Dance on New Zealand’s Elderly

In the News

• An Aging World: 2015 – United States Census Bureau
  
• Nigeria’s population: Elderly to constitute 20% in 2016 – The Eagle Online
• New Parkinson’s drug could reduce hallucinations, but at what cost? – STAT
• The red-hot debate about transmissible Alzheimer’s – Nature Publishing Group
• Citizens urged to take look out for elderly members of the community – MaltaToday
• New auto safety features offer benefits and challenges for older drivers – Next Avenue
• How China’s rural elderly are being left behind and taking their lives – The Globe and Mail

March Peer Reviews

• Recovery of slow-5 oscillations in a longitudinal study of ischemic stroke patients – NeuroImage: Clinical
• Elevated p16ink4a Expression in Human Labial Salivary Glands as a Potential Correlate of Cognitive Aging in Late Midlife – PLoS One
• Iron Level and Myelin Content in the Ventral Striatum Predict Memory Performance in the Aging Brain – The Journal of Neuroscience
• Hippocampal Pathway Plasticity Is Associated with the Ability to Form Novel Memories in Older Adults – Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
• Cortical Thinning in Healthy Aging Correlates with Larger Motor-Evoked EEG Desynchronization – Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
• Effect of a quality-controlled fermented nutraceutical on skin aging markers: An antioxidant-control, double-blind study – Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine
• Cross-sectional relations of race and poverty status to cardiovascular risk factors in the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Lifespan (HANDLS) study – BMC Public Health

Featured Company

Ageing + Communication + Technologies (ACT) is a multi-methodological research project that brings together researchers and institutional and community partners to address the transformation of the experiences of ageing with the proliferation of new forms of mediated communications in networked societies. ACT is comprised of researchers, students, and community and institutional partners from around the world. Together, they investigate how ‘digital ageism’ – the individual and systemic biases that create forms of inclusion and exclusion that are age-related – operates in subtle ways. For more information, please visit ACT and check out this workshop on Scratch, a game used to teach programming to people of all ages. ACT hosted the workshop in February 2016.

Events

• April 17-19 | Copenhagen, DNK: IFA Copenhagen Summit 2016
• Apr 21-24 | Budapest, HUN: 31st International Conference of Alzheimer‘s Disease International
• Apr 25-28 |Saint-Petersburg, RUS: Biomedical Innovation for Healthy Longevity
• Apr 29 | Coogee, AUS: Australian Biology of Aging Conference 2016
• May 9-12 | Denver, USA: Argentum Senior Living Executive Conference

Just for Fun

• Downward Facing Dork: Taking Up Yoga at 60 – Next Avenue
• Hip-Hop Crew Proves You’re Never Too Old to Bust a Move – Next Avenue
• He Wasn’t an Artist, But Then Something Remarkable Happened – Next Avenue
• And a quote to keep you inspired till next month!

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