A new drug that appears to improve learning and memory in animals and may reduce the accumulation of destructive plaque that is the hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease is under study at the Medical College of Georgia. MCG is enrolling Alzheimer’s patients with mild to moderate memory loss in a 12-week study that compares different doses of the drug –[Lire…]
ASIMO est un robot développé par Honda qui se déplace à la manière d’un humain. Il pourrait préfigurer des utilisations à destination des Seniors, par exemple ;: montrer et descendre les escaliers. Le vieillissement de la population du Japon pousse de plus en plus les entreprises à s’intéresser à et développer des produits pour répondre aux attentes des Seniors japonais.[Lire…]
A legal framework and support systems are prerequisites to resolving the problem of elderly people being abused by relatives, according to the findings of a Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry (Japan) survey. The survey conducted late last year through early this year revealed that sons were the most common offenders and that one out of two abusers did not realize[Lire…]
The 50-somethings are reshaping the labour market. Over the past decade, ageing baby boomers in the over-55 year age bracket have increased their share of the workforce from 8 per cent to 11.5 per cent, with their job growth in some years topping 10 per cent, an Age/Sydney Morning Herald study has found. The employment forecast has found that there[Lire…]
A compter de 2006, plus de 700 000 personnes âgées de 60 ans vont partir en retraite soir le double des départs constatés en 2001. ; Pour recueillir l’avis des PME sur la prise en compte du vieillissement de la population active dans leur politique d’emploi et de formation professionnel, AGEOFS PME a réalisé une enquête, en collaboration avec l’IFOP,[Lire…]
Professor Thomas Perls of Harvard Medical School is the founder of the New England Centenarian Study (NECS); this study reports on the heath of some of the United States’ oldest citizens. He has distilled the most interesting results in his book « Living to 100 ». Here are some further extracts. Robert Griffith, Editor. Introduction While we were studying centenarians’ cognitive function,[Lire…]
Europe’s pensions and healthcare systems could collapse and the region’s economic growth will falter unless governments, businesses and citizens take action to address the challenge of population ageing, according to Old Europe: Population ageing and the looming pensions crisis, a new report by the Economist Intelligence Unit. The report, which includes a barometer of demographic risk in 20 European countries,[Lire…]
Two thirds of over 50 year olds who use the internet are now managing their finances online, according to a new survey from NatWest OnLine Banking, placing silver surfers among the fastest growing internet banking users in Britain. What’s more, 64% of over 70 year old internet users are logging on once a week to check the balance on their[Lire…]
The census bureau estimates that by 2050 approximately 25 percent of Americans will be over the age of 65. Yet our culture has done little to eliminate the one accepted prejudice that could relegate a quarter of our population to second-class citizenship – Ageism. As our population continues to age, the need to halt ageism and ageist practices becomes more[Lire…]
Hip fracture rates are falling among older people but hospital admissions are rising despite the apparent success of prevention programs due to Australia’s aging population, says research in the Medical Journal of Australia. The study tracks a decade of hip fracture data among people aged 50 and over who were admitted to acute hospitals in NSW between July 1990[Lire…]
