older adults

A daily dose of an oral drug that stimulates release of growth hormone helps retain muscle in healthy older adults, reversing part of the normal aging process, a new study shows.

(University of Southern California) Life can be stressful, whether you're an individual watching the stock market crash or a commuter stuck in traffic.

A new study, forthcoming in the journal Psychological Science, examines how stress affects decision-making and finds that older adults alter their behavior more than young adults when under stress -- particularly in situations involving risk.

Are your muscles shrinking? If you are forty years old or older, it is likely that they are. There are two reasons why older people end up in nursing homes.

Their brains stop working or their muscles stop working. We now know that resistance training is absolutely critical for older adults.

Weight lifting is not just for young people, everyone needs to do it.

(University of California - Los Angeles) Poor sleep among the elderly is common, but it may also be a precursor of the first signs of depression.

(American Psychological Association) Older adults may be better able to comply with medication regimens by working with providers to fill out simple paper tables that track what they take and when they take it.

Recent experiments found that use of a "medtable" may help to prevent medication-related problems. A report appears in the September issue of Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, published by the American Psychological Association.

(American Academy of Sleep Medicine) A study in the Aug. 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine shows that the sleep patterns of older adults who live with and provide direct care during the night for a person with dementia are significantly worse than other older adults.

(Oregon Research Institute) In the July issue of the American Journal of Public Health, Oregon Research Institutesenior scientist Fuzhong Li, Ph.D., describes how senior community centers in Oregon successfully adopted an evidence-based Tai Chi program to prevent falls among older adults.

Based on this success, the Oregon Department of Human Services has now adopted the Tai Chi program for wider dissemination.

Regularly eating non-fried fish may help older adults preserve their memory and ward off stroke.

(The Gerontological Society of America) Volunteering for environmental protection activities can be physically and mentally sustaining for older people, according to the latest issue of Public Policy & Aging Report.

In fact, this demographic group is in a unique position to have a noticeable impact on its surroundings.

(University of Georgia) Older adults can decrease their risk of disability and increase their likelihood of maintaining independence by 41 percent by participating in a walking exercise program, according to a new University of Georgia study.