May 22, 2024

Being kind can boost your overall health

Consistently demonstrating acts of kindness and compassion is beneficial for our health.
April 18, 2024

The effects of visits from furry friends on the elderly and the resulting benefits.

A review of evidence, unveils significant findings regarding the positive impact of animal interaction on care home residents.
April 16, 2024

Study reveals the true benefits of living in a community

A ground-breaking study of Retirement Communities shows massive health, wellbeing and security benefits for seniors.
August 30, 2021

Study reveals the true benefits of Retirement Communities

A ground-breaking study of Retirement Communities shows massive health, wellbeing and security benefits for seniors.
April 10, 2018

Brain’s ‘musical memory’ can escape the ravages of Alzheimer’s

It is a cold morning in a church hall in Croydon, south London, and Peter Edwards is warming up his singers with some call-and-response exercises. But […]
April 10, 2018
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Poor education and obesity are risk factors for dementia

At first sight the global growth in Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia looks terrifying. The World Health Organisation’s latest estimates, released in December, put […]
March 7, 2018
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International and national geriatric demographics

Launched in 2009, ANCIEN is a research project financed under the 7th EU Research Framework Programme. It ran for a 44-month period and involved 20 partners […]
May 29, 2017

Stress and aging

Because the immune system’s defence mechanisms become impaired as we grow older, our ability to resist infection progressively declines. So does our ability to respond effectively […]
May 2, 2017

A nation of whingers

The better life in the UK objectively gets, the more we seem to complain that things seem to beIt ought to be a cause of national […]
April 25, 2017
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Urgent action needed to prevent an African dementia crisis

South Africa and other African countries need to urgently address their approach to nutrition, exercise and mental health to minimise the looming risk of widespread dementia.  […]
February 22, 2017

South Africa’s Elderly Population to Double by 2050