Sentences with phrase «decline in old age»

To top it all off, blueberries are high in antioxidants, which can reduce your dog's chances of cancer and cognitive decline in old age.

Yet, scientists are beginning to discover that this type of physical decline in old age may not be as inevitable as we once thought.

First, the good news: Moderate drinking may stave off mental decline in old age.

[Bryan James et al., «Life Space and Risk of Alzheimer Disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Cognitive Decline in Old Age»]

«Actively treating bodily inflammation in middle age and beyond may lessen the effects of these conditions on the brain's decline in old age.»

The results suggest that practicing yoga in the long - term can change the structure of your brain and could protect against cognitive decline in old age.

The results suggest that yoga could be a way to protect against cognitive decline in old age.

Having recently qualified for Medicare, I found his descriptions of progressive decline in old age particularly painful.

Dr. Harvey, a researcher in this study, explains: «Muscle strength peaks in young adulthood before declining in older age and low grip strength in adulthood has been associated with poor health outcomes including diabetes, falls and fractures.

By identifying why skin immunity declines in old age, a UCL - led research team has found that an anti-inflammatory pill could help make vaccines more effective for elderly people.

The findings are in line with other studies that suggest that cognitively stimulating activities can indeed increase cognitive reserve and delay cognitive decline in older age» says Anja Leist who is supported by a postdoctoral research fellowship of the National Research Fund Luxembourg.

«Tooth loss could be used as an early marker of mental and physical decline in older age, particularly among 60 - 74 year - olds,» says lead author Dr Georgios Tsakos (UCL Epidemiology & Public Health).

Not exact matches

Since the mid-1990s, there has been a modest decline in the incomes of the older population compared to the prime age population.

Within program expenses, major transfers to persons were up $ 1.1 billion, primarily due to higher old age security payments, reflecting an increase in the number of recipients and higher inflation, as benefits are indexed to quarterly changes in the consumer price index, major transfers to other levels of government were up $ 0.6 billion, reflecting legislative increases; while direct program expenses declined by $ 0.2 billion, as lower «other transfer» payments more than offset increases in departmental / agency operating costs.

The agency said most of the decline in full - time work was concentrated among young Canadians aged 15 to 24 years old.

Most seniors would agree that 80 is when true old age, with its inexorable decline and loss, sets in.

Whether death comes upon us in youth or old age, suddenly or after prolonged illness or decline, one whom God called by name is gone.

There has been a decline in religious affiliation among all age groups but those with no religion among the oldest people remain in the minority.

Is the membership decline in our older churches caused by the alienation of the younger aged members?

Also the ratio of working - age people to older people is likely to decline substantially in all countries, even those that currently have young populations.

Its been obvious to most that this squad of players has not been right since the end of that 1st great season under Bilic orchestrated on the pitch by Payet.This was followed by a disastrous Summer window when we bought bulk instead of quality, top that off with the Payet wanting to leave fiasco and we have never been the same since.Odd good displays which flattered to deceive but in general a gradual and consistent decline to the bottom.Moyes has inherited this group and i can honestly not see how it will change until January in the transfer market.He will not get a bumper warchest to improve thats for sure and who would want to buy some of these under achievers to create money for new buys.Its a mess and has been since that awful Summer transfer window plus on top of which far too many of this lot have under achieved drastically be it new players we have bought or the OLD boys.Its an ageing side especially at the back and needs a serious overhaul.

Studies have found that antioxidants in fruits and vegetables can help prevent declines in brain function due to aging, and leafy green and cruciferous vegetables (including broccoli, cauliflower, romaine lettuce, and spinach) are particularly helpful for older women's memories.

Shedd Aquarium is saddened to announce the passing of one of its most iconic and beloved animal residents and longest - lived of any fish in a zoological setting in the world — Granddad, a male Australia lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri) who was humanely euthanized Sunday due to a rapid decline in quality of life associated with old age.

Although all new fathers, regardless of their youngest child's age, experienced a significant reduction in AM and / or PM T compared with nonfathers (Fig. 2 and Tables S5 and S6), fathers with newborns (1 mo old or less) at the time of follow - up hormone assessment showed significantly greater declines in AM (P = 0.023) and PM (P = 0.003) T compared with fathers whose youngest child was older than 1 y of age, which was not accounted for by reports of psychosocial stress, sleep quality, or involvement in caregiving (Tables S7 and S8).

While breastfeeding rates are no longer declining at the global level, with many countries experiencing significant increases in the last decade, only 39 per cent of children less than six months of age in the developing world are exclusively breastfed and just 58 per cent of 20 - 23 month olds benefit from the practice of continued breastfeeding.

In 2014, highly publicized work in the laboratories of Villeda and Tony Wyss - Coray, PhD, professor of neurology at Stanford, showed that connecting the circulatory system of a young mouse to that of an old mouse could reverse the declines in learning ability that typically emerge as mice agIn 2014, highly publicized work in the laboratories of Villeda and Tony Wyss - Coray, PhD, professor of neurology at Stanford, showed that connecting the circulatory system of a young mouse to that of an old mouse could reverse the declines in learning ability that typically emerge as mice agin the laboratories of Villeda and Tony Wyss - Coray, PhD, professor of neurology at Stanford, showed that connecting the circulatory system of a young mouse to that of an old mouse could reverse the declines in learning ability that typically emerge as mice agin learning ability that typically emerge as mice age.

These mice performed better than their normal counterparts on learning tests well into old age, and their brains did not exhibit the decline in neurogenesis typically seen in aged mice.

Boldrini surmised that reduced cognitive - emotional resilience in old age may be caused by this smaller pool of neural stem cells, the decline in vascularization, and reduced cell - to - cell connectivity within the hippocampus.

To find out more about what underlies the cognitive decline that occurs with ageing, André Fischer of the European Neuroscience Institute in Göttingen, Germany, and colleagues analysed DNA from the brains of both young and old mice that had been set tasks involving learning and memory.

At Gerall's suggestion, Sonntag made his first foray into research on aging: He gave testosterone to 3 - day - old female rats and discovered that it speeds up the normal, age - related decline in their fertility and interest in mating.

This phenomenon has been coined HAROLD (hemispheric asymmetry reduction in older adults) and reflects the reorganisation of the brain as compensation for reduced brain capacity and efficiency due to age - related structural and physiological decline.

The incidence of whooping cough in the 2010 outbreak sharply declined following this peak and remained low at older ages.

In fact, while cognitive processes do decline with age, simply reminding older adults about ageist ideas actually exacerbates their memory problems, reveals important new research from the USC Davis School of Gerontology.

Multiple studies in older adults indicate that on - screen exercises can slow age - related cognitive decline, but improving the cognition of other groups is another question.

The absolute numbers of older Americans with dementia are sure to grow as the population ages in the coming decades, but new data suggest that the overall proportion with the condition is mysteriously declining.

The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between an age - related decline in androgens, or male hormones, and increasing physical disability in older men.

About one in two women and one in four men age 50 and older will break a bone due to their declining bone health.

In their analysis, the investigators took into account known risk factors for physical decline, such as older age, smoking and obesity.

Surprisingly, if TOR's activity is acutely inhibited by treatment with the therapeutic agent Rapamycin, sleep quality improves even in old flies, suggesting that age - related sleep decline is not only preventable, but also reversible.

«Increasingly, researchers are asking whether there is an age - related decline in autophagy and if it's connected to diseases that occur more frequently in older individuals,» says Malene Hansen, Ph.D., professor in the Development, Aging and Regeneration Program at SBP.

While prevalence declined, because of the growth in population older than 15 years of age, there has been a continuous increase in the number of men and women who smoke daily, increasing from 721 million in 1980 to 967 million in 2012, with a 41 percent increase in the number of male daily smokers and a 7 percent increase for female smokers.

This cellular switch may no longer work as well in the elderly, which Bading believes may explain the decline in memory typically observed in old age.

Higher fit older adults also had greater activation than young adults in some brain regions, suggesting that fitness may also serve a compensatory role in age - related memory and brain decline.

Older adults experienced the greatest decreases in biological age, and men experienced greater declines in biological age than females; these differences were partially explained by changes in smoking, obesity, and medication use, Crimmins and Levine explained.

Kipnis proposes that with fewer T cells, older people can not effectively suppress the inflammation around their brains — which could play a part in the cognitive decline that people experience as they age.

But performance on these trials declined as the participants went up in age — the older the participant was, the less able he or she was to report correctly what the unfamiliar voice was saying.

Now they have demonstrated in vivo for the first time that one dose of this gene injected into the central nervous system prevents the cognitive decline associated with aging in old animals which were treated at a younger age.

Some species also live to extraordinary old ages and — even more remarkably — do so with no signs of poor health, such as a decline in regenerative capacity or an increase in age - related mortality.

«This study is tremendously important given the aging of the population and our need to identify novel and effective interventions to reduce age - related cognitive and functional declines in older adults.»

For the first time, the scientists could quantitate two major trajectories of lung function leading to COPD: the fast decline trajectory, where lung function declines very rapidly from a normal level, and the alternative trajectory where suboptimal development of lung function during childhood and adolescence is the major determinant of COPD in older age.