Showing Results for
- Academic Journals (4,842)
Search Results
- 4,842
Academic Journals
- 4,842
- 1From:OECD Economic Surveys - NetherlandsThe Netherlands' population is rapidly ageing, as is occurring in other OECD countries. The number of persons aged 65 and over relative to the working age population is set to double between 2010 and 2030. This will...
- 2From:OECD Economic Surveys - Japan (Vol. 2006)With gross debt exceeding 170% of GDP, measures to reduce Japan's large government budget deficit have become increasingly urgent. The government's Reform and Perspectives should be improved to sustain confidence in the...
- 3From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 60, Issue 15)Byline: Paul Basken The legend of a fountain of youth has endured for millennia, propelled more by wishfulness than by hard scientific results. That hasn't changed. It's true that new drug candidates like...
- 4From:Lab Animal (Vol. 43, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAging can be broadly defined as a gradual decline in function over time; it is one of the most conserved features of living organisms. Mitochondrial dysfunction is a hallmark of aging, but the mechanisms contributing to...
- 5From:Biochemistry (Moscow) (Vol. 78, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedI will first discuss how all aging models that assume that the aged cell has irreversibly lost its youthful capabilities through such mechanisms as accumulated dysfunction, accumulated damage, and/or accumulation of...
- 6From:Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand (Vol. 20, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedAN IRISH study has highlighted the "serious, complex and unique" health and social challenges facing that country's 30,000-strong intellectual disability (ID) population. The study, the only one in the world with the...
- 7From:Journal of Anesthesia (Vol. 28, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCerebral dysfunction after cardiac surgery remains a devastating complication and is growing in importance with our aging populations. Neurological complications following cardiac surgery can be classified broadly as...
- 8From:Healthy Aging & Clinical Care in the ElderlyPeer-ReviewedThe purpose of this review was to describe the health consequences of obesity in older adults. Although obesity is associated with risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidemia in the...
- 9From:Leadership Journal (Vol. 35, Issue 1)The twilight years of life can be some of the most difficult--and rewarding--of life or ministry. But what if we were in the twilight years of aging itself? Google has announced the launch...
- 10From:BMC Medicine (Vol. 7) Peer-ReviewedAuthors: William Hamilton (corresponding author) [1]; Robert Lancashire [2]; Debbie Sharp [1]; Tim J Peters [1]; KK Cheng [2]; Tom Marshall [2] Background Over 35,000 colorectal cancers were diagnosed in England...
- 11From:The Southern Review (Vol. 47, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe puppy softly whined in dream --as if she heard that subtle clicking mixed with a hum, which seemed to come from some electric device--then she quieted. Inertia of summer's night had settled on him as well, soft as...
- 12From:Nature Clinical Practice Endocrinology & Metabolism (Vol. 4, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedOriginal article Emmelot-Vonk MH et al. (2008) Effect of testosterone supplementation on functional mobility, cognition, and other parameters in older men: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA 299: 39-52 SYNOPSIS...
- 13From:Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (Vol. 36, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedHealth care depends on people. It is the health workforce--doctors, nurses, pharmacists, lab technicians, and nursing assistants, to mention a few--that, in large measure, determine the quality and effectiveness of any...
- 14From:Obesity, Fitness & Wellness WeekA report, 'Dietary and genetic evidence for phosphate toxicity accelerating mammalian aging,' is newly published data in The Faseb Journal. "Identifying factors that accelerate the aging process can provide important...
- 15From:Aging Health (Vol. 3, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe latest US government report on aging health identifies increasing physical activity and reducing obesity as key areas for America's aging population. A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and...
- 16From:Nature Genetics (Vol. 39, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Konstantin Khrapko [1]; Jan Vijg [2] One of the oldest theories of why and how we age is based on the natural instability of the DNA of our genome [1]. This theory (in particular, the variant that refers...
- 17From:Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health (Vol. 57, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedObjectives: To measure the geographical variation in prevalence of cardiovascular disease, risk factors, and their control in a nationally representative sample of older British women. Methods: Baseline survey using...
- 18From:European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (Vol. 54, Issue S3) Peer-ReviewedAge-related changes in body composition can be considered the consequence of changes in energy and protein metabolism, while also having a leverage effect on protein and energy requirements. Changes in organ and systems...
- 19From:Journal of the American Dietetic Association (Vol. 100, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Scientific evidence increasingly supports that good nutrition is essential to the health, self-sufficiency, and quality of life of older adults. With the population of the United States living longer than...
- 20From:Indiana Business Review (Vol. 78, Issue 2)The baby boom. A tired phrase? Perhaps. Coined to describe the post-World War II generation, it engenders many images, The pig in the python is one of my favorites, conveying the remarkable visibility of that...