Gerontology & Geriatrics

A new National Center for Healthy Aging-led review, in partnership with Monash University, has explored key issues facing the more than 500,000 older care leavers who are transitioning into the aged care support system, underscoring the importance of incorporating the voices and diverse experiences of care leavers into research to inform policy and practice.

An exercise intervention aimed at elderly women was successful at reducing falls, especially among those with polypharmacy, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital shows. The results were published in Scientific Reports.

A vaccination program has cut hospital admissions for a respiratory virus among older people in Scotland by nearly two-thirds.

A study by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Hā Kūpuna—National Resource Center for Native Hawaiian Elders sheds light on the end-of-life care preferences of Native Hawaiian kūpuna (elders). Led by Assistant Professor Miquela Ibrao, UH researchers and ALU LIKE, Inc., the study identifies culturally tailored strategies to honor kūpuna values.

A collaborative study between researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), and the Institute for Biostatistics and Informatics in Medicine and Aging Research, Rostock University Medical Center, Germany, has investigated how advanced AI tools like large language models (LLMs) can make it easier to evaluate interventions for aging and provide personalized recommendations.

Many people wish not only to live as long as possible, but above all to do so without any health restrictions. However, with increasing age, the risk of age-related diseases such as Alzheimer’s or sarcopenia (loss of muscle mass and muscle strength with age) also increases.