Physical Resilience: Not Simply the Opposite of Frailty

Buckling Analysis of Thin Functionally Graded Rectangular Plates with two Opposite Edges Simply Supported

In this article, an exact analytical solution for thermal buckling analysis of thin functionallygraded (FG) rectangular plates is presented. Based on the classical plate theory and using the principle ofminimum total potential energy, the stability equations are obtained. Since the material properties in FGmaterials are functions of the coordinates (specially the thickness), the stability equat...

Children—Not Simply “Little Adults”

Fitness and frailty: opposite ends of a challenging continuum! Will the end of age discrimination make frailty assessments an imperative?

In Europe, those over 65 years of age will increase to 30% of the population over the next 30 years [1]. Those over 75 and especially 85 years of age concentrate the highest proportions of poor health and disability. At the same time, even at the oldest ages, the majority live in non-institutionalised settings [2]. Increasingly, the 'demographic time bomb' concept is being replaced by a more co...

Physical frailty and fitness of older driver

AIM to analyze the association between physical frailty and the results of fitness capacity exams for driving vehicles among elder Brazilians. METHODS this is a cross sectional study, performed in traffic medicine clinics of the city of Curitiba (Brazil). The data was collected through the physical frailty tests, the use of a structured questionnaire, and searches on the records of the Brazil...

Protecting brains, not simply stimulating minds.

Curricular enhancements in early childhood education that are guided by the science of learning must be augmented by protective interventions informed by the biology of adversity. The same neuroplasticity that leaves emotional regulation, behavioral adaptation, and executive functioning skills vulnerable to early disruption by stressful environments also enables their successful development thr...