Older people exhibit increased morbidity and mortality after viral infections than younger people. Additionally, vaccines are less protective in older people than in younger people. As the immune system is critical for host defense to viral infections and for vaccine efficacy, the implications are that aging negatively affects immunity. The immune system is broadly categorized into adaptive and...

321 we, today, call Geriatric Medicine but with wider knowledge and experience to deal with general patients of all ages. Many of my General Practitioner colleagues tell me that they are waiting for some of their patients to get older so I can see them. As the late R. E. Irvine (the founder of orthogeriatrics) used to put it, ‘What is good for older people is good for younger people but what is...

IMPORTANCE Despite concerns about rising treatment of young people with antipsychotic medications, little is known about trends and patterns of their use in the United States. OBJECTIVE To describe antipsychotic prescription patterns among young people in the United States, focusing on age and sex. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS A retrospective descriptive analysis of antipsychotic presc...

BACKGROUND The aim of the present study was to compare the experience elderly and younger patients in terms of emotional status, disease perception, methods of coping with the end-stage renal disease (ESRD) stress, and health-related quality of life in 2 different settings of renal replacement therapy: hemodialysis (HD) and continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis programs (CAPD). Specifically...

Purpose: As many older people fall during dual tasks, we aimed to examine the effect of different cognitive loads on learning gait stability in younger and older adults. Methods: 10 younger (Mean±SD age: 25.91±3.42 years) and 10 older adults (Mean±SD: 66.65±4.28 years) were healthy volunteers without a history of falls. They were asked to do three tasks on a treadmill with cognitive load (none...

3 experiments examined serial pattern learning in younger and older adults. Unlike the usual repeating pattern, the sequences alternated between events from a repeating pattern and those determined randomly. The results indicated that no one was able to describe the regularity, but with practice every individual in all 3 age groups (including old old) became faster, more accurate, or both, on p...

A meta-analysis of 58 studies involving 30,270 participants examined how study population and methodological characteristics influence the associations among norms, control perceptions, attitudes, intentions and behaviour in the area of condom use. Findings indicated that control perceptions generally correlated more strongly among members of societal groups that lack power, including female, y...