This study was performed to assess serum testosterone alterations induced by paradoxical sleep deprivation (PSD) and to verify their attenuation during sleep recovery (SR) based on different durations and ages. Wistar male rats aged 12 weeks for the younger group and 20 weeks for the elder group were randomly distributed into one of the following groups: a control group (cage and platform), 3-d...

Hip fractures are a common injury in the elder population with over 250,000 cases in 2010 occurring in patients of age 65 and older [1]. Hip fractures are estimated to cost nearly 2.9 billion dollars per year [2]. Adding to these costs are the potential problems that can complicate elder patients’ hospital course such as urinary tract infections and the development of delirium. In fact, deliriu...

BACKGROUND/AIM Elder self-neglect is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. The objective of this study is to examine the prospective relationship between reported elder self-neglect and the rate of 30-day hospital readmission in a community population. METHODS We conducted a prospective population-based study of community-dwelling older adults who participated in the Chicago Heal...

Recent advances in the understanding of elder mistreatment have demonstrated that financial exploitation tends to be one of the most common forms of mistreatment affecting older populations. Agencies such as the World Bank and World Health Organization show significant concern regarding financial exploitation and its connection to physical and emotional injury to victims. The World Bank uses th...

Dwarf elder ( Sambucus ebulus L) is one of the best known medicinal herbs since ancient times. In view of its benefits as a widely applicable phytomedicine, it is still used in folk medicine of different parts of the world. In addition to its nutritional values, dwarf elder contains different phytochemicals among which flavonoids and lectins are responsible for most of its therapeutic effects. ...

The United States population has an increasing number of older adults. One health problem often unrecognized in this aging population is elder abuse. Elder abuse can be classified into six categories: (1) physical abuse, (2) sexual abuse, (3) financial exploitation, (4) neglect, (5) psychological abuse, and (6) violation of rights. The abused older adult often lives with the abuser, has no outs...

As a consequence of the steadily growing older population, and increased demands on family for community based care of elderly, elder abuse is an issue to be considered in all domains of social work practice. Intervention in cases of elder abuse is often fraught with ambiguity and ethical dilemmas as the application of professional principles is less than straightforward, bringing to the fore p...

Several Archstone Foundation funded projects developed and implemented training curricula on elder abuse for mandated reporters such as dentists, adult protective services workers, paramedics, and coroner investigators. Common education and training issues emerged, including the need to provide basic content on normal aging and the need for creating standardized trainings. Strategies include in...

Robot factors such as motions and utterances have a possibility of interaction effects with generation and other human factors, and these effects influence robotics design in elder care. Some psychological experiments conducted in our research group found these interaction effects between generation and other factors based on directly comparison between younger and elder persons in interaction ...