BACKGROUND The nutritional status of the aging individual results from a complex interaction between personal and environmental factors. A disease influences and is influenced by the nutritional status and the functional capacity of the individual. We asses the relationship between nutritional status and indicators of functional capacity among recently hospitalized elderly in a general hospital...

Internet use reduces the isolation or exclusion of individuals in specific socio-economic groups and, consequently, increases quality life, with this being especially case for elderly. Knowing that elderly are becoming particularly active dedicating time to Internet, we provide evidence Spanish aged 65 and older dedicate two online activities: search communications. We estimate a SUR model data...

BACKGROUND Ageing of population worldwide will be responsible for a major increase of the incidence of osteoporosis in elderly. For the individual, osteoporotic fractures result in great disability as well as loss of quality of life and also represent an enormous burden for healthcare systems. This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of osteoporosis and its association with serum vi...

The increase in the elderly population, in spite of being a conquest, carries with it a series of personal, social and economical consequences. Aging is a natural process that involves a series of losses, among which we can mention the decrease in the ability to withstand the overloads of the environment and not necessarily a synonym for disease. The elderly, with greater or lesser degree of im...

Aging is associated with an increased susceptibility to infections and chronic inflammatory diseases. This might be caused by dysregulations of the endocrine system with increased activity of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and decreased levels of sex steroids. Therefore, we investigated the stress-response of the HPA axis and glucocorticoid (GC) sensitivity of pro-inflammatory cy...

Trends in the reported rates of suicide by self-poisoning in the elderly from 1974 to 1984 are presented. When all drugs were considered together there was evidence of a slow but progressive decline in age specific rates of suicide in both sexes over the period studied. When individual drugs were considered, however, the overall fall was attributable almost exclusively to a fall in suicides usi...

With the aging of the population, it is important to identify how other age groups perceive the elderly. The objective of this quantitative, cross-sectional and descriptive study was to evaluate the attitude of children living with seniors toward aging. Interviews were conducted with 54 children, aged between seven and ten years old, living with elderly people. After sociodemographic data were ...

We propose a framework to understand the distribution of individual wellbeing and its change over time with an application to the U.S. elderly population. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, we estimate life-cycle dynamics and simulate individual outcome paths starting from age sixty. We use an expected utility framework and the simulated profiles to construct a measure of individu...

Four-drug regimens, such as FIr-B/FOx schedule, can improve efficacy of first-line treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer (MCRC) patients. The present study specifically evaluates feasibility of FIr-B/FOx first-line intensive regimen in fit young-elderly MCRC patients, representing approximately 40% of overall MCRC patients. Activity, efficacy, and safety were equivalent to overall MCRC pati...