In 2019, the World Health Organization came up with a new way to check how well older people are doing, called the Integrated Care for Older People (ICOPE) framework. This study in Taiwan wanted to find out if there are differences in how men and women over 65 are doing health-wise. Can you guess wh
Did you know that high temperatures and humidity can be deadly for older people's hearts? As we age, our bodies find it tougher to handle extreme weather. While many studies have looked at how heat affects heart disease deaths, the combination of heat and humidity is still a mystery. Scientists use
Picture this: you’re a medical detective, tasked with figuring out if a tiny lung lump is bad news or just a simple speck. Two advanced tools are at your disposal: PET/CT and DCE-CT. But which one is better at pinpointing the dangerous ones? Let’s take a closer look at a study that compared these tw
Messages matter when it comes to social equity. Researchers wanted to see if telling people about racial disparities in child tax credit (CTC) policies might actually hurt support for these policies. They did two experiments, one with a big bunch of people from Prolific and another with an even bigg
Optical molecular imaging in clinical settings often faces a challenge: balancing patient safety with image quality. High frame rates and low excitation doses can lead to noisy images, making it crucial to find effective denoising methods. Most current deep learning techniques fall short because the
Sweden took a unique path during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on protecting the most vulnerable. People aged 70 and over were designated as high-risk. But how did this strategy affect older adults' own feelings about their health and their worries about the virus? This study dives into that quest
China's population is shrinking for the third year in a row. This might not sound like a big deal, but it's a huge challenge for the country. With fewer people being born and more people living longer, China is facing a shortage of working-age folks. This is a common problem in many places, like Jap
As our population ages, we're seeing more older adults fall victim to community crimes. The emotional toll on these victims is huge and long-lasting, yet there's a lack of research on ways to help them. While combining public health services and care is a good idea, no one's really shown how to do i
Everyone knows that getting older brings challenges. But what if the key to handling those challenges isn't avoiding them, but bouncing back from them? That's what a recent study looked into. They checked out how different things, like health, stress, and even personality, can help or hurt our menta
The total functioning capacity (TFC) scale has been a key tool in studying Huntington's disease (HD), helping researchers and doctors monitor how the disease progresses over time. This research looks into how TFC scores change naturally as people with HD age and considers the length of a particular
