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CONCLUSIONS: Higher daily step counts are independently associated with better quality of life, knee-specific function, and physical performance among community-dwelling Thai older adults. A target of 6,000-9,000 steps per day appears clinically meaningful and pragmatically attainable. Daily step count may serve as a practical and scalable metric to guide healthy aging strategies in Asian populations.

CONCLUSION: In this sample of older adults, worse hearing thresholds were associated with poorer performance on cognitive screening instruments and with lower hearing-related quality of life. These findings support further investigation of early hearing assessment and rehabilitation in older adults, and indicate the necessity of effective and timely auditory amplification, even in individuals with moderate hearing loss.

CONCLUSIONS: Older adults with pre-frailty and frailty value online nutrition education but require resources that are personalised, credible, and accessible across diverse learning needs. Findings highlight opportunities to embed consumer voices in resource design and provide future directions for refining the current online nutrition resource. This research contributes to evidence on consumer-informed digital nutrition education to support autonomy, dietary self-management, and healthy ageing.

A large European study revealed that a lower-calorie Mediterranean diet paired with exercise and coaching dramatically reduced the risk of type 2 diabetes. Participants who made these lifestyle changes were 31% less likely to develop the disease over six years. They also lost more weight and trimmed their waistlines compared to those following a standard Mediterranean diet alone.

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