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CONCLUSIONS: The findings of this study demonstrate that adequate sleep duration and PA are crucial independent and synergistic protective factors against rapid frailty progression. These findings highlight that concurrently targeting both behaviors is a vital clinical strategy to mitigate severe frailty and promote healthy aging.

CONCLUSIONS: This study highlights the importance of multidimensional health profiles in understanding cognitive vulnerability among older adults. The identified patterns of co-occurring physical and psychosocial symptoms highlight the importance of adopting holistic, tailored strategies to support cognitive health. Developing profile-specific interventions addressing physical function, symptom management, and psychosocial well-being is essential for preventing cognitive decline in this...

CONCLUSION: Home rehabilitation comprises three main intervention approaches. The Activity-based and Exercise-based yield small improvements in BADL and physical performance. Evidence for other ADL outcomes and the Reablement-based remains limited.

INTRODUCTION: Aging is associated with reduced accuracy in recognizing others' emotions, an ability that is important for maintaining social connectedness in later life. Laughter is a social signal with multiple functions, as it can facilitate social bonding but also convey negative social meanings, for example when directed at someone. In previous research we have shown that younger adults are able to classify spontaneously emitted joyful, schadenfreude, and tickling laughter above chance...

CONCLUSION: Conclusion: Fallers presented more depressive symptoms, morbidities, polypharmacy, and worse subjective health status. Depressive symptoms do not act directly over the number of falls; nonetheless, those with depressive symptoms presented a higher chance of falling, which may be associated to slower reaction time. Psychological symptoms play an important role in falls, and should, therefore, be considered in identifying older people at risk and in developing prevention programs.

Orbiting data centers and sunlight reflectors would scupper astronomy by leaving streaks on telescope images and brightening skies, study finds

What if Sigmund Freud was onto something that modern neuroscience is only now beginning to explain? A new paper argues that today's leading theory of the brain—as a prediction machine constantly anticipating the world—closely mirrors ideas psychoanalysis has explored for more than a century.