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Sustained attention is a core cognitive function, frequently declines with age and neurological disease, and is highly relevant for functional outcomes in geriatric populations. Electroencephalography (EEG) offers high temporal resolution for assessing attentional processes, but its feasibility in multimorbid geriatric inpatients remains insufficiently characterized. This study evaluated the procedural and methodological feasibility of EEG-based sustained-attention assessments in geriatric...

Aging is often framed as the gradual erosion of proteostasis, driven by declining chaperone capacity, impaired degradation, and dysregulated protein synthesis. Yet this view implicitly assumes that proteins fail primarily because they misfold or escape clearance. Increasing evidence instead points to a more fundamental problem: aging disrupts the spatial management of the proteome. Gradually, proteins are misplaced, signaling pathways are uncoupled from their compartments, and condensates that...

CONCLUSIONS: Findings underscore the importance of emotionally engaging and expectation-aligned services in mitigating social isolation, with extended services generating the most durable benefits. Strengthening HCBS to address psychosocial and physical needs may support aging-in-place and inform responsive community-based care systems in China and beyond.

With an ageing population and the persistence of unhealthy lifestyle behaviours, health-care systems are challenged by a growing number of individuals living longer with cardiovascular disease and its sequelae. The evolution of cardiac rehabilitation, from a group exercise-based programme to encompassing all aspects of secondary prevention, has led to the ultimate objective of achieving lifelong cardiovascular health for all. In this World Heart Federation Roadmap, we present a united and...

Brain white matter undergoes structural and functional alterations linked to late-life cognitive decline, but the cellular and molecular basis of its selective vulnerability remains incompletely defined. Here, in naturally aged mice, we demonstrate that senescent and disease-associated microglia (DAM) phenotypes converge in hippocampal-adjacent white matter, particularly in the fimbria. Using regional gene expression profiling, immunolabeling, GeoMx digital spatial profiling and CosMx spatial...

Chronic pruritus (or itch) is a common condition associated with aging; however, the neural mechanisms driving age-related itch hypersensitivity remain largely unknown. Here, we investigated the role of serotonergic signaling in modulating itch sensitivity during aging. Aged mice exhibited enhanced mechanical alloknesis without changes in spontaneous scratching behavior, indicating that aging selectively affects mechanically evoked itch. Consistent with this phenotype, aged mice showed elevated...

CONCLUSIONS: The findings contribute to the identification of groups most vulnerable to low social support and low social participation among older adults with disabilities. Because these patterns vary according to the type of social support and type of participation, this study highlights the importance of targeted strategies to promote social inclusion in aging populations.

Accelerated cellular perturbations such as cellular senescence, neuroinflammation and oxidative stress are hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease, a neurodegenerative disease associated with memory decline. However, the senolytic effects of silymarin, a flavonolignan with known antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, on memory decline remain unknown. Hence, we investigated the effect of silymarin on doxycycline-mediated senescence and exacerbated neuroinflammation in lipopolysaccharide-induced...

Biological ageing is a heterogeneous process that shapes susceptibility to chronic disease. However, whether ageing patterns diverge within clinically defined type 2 diabetes (T2D) subgroups remains unclear. We investigated whether epigenetic age acceleration (EAA) differs across T2D phenotypes and whether these patterns relate to subsequent renal vulnerability. We included 607 multi-ethnic Asians with recent-onset T2D previously classified into three clinically distinct subgroups: mild...

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