{"title":"Golf Training: A New Possibility to Counteract Decline in Visual-Spatial Abilities?","authors":"P. Jansen","doi":"10.4172/2167-7182.1000375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2167-7182.1000375","url":null,"abstract":"It is well documented that there is a large age-related decrease in spatial performance. Older adults (63-79.5 years) showed a decrease in spatial performance independent of the kind of test, the test situation and timing conditions.","PeriodicalId":289564,"journal":{"name":"Journal of gerontology and geriatric research","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121641493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Grandparent-Grandchild Relationship and Its Effects on the Development of Young Children s Social Competence","authors":"Yan Li, Tiantian Liu, Ziwei Gao, H. He","doi":"10.4172/2167-7182.1000374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2167-7182.1000374","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: Grandparenting is a widespread phenomenon in Mainland China. In the present study, we examined \u0000the grandparents-grandchildren relationship and its influences on preschool children’s social competence. \u0000Methods: One hundred and ninety-nine elder adults who live together with their young grandchildren completed \u0000 Grandparents-grandchildren Relationship Scale with demographic information. The children’s social competence \u0000were reported by their teachers. \u0000Results: Correlation analyses showed that all dimensions of grandparents-grandchildren relationship were \u0000 significant correlated with young children’s social competence. Regression analyses some significant effects of \u0000 some dimensions of the relationship of grandparents-grandchildren on children’s social competence (intimacy, \u0000 β=6.137, SE=1.170, p<0.01; direction-sharing, β=4.631, SE=0.802, p<0.01; avoidance, β=-1.370, SE=0.662, \u0000p=0.04, and conflict-restriction, β=-5.176, SE=0.475, p<0.01). \u0000Conclusion: We can evaluate the relationship of grandparents-grandchildren from 6 dimensions and this \u0000 relationship could predict the children’s social competence: the level of intimacy and direction-sharing could \u0000 positively predict the children’s social competence while the level of avoidance and conflict-restriction negatively \u0000 predict the children’s social competence. Therefore, to enhance children’s social competence, we should do \u0000 something to increase the grandparents-grandchildren’s intimacy and direction-sharing, and decrease the avoidant \u0000and conflict-restrict relation between the two generations.","PeriodicalId":289564,"journal":{"name":"Journal of gerontology and geriatric research","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130003417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Particularities in the Dental Treatment of Elderly Edentulous Patients with Parkinsons Disease","authors":"T. S. P. Lacerda","doi":"10.4172/2167-7182.1000376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2167-7182.1000376","url":null,"abstract":"Parkinson is one of the most common diseases nowadays. It affects all ethnic and social groups worldwide. According to the data from WHO (World Health Organization), around 1% of the population older than 65 is affected by it. Generally speaking, young adults are not among the risk group.","PeriodicalId":289564,"journal":{"name":"Journal of gerontology and geriatric research","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115843278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Obstructive Sleep Apnea: An Emerging Risk Factor for Stroke","authors":"P. Papneja","doi":"10.4172/2167-7182.1000372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2167-7182.1000372","url":null,"abstract":"Obstructive sleep apnea, a sleep-related breathing disorder that causes partial or complete obstruction of breathing affects 6% to 17% of general population. However, it affects adults over the age 60 at much higher rates. Some studies report prevalence rates as high as 49% in elderly.","PeriodicalId":289564,"journal":{"name":"Journal of gerontology and geriatric research","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122623626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Shilina, N. Nikolsky, L. Alekseenko, T. Grinchuk
{"title":"Genetic Stability and Aging","authors":"M. Shilina, N. Nikolsky, L. Alekseenko, T. Grinchuk","doi":"10.4172/2167-7182.1000371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2167-7182.1000371","url":null,"abstract":"Biological aspects of aging are interdisciplinary topics in gerontology and geriatrics. Aging begins at the cellular level and then spread to tissues and organs. Knowledge of mechanisms guiding aging at the cellular level improves our understanding of what happens to the human organism. It is generally accepted that the organism aging is accompanied by accumulation of mutations and genetic instability.","PeriodicalId":289564,"journal":{"name":"Journal of gerontology and geriatric research","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132338791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aging happens by default","authors":"Alvaro MacieiraCoelho","doi":"10.4172/2167-7182.1000369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2167-7182.1000369","url":null,"abstract":"With rare exceptions theories proposed to explain aging focalized in general on one specific aspect of the functioning of the organism. This does not seem reasonable, as the cause of such a general phenomenon cannot be pinpointed. One has to look for the phenomenon of aging in terms of the broad requirements needed for life to persist; the most fundamental requirement is energy expenditure, which inevitably follows the second law of thermodynamic. Hence aging is an unavoidable event, there is no alternative it is inherent to the process of existing.","PeriodicalId":289564,"journal":{"name":"Journal of gerontology and geriatric research","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124841423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why do Medicare-Medicaid Dual Eligibles Have High Cost-Related Medication Non-Adherence Rates?","authors":"James X Zhang","doi":"10.4172/2167-7182.1000368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2167-7182.1000368","url":null,"abstract":"The access barrier to medication has been a persistent challenge in care for the elderly in the U.S. Twenty-six percent of the elderly do not take medication as prescribed due to a cost barrier.","PeriodicalId":289564,"journal":{"name":"Journal of gerontology and geriatric research","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133670971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Internet Use and Access to Health Information among Canadians: Are the Elderly on the Sidelines?","authors":"Ernest Johnson, C. ShanthiJohnson","doi":"10.4172/2167-7182.1000367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2167-7182.1000367","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined the use of the Internet to access health information online among Canadians and involved the secondary analysis of the Canadian household internet use survey data (n=33,832). The results showed that gender and marital status as well as the Internet use characteristics such as the location, frequency and duration were significantly related to individuals accessing health information online (p = 0.05) and age, education, occupation, income and the type of the Internet connection were not. The findings have implications for health promotion and health care delivery and provide the benchmark necessary for future trend-analyses in health information access.","PeriodicalId":289564,"journal":{"name":"Journal of gerontology and geriatric research","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127743623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Educational Approaches to Address Barriers to Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices","authors":"P. Kolb","doi":"10.4172/2167-7182.1000366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2167-7182.1000366","url":null,"abstract":"The author describes barriers to evidence based practices (EBP); use of education to address gaps among research, education, and practice for EBP; the need for cultural competence; and educational approaches for community-based implementation. EBP is central to development of quality health and social services, but challenges remain in translation of research findings into EBP","PeriodicalId":289564,"journal":{"name":"Journal of gerontology and geriatric research","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124098881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Holistic Care of Older Adults: Model and Two Cases","authors":"L. Hyer, K. Wagner","doi":"10.4172/2167-7182.1000365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2167-7182.1000365","url":null,"abstract":"Joe is a 69 y/o male referred for an evaluation for cognitive problems and depression. He was an accountant who had been very successful. He retired in 2009 and has been living in Dallas until he had an accident in 2015.","PeriodicalId":289564,"journal":{"name":"Journal of gerontology and geriatric research","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127117991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}