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Remedy our shortage of nurses
Baltimore Sun, United States -
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher in another field can earn a bachelor's degree in nursing in 16 months. With the shortage in mind, ...
Aging Well: ?Turn Back the Clock?
Craig Daily Press, CO -
Interacting with older adults helps young people develop social skills, positive attitudes toward aging and good self-esteem. ...
The Center for Successful Aging celebrates its 10-year anniversary
The Daily Titan, CA -
When assisting older adults with their workouts, Marsh said, she knows they're not doing it just to grow bigger biceps, but they do it to still be able to ...
Young Adults in UK Risking Skin Cancer by ?Binge Tanning?
TamilStar.com, Sri Lanka - 10 minutes ago
"In addition to the short-term discomfort and impact on appearance, sunburn also causes permanent irreversible damage leading to premature-aging and ...
Aging Franchise Players
Cincinnati CityBeat, OH -
Some showed their age, others their ethnicity -- they either were adults or looked older than their age. They are different from today's movie-star template ...

Columbus Dispatch
'Twilight' author courts adults with alien tale
Columbus Dispatch, OH -
Among contemporary writers for young people, Judy Blume has probably had the best luck, with million-selling novels for adults such as Wifey and Summer ...
A celebration of older Americans
Culpeper Star Exponent, VA - May 4, 2008
Aging is quickly becoming an exciting issue on the American stage. That?s why its time for us to recognize and honor older adults for their accomplishments, ...
Changing patterns in vaccine era pose questions about durability ...
The Canadian Press, TORONTO - 36 minutes ago
... adults may find themselves unexpectedly vulnerable to these disease pests from their past? As we head into a world where an ever growing - and aging ...
Increase In Drug Copay Boosts Odds That Older Adults Will Cut Back ...
Medical News Today (press release), UK -
The Society's annual meeting, which runs from April 30 to May 4, is the premier conference on aging research. The University of Pennsylvania researchers who ...
Catholic confab on aging set Friday in Cranberry
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA -
... Catholic Charities Wisdom, Age & Grace Conference, which helps older adults, caregivers, clergy and professionals take a constructive approach to aging. ...
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Neocortical cell counts in normal human adult aging -
RD Terry, R DeTeresa, LA Hansen - Annals of Neurology, 1987 - doi.wiley.com
... Neocortical Cell Counts in Normal Human Adult Aging ... increases with age. Terry RD,
DeTeresa R, Hansen LA : Neocortical cell counts in normal human adult aging. ...

A Voxel-Based Morphometric Study of Ageing in 465 Normal Adult Human Brains -
CD Good, IS Johnsrude, J Ashburner, RNA Henson, KJ … - Neuroimage, 2001 - Elsevier
... the heterogeneic response of various compart- ments of the brain to ageing. In this
cross sectional study of a relatively large group of normal adults (n 465 ...

Human Brain Dopamine Receptors in Children and Aging Adults -
LE BECKER, GP REYNOLDS, ED BIRD, P RIEDERER, K … - SYNAPSE, 1987 - doi.wiley.com
Page 1. SYNAPSE 1:399-404 (1987) Human Brain Dopamine Receptors in Children
and Aging Adults PHILIP SEEMAN, NATALIE ?I. BZOWEJ, HC ...

Echocardiographic assessment of a normal adult aging population -
G Gerstenblith, J Frederiksen, FC Yin, NJ Fortuin, … - Circulation, 1977 - Am Heart Assoc
... ARTICLES. Echocardiographic assessment of a normal adult aging population. G
Gerstenblith, J Frederiksen, FC Yin, NJ Fortuin, EG Lakatta and ML Weisfeldt. ...

Low blood glutathione levels in healthy aging adults. -
CA Lang, S Naryshkin, DL Schneider, BJ Mills, RD … - J Lab Clin Med, 1992 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
J Lab Clin Med. 1992 Nov;120(5):720-5. Low blood glutathione levels in healthy aging
adults. Lang CA, Naryshkin S, Schneider DL, Mills BJ, Lindeman RD. ...

White Matter Structural Integrity in Healthy Aging Adults and Patients With Alzheimer Disease A … -
G Bartzokis, JL Cummings, D Sultzer, VW Henderson, … - Archives of Neurology, 2003 - Am Med Assoc
... White Matter Structural Integrity in Healthy Aging Adults and Patients
With Alzheimer Disease A Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study. ...

… and cognitive functions across the adult life span: A new window to the study of cognitive aging -
PB Baltes, U Lindenberger - Psychology and Aging, 1997 - content.apa.org
... Article]. Emergence of a powerful connection between sensory and cognitive functions
across the adult life span: A new window to the study of cognitive aging? ...

Aging Gracefully: Compensatory Brain Activity in High-Performing Older Adults -
R Cabeza, ND Anderson, JK Locantore, AR McIntosh - Neuroimage, 2002 - Elsevier
... 331?377. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. Cabeza, R. 2002. Hemispheric asymmetry reduction
in old adults: The HAROLD Model. Psychol. Aging 17: 85?100. ...

Adult Development and Aging -
KW Schaie, K Gribbin - Annual Reviews in Psychology, 1975 - Annual Reviews
... elderly subjects did not differ from young or middle-aged adults in the perception
of comfortable temperature (265). In a study of the aging voice, was found ...

The effects of positive and negative social exchanges on aging adults -
B Ingersoll-Dayton, D Morgan, T Antonucci - Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and …, 1997 - Geron Soc America
... Gerontological Society of America. ARTICLES. The effects of positive and negative
social exchanges on aging adults. B Ingersoll-Dayton, D ...

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Aging adults have choices when confronting perceived mental declines
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Aging adults may joke about memory lapses and “early Alzheimer’s.” They may worry when they can’t understand a drug plan or lose track of the characters in a novel.

But they have more control over their “cognitive vitality” than they may realize, says Elizabeth Stine-Morrow, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Illinois, who has spent 20 years studying learning throughout the lifespan.

Aging adults have choices in the way they allocate effort in everyday mental tasks like reading, Stine-Morrow said. They can compensate for subtle age-related changes rather than either giving in to them or giving up completely on the activity, she said. They also have choices in the way they stay mentally engaged and embrace challenges throughout their lifetimes and into older age.
It’s all part of what she has playfully named the “Dumbledore hypothesis of cognitive aging,” based on a line from the headmaster Dumbledore in the third Harry Potter novel: “It is our choices … that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

Certain “fluid abilities,” or “mental mechanics,” do tend to decline with age, Stine-Morrow said, but it matters how we respond. “Minor glitches in the cognitive system can loom larger than they perhaps need to because we’ve got these preconceived ideas about what happens with aging,” she said.

She will discuss her “Dumbledore hypothesis” on Aug. 19 at the American Psychological Association conference in San Francisco, in a presidential address for the Adult Development and Aging division. A paper on the subject has been accepted for publication in the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science.

In her reading research, Stine-Morrow, also a professor in Illinois’ Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, has paid particular attention to changes we make – or fail to make – in the way we process and regulate our reading as we age.

More recently, she has initiated a program called Senior Odyssey, designed to engage older adults in team-based creative problem-solving and other brain-teasing challenges. After a pilot study, she is now at the start of a five-year, $2.8 million grant from the National Institute on Aging to develop the program and study its effectiveness.

Much of her reading research has involved measuring small split-second differences in the way people move through text, and in how and where they pause, noting how those differences affect what they gain or remember from the text.

She has found that older adults who remember more of what they’ve read tend to read differently from either younger readers or older readers who remember less. They had learned, consciously or unconsciously, that “in order to maintain the same level of comprehension and memory for text as you get older, you have to do it differently,” she said.

One thing they do is to spend more time building a “situation model” at the beginning of a story or book. They take time to get a feel for the setting, to get to know the characters, and to get grounded in important details of the story. By doing so, they find it easier to integrate new information later on, Stine-Morrow said. “Page-turners are page-turners later (in a book or story); they’re rarely page-turners early on.”

Older readers with good comprehension also spend more time at what Stine-Morrow calls the “micro level” of their reading, pausing longer and more often to integrate new concepts or to orient themselves to a change of setting in the text.

“Younger adults who have a better memory (of what they’ve read) spend more time doing that conceptual integration, or what we call ‘wrap-up,’ at the ends of sentences, whereas older adults tend to do that more in the middle of sentences,” she said.

In both cases, older readers with good comprehension have learned how to adjust their allocation of effort to compensate for losses in areas such as working memory and language-processing speed. Current research, yet to be published, is looking at how readers respond when they are coached on using these strategies.

“Effort is a good thing; effort doesn’t mean you’re deficient,” Stine-Morrow said. “It’s just the nature of cognition that it requires effort. Every time you allocate effort, it increases your capacity to do that thing in the future. And that becomes even more important as we get older.”

Aging adults can find themselves “embedded in cultural expectations about aging,” Stine-Morrow said. “They buy into cultural stereotypes of diminished cognitive capacity.”

Drawing on another reference from Harry Potter, Stine-Morrow compares those cultural expectations to the “sorting hat” that Harry dons to select which house he will live in at the Hogwarts school. The hat tries to convince him of one choice, but Harry insists on another.

In Stine-Morrow’s analogy, the “sorting hat of cultural expectations” suggests to aging adults that their abilities are in decline. If they listen, they may shy away from intellectual challenges, and in the process possibly hasten a real decline.

“Fundamentally, it’s a choice,” she said. “We make the choice to listen to those murmurings of the sorting hat, or not.”
 
 
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