JMIR Aging

Cognitive training for older adults is crucial before cognitive impairment emerges. During periods of social distancing like the COVID-19 pandemic, cognitive stimuli are lacking. Online dual-task training is proposed as a solution to address these needs.

Frailty syndrome in older adults represents a significant public health concern, characterized by a reduction in physiological reserves and an increased susceptibility to stressors. This can result in adverse health outcomes, including falls, hospitalization, disability and mortality. The early identification and management of frailty are essential for improving quality of life and reducing healthcare costs. Conventional assessment techniques, including dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA), and muscle ultrasonography (US), are efficacious but frequently constrained in primary care settings by financial and accessibility limitations.

Using remote monitoring technology in the context of Alzheimer disease (AD) care presents exciting new opportunities to lessen caregiver stress and improve patient care quality. The application of wearables, environmental sensors, and smart home systems designed specifically for patients with AD represents a promising interdisciplinary approach that integrates advanced technology with health care to enhance patient safety, monitor health parameters in real time, and provide comprehensive support to caregivers.

Exercise interventions can reverse frailty. However, their scalability and sustainability are limited by manpower, which is shrinking with population aging. GrandMove is a program that combines healthy and productive aging strategies to (1) train and employ robust older adults as exercise coaches; and (2) improve fitness and motivate adoption of exercise habit in frail and prefrail older adults.

The global cancer burden is rapidly increasing, with 20 million new cases estimated in 2022. The world population aged ≥ 65 years is also increasing, projected to reach 15.9% by 2050, making cancer control for older patients urgent. Surgical resection is important for cancer treatment; however, predicting postoperative disability and mortality in older patients is crucial for surgical decision-making, considering the quality of life and care burden. Currently, no model directly predicts postoperative functional disability in this population.

Hospitalized frail older adults have an increased risk of developing hospital acquired disability associated with hospital practices of restricted physical activity and immobilization. The use of activity tracking wearable devices may allow to identify and prevent mobility decline reducing hospital acquired disability.

Australia’s aging population is looking to age in place, accessing care alternatives external to the traditional model of residential aged care facilities. This evaluation is situated in a Social Day Program, delivered by an aged care organisation. It is designed to cater for people living with dementia, located in an environment equipped with new technologies including, age-specific interactive computer gaming, social robots, sensory stimulation, and virtual reality. The technologies are designed to support older adults, enabling them to stay connected and maintain physical and cognitive functioning, independence, and quality of life.

As the global population ages, the prevalence of dementia is expected to rise significantly. To alleviate the burden on health care systems and the economy, it is essential to develop effective strategies to enhance cognitive function in older adults. Previous studies have shown that combined nonpharmacological interventions can improve cognition across various domains in older individuals. However, there is no established gold standard for the exact combination and duration of these interventions, which makes it challenging to assess their overall effectiveness.

Teleconsultation has expanded rapidly in recent years, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, and has become standard practice among physicians. The benefits of teleconsultation, namely, improving access to care, ensuring continuity and quality of care, increasing patient satisfaction, and reducing costs and wait times, are well documented. However, its use in nursing practice, especially in long-term care settings, remains underresearched despite its significant transformative potential, particularly in resource-limited and rural settings, where it could address major challenges such as nursing shortages and access to care.

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) publication on age-friendly environments (AFEs) imagines future cities to become more age-friendly to harness the latent potential of older adults, especially those who have restricted mobility. AFE has important implications for older adults in maintaining social connections, independence, and successful aging-in-place. However, technology is notably absent in the 8 intersecting domains of AFEs that the WHO imagines improve older adult well-being, and we investigated whether technology should form a ninth domain. While mobility was severely restricted, the COVID-19 pandemic provided an opportunity to test how older adults’ perceptions of their AFE changed and what role technology was playing.

Alzheimer disease (AD) is the leading type of dementia, demanding comprehensive understanding and intervention strategies. In the United States, where over 6 million people are impacted, the prevalence of AD and related dementias (AD/ADRD) presents a growing public health challenge. However, individuals living with AD/ADRD and their caregivers frequently express feelings of marginalization, describing interactions characterized by perceptions of patient infantilization and a lack of respect.

Sexual response problems among older adults are not an inevitable consequence of aging but rather a response to sexual health. However, there is a lack of recent and multi-center data on this issue in China