New research adds to growing evidence that dementia can be prevented or delayed with modifiable lifestyle factors.

The number of people with food allergies is rising dramatically around the world. In fact, data suggest that peanut allergies have tripled over the past couple of decades.

Television, technology, and transport have transformed our leisure time, communication and movement. These luxuries have also added to a global crisis of inactivity and chronic illness.

If you ask the average young person how old is ‘old’, they would say over 50. Ask an older person and they would say over 65. To complicate things further, chronological age is not necessarily the same as biological, social or psychological age.

Today’s older generation would remember manual typewriters and public phone boxes. Some might even recall when television first entered people’s homes.

It’s been said that “to live is to play”. A bonus of aging is more time for leisurely pursuits. Indeed, a 2016 UK study reported that leisure activities and hobbies were by far the most popular aspirations for older adults.

In 2015, Helping Hand aged care centres implemented an innovative, 12-week exercise program to see if it could improve cognitive and functional abilities in older adults with significant memory loss or dementia.

Welcome news for the aged care sector – the Australian government has announced that a long sought-after royal commission will investigate an “industry in crisis”

Jane is 52 years old. She suffers chronic neck pain and impaired mobility, resulting from an occupational violence attack. But she needs to continue her activities in the domestic domain and understands the importance of staying active despite the pain.

Chronic diseases, impaired mobility and diminished quality of life with aging seem inevitable to most.Although healthy lifestyle habits protect us, researchers say they may have found another way to reverse the aging process.

Although health is core business for hospitals, junk food and soft drinks have long dominated kiosks and vending machines that line hospital foyers and corridors.

People have long thought that dementia is unavoidable if you carry risky genes. Now research is slowly but surely debunking this fateful thinking

While physical decline is an inevitable product of growing old, some people stay stronger and live longer than most. And they tend to cluster in certain regions of the world that have attracted the curiosity of researchers.

Some decline in cognitive faculties is inevitable in the twilight years. But several lifestyle factors can help mitigate waning acuity and increasing forgetfulness.

Advances in mapping the human genome have fostered understanding of our genomic blueprint and its influence on molecular processes, health and disease.

Addressing claims that nutrition supplements can enhance overall health and longevity, a recent review investigated their impact on heart health, stroke and mortality.

Twenty years ago, the term “sarcopenia” – Greek for “poverty of flesh” – was coined to describe the muscle wasting that occurs with aging.

Sparse but increasing evidence points to a delicate balance between weight loss and weight gain in aging.

Protein, an indispensable part of our diet, has multiple roles in the body – particularly in aging for growth, repair and maintaining muscle mass.