Very old people often need round-the-clock long-term care (LTC) in the last phase of life. As longevity is becoming more common, more people live the last years of life at very old age. The association of this change with use…
Socioeconomic status is associated with health and functioning also among the oldest old adults. The results came from the Vitality 90+ study, the School of Health Sciences and Gerontology Research center, University of Tampere. The study was based on the…
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General or abdominal obesity does not predict the development of mobility disability or activities of daily living disbaility in nonagenarians, i.e., in 90-year-old people. This was found in a study published by the University of Tampere and the Gerontology Research…
A fall and subsequent injury decreases a person’s balance confidence and increases his or her fear of falling, was found by postdoctoral researcher Erja Portegijs in a study performed at the Gerontology Research Center in collaboration with the Central Finland…
A position of university lecturer in gerontology at U TampereDear friendsa fixed-term (until 2019) position of university lecturer in gerontology is open at the University of Tampere.https://uta.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_RJ&jgid=1&jid=650For more information, please contact Professor Marja Jylhä at marja.jylha@uta.fi. Gerontology Research Center;PO Box…
A new research shows that accounts of functioning differ between long- term care nurses and older people living in long-term care. For the nurses, functional ability was about the basic functions of everyday life, and they often used formal and…
The 9-year follow-up study in the Vitality 90+ Study showed that also in nonagenarians older age, male gender, the activities of daily living (ADL) disability and mobility disability, poor self-rated health and institutionalization increased the risk of mortality. Especially in…
Plasma cell-free DNA (cf-DNA) has recently emerged as a new biomarker of age-associated systemic inflammation and cell death. . In this study we analyzed the associations between the distinct cf-DNA species (i.e. unmethylated cf-DNA, mitochondrial DNA, RNAse P gene-coding cf-DNA,…
Research news: Circulating cell-free DNA is associated with mortality and inflammatory markers in nonagenarians: the Vitality 90+ Study. Advanced age is typically accompanied with low-grade inflammation – a phenomenon that has also been demonstrated to predict longevity in several studies.…
Post Doctoral researcher Elina Sillanpää was awarded in Young scientist competition organized by the Finnish Society of Sport Sciences in Jyväskylä June 12, 2013. Her presentation and research abstract was based on article ”Muscle power is associated with ventilatory function…
The title of the thesis is Socioeconomic differences in health of the oldest old. The award was given at the national congress of Gerontology June 7, 2013. Gerontology Research Center;PO Box 35, FI-40014 University of JyväskyläStreet Address: Rautpohjankatu 8Gerontology Research…