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Study: Long-term meditation can help slow down aging-related brain volume decline

February 18, 2015 by SharpBrains

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Long-term med­i­ta­tion tied to less brain loss (Reuters):

“Peo­ple who report­ed med­i­tat­ing for an aver­age of 20 years had high­er brain vol­umes than the aver­age per­son, researchers report in Fron­tiers in Psychology.

Kurth and his col­leagues write that they can’t say med­i­ta­tion caused its prac­ti­tion­ers to lose less brain vol­ume, how­ev­er. Oth­er habits of long-term med­i­ta­tors may also influ­ence brain volume…

Near­ly 18 mil­lion adults and 1 mil­lion chil­dren prac­ticed med­i­ta­tion in the U.S. in 2012, [Read more…] about Study: Long-term med­i­ta­tion can help slow down aging-relat­ed brain vol­ume decline

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: brain, Brain-Plasticity, brain-scans, brain-volume, complementary medicine, gray matter atrophy, gray-matter, human-brain, life-expectancy, meditation, mental activities, Psychology

To build a healthier future, let’s empower and equip individuals to be in control of their well-being

September 15, 2014 by SharpBrains

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How we can all build a health­i­er future (World Eco­nom­ic Forum blog):

“Just 40 years ago life expectan­cy in Asia was slight­ly above age 50. In 2000, the continent’s 210 mil­lion peo­ple aged over 65 could expect to live just anoth­er five years, to 70 on aver­age. By 2050, [Read more…] about To build a health­i­er future, let’s empow­er and equip indi­vid­u­als to be in con­trol of their well-being

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: chronic disease, health, life-expectancy, longevity, well-being

Research on Older Driver’s Safety

January 13, 2009 by Alvaro Fernandez

Good arti­cle in the New York Times today:
An Epi­dem­ic of Crash­es Among the Aging? Unlike­ly, Study Says

- “The (Insur­ance Insti­tute for High­way Dri­ving) insur­ance insti­tute is con­duct­ing fur­ther research to deter­mine why the risks appear to be going down for old­er dri­vers. It may be that today’s old­er dri­vers are sim­ply in bet­ter phys­i­cal and men­tal shape than their coun­ter­parts a decade ago, so they are not only less like­ly to make a dri­ving mis­take, but also less frail and bet­ter able to sur­vive injuries.”

There is no doubt that, as a group, old­er per­sons of any giv­en age are in bet­ter phys­i­cal and men­tal shape today than their coun­ter­parts years ago. For con­text, world­wide life expectan­cy has increased more than 20 years in less than 6o years — so you can imag­ine how a per­son in his or her ear­ly 70s today is in bet­ter shape than some­one in his or her mid-60s a few decades back.

Still, as the num­ber of peo­ple over the age of 60 starts to grow expo­nen­tial­ly giv­en the influx of baby boomers, soci­ety at large will prob­a­bly ben­e­fit from start­ing to think through 1) what are the types of pro­grams, whether intro­duced and man­aged by the AARP, DMV or car insur­ance com­pa­nies, that can help old­er adults dri­ve safe­ly for as long as they want and need, 2) what are the mech­a­nisms to pre­vent hav­ing dri­vers in our roads who don’t pos­sess the min­i­mum per­cep­tu­al and cog­ni­tive abil­i­ties required to dri­ve “safe­ly” (and what “safe­ly” real­ly means).

And, yes, we should prob­a­bly have a sim­i­lar con­ver­sa­tion regard­ing teenage driving.
For relat­ed read­ing, you may enjoy these 2 articles:

- All­state: Can we improve Dri­ver Safe­ty using Posit Sci­ence InSight?

- Improv­ing Dri­ving Skills and Brain Func­tion­ing- Inter­view with ACTIVE’s Jer­ri Edwards

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Filed Under: Technology & Innovation Tagged With: AARP, ACTIVE, aging, Allstate, baby-boomers, car-insurance, cognitive-abilities, crashes, DMV, driving-skills, epidemic, insurance, Insurance-Institute-for-Highway-Driving, Jerri-Edwards, life-expectancy, perceptual-abilities, Posit-Science, Posit-Science-Insight, safety

The Future of the Aging Society: Burden or Human Capital?

November 13, 2008 by Alvaro Fernandez

(Please note that this is my per­son­al take at the dis­cus­sions that took place in Dubai as part of the Glob­al Agen­da Coun­cil on the Chal­lenges of Geron­tol­ogy put togeth­er by the World Eco­nom­ic Forum, and builds on the work of my col­leagues, but it does not rep­re­sent a for­mal doc­u­ment or state­ment of posi­tion. Sim­ply put, we would like to engage your brain in defin­ing the chal­lenges and outlining/ exe­cut­ing the solutions).

Con­text: The Chal­lenges of the Aging Society

The world is aging. This is occur­ring in two ways: through shifts in the age struc­ture that will even­tu­al­ly lead to many more peo­ple reach­ing old­er ages than ever before, and through con­tin­ued suc­cess in extend­ing life. Less than 100 years ago, life expectan­cy was between 30 to 40 years. Today, close to 800 mil­lion cit­i­zens are 60 and over.

And aging in health­i­er ways. Aging has incor­rect­ly been asso­ci­at­ed with decline and decay, when in fact many peo­ple live healthy into old­er ages. There has been a syn­chro­nous exten­sion in life expectan­cy and qual­i­ty of life — the aver­age 65-year-old today is much health­i­er, phys­i­cal­ly and men­tal­ly, than the aver­age 50-year-old of 100–150 years ago — when most exist­ing insti­tu­tions were envi­sioned and created.

Healthy life can be fur­ther extend­ed with exist­ing knowl­edge. The fact is the onset and pro­gres­sion of fatal and dis­abling dis­eases, dis­or­ders, and dis­abil­i­ty can be post­poned using well-researched basic mea­sures of pub­lic health, envi­ron­men­tal and behav­iour­al changes, and med­ical tech­nol­o­gy inter­ven­tions. The same meth­ods may be used to improve or main­tain men­tal and phys­i­cal functioning.

Our health­care and retire­ment sys­tems are on bank­rupt­cy track — their premis­es are out­dat­ed. Exist­ing insti­tu­tions, poli­cies and atti­tudes do not reflect the points out­lined above, hav­ing been devel­oped for a soci­ety that no longer exists. We need to get on the right track: [Read more…] about The Future of the Aging Soci­ety: Bur­den or Human Capital?

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: age, aging, aging-society, biomedical-research, brain-age, brainage, cities, civic-engagement, cognitive, cognitive-abilities, Dubai, experience-corps, geriatric-medicine, gerontology, Global-Agenda-Council, global-companies, health, healthy-aging, Healthy-Lifestyles, human-capital, insurance, life-expectancy, Lifelong-learning, Longevity-Dividend, mental-functioning, Millennium-Development, physical-functioning, public-health, quality-of-life, redesign, retirement, technology, World-Economic-Forum

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