新聞選輯:年長者多走有益！步行可降低近50％心血管疾病風險 「心跳率」是重點

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年長者多走有益！步行可降低近50％心血管疾病風險 「心跳率」是重點- Heho健康 

日期：2022 年 12 月 24 日 

作者：李祉函 

走路不只可以促進血液循環還可增加睡眠品質，一項新研究更顯示，每天多走五分鐘可幫助降低血壓。 走路對身體好處多，《美國商業資訊》報導指出，一項針對六千名受試者長達半個月的研究發現，每天增加 5 分鐘、每週平均增加不行 34 分鐘的步行時間，平均可降低 8.7 毫米汞柱收縮壓。 這項研究結果相當有意義，因為根據刊登《THE LANCET》上的一項分析曾表示，只要降低 5 毫米汞數收縮壓就可顯著降低心臟病、中風以及心血管疾病的發生風險。

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新聞選輯:When Is It Too Late to Start Saving for Retirement?

資料來源:https://money.usnews.com/money/retirement/aging/articles/when-is-it-too-late-to-start-saving-for-retirement

When Is It Too Late to Start Saving for Retirement?
By Rachel Hartman
Reviewed by Emily Brandon
Dec. 23, 2022, at 9:22 a.m.

As retirement nears, it’s common to evaluate your nest egg and decide next steps. When only a few working years remain, you may be wondering if it’s worth saving. If you haven’t yet started, the process of setting aside funds might not seem effective. Any investments you make won’t have many years to earn interest. You might need to access your savings soon after retirement.

As you question if it’s too late to start saving, think about:
How close you are to retirement.
When you want to take Social Security.
What you will need to be comfortable.
How saving in your 50s and 60s could work.

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新聞選輯:銀髮族注意！骨鬆、姿勢不良、核心肌群無力，恐增薦椎骨折風險

資料來源:https://health.gvm.com.tw/article/96890

銀髮族注意！骨鬆、姿勢不良、核心肌群無力，恐增薦椎骨折風險
楊榮森
2022-12-26

王太太今年82歲，一個月前在家中不慎跌倒，自己站起來後，還可以活動，只是覺得下背到右臀部位隱隱疼痛，因為王太太還可以步行，家人討論後並沒有立即送醫院檢查。經過一週的觀察後，疼痛情形並沒有改轉，且右臀部到右大腿出現一片瘀青，行走愈來愈困難，家人送她到門診檢查時，並未發現髖部骨折，仔細檢視X光片發現，在薦椎隱約有很細的裂痕，醫師診斷為未移位的薦椎骨折，安排骨密度檢查發現嚴重骨鬆，腰椎骨密度T值-4.2，血清維生素D的濃度為10ng／ml（正常值30-50ng／ml）；因為薦椎骨折並無移位，建議穿背架保護，並用骨鬆藥物治療，補充維生素D3和鈣，另用止痛藥物和物理治療改善疼痛，二週後情況逐漸好轉，目前行走較方便，仍在門診治療中。

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新聞選輯:Why Does My Sleep Become Worse as I Age?

資料來源:https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/27/well/live/aging-sleep-insomnia.html

Why Does My Sleep Become Worse as I Age?
By Alisha Haridasani Gupta
Dec. 27, 2022

Q: As I’ve gotten older, I’ve found it harder and harder to fall and stay asleep. Why is that?

Dr. Abhinav Singh, medical director of the Indiana Sleep Center and a sleep professor at Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine, likes to answer this question with an analogy. Think of your ability to sleep as though it were a car, he said. As it ages and clocks more miles, it begins to fall apart; it needs more repairs, and its ride becomes less smooth.

The same thing happens with your sleep, Dr. Singh said.

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新聞選輯:Most older Canadians feel positive about aging, but income and health have a big impact: report

資料來源:https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/most-older-canadians-feel-positive-about-aging-but-income-and-health-have-a-big-impact-report-1.6201867

Most older Canadians feel positive about aging, but income and health have a big impact: report

Alexandra Mae Jones
CTVNews.ca writer

Updated Dec. 21, 2022 3:52 a.m. CST
Published Dec. 20, 2022 7:03 p.m. CST

More than half of Canadians over the age of 50 are feeling positive about aging, according to a new national survey, but those who are struggling financially or have poor health were far more likely to struggle with their expectations of aging.

The National Institute on Ageing (NIA) partnered with the Environics Institute for Survey Research to ask 5,885 Canadians aged 50 and older about their experiences with and their expectations of aging.

The resulting report, published on Tuesday, found that optimism is common among older Canadians, with 63 per cent saying they felt positive about growing older and 72 per cent saying they had enough income for their savings to help them avoid major problems in the future.

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新聞選輯:退休理財｜趁年輕備妥2帳戶 不當下流老人

資料來源:https://ctee.com.tw/wealth/tutor/775692.html

退休理財｜趁年輕備妥2帳戶 不當下流老人
工商時報 彭禎伶 2022.12.18

擔心成為「下流老人」嗎？若不想過上「又病又窮又孤獨」的老年時光，台灣人壽建議，趁年輕備好兩大帳戶，即退休金與健康帳戶，才能延緩衰老、避免重症或無人照護，甚至可以遊山玩水吃美食，預約上流的老後年華。

日本社會學者藤田孝典在2015年著作的「下流老人」，形容高齡者又老、又窮、又孤單，引發的社會問題，台灣將在2025年將進入超高齡社會，也就是平均每五個人就有一人是逾65歲以上的高齡者，再加上醫療科技進步，國人平均餘命不斷延長，65歲退休後，平均要再活15年。

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研討展覽:The 3rd Int'l Conference on Aging and Gerontology (ICAG 2023)

資料來源:https://eventsget.com/events/3rd-intl-conference-on-aging-gerontology-icag-2023-113256

The 3rd Int'l Conference on Aging and Gerontology (ICAG 2023)
Conference Title
The 3rd Int'l Conference on Aging and Gerontology (ICAG 2023)
Event Type
Conference
Conference Date
02-06-2023 to 04-06-2023
Location
Chengdu, Sichuan, China

期刊資源:Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics

資料來源:https://connect.springerpub.com/content/sgrargg

Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics
Edited by:
Roland J. Thorpe, Jr., PhD
Jessica A. Kelley, PhD Editorial board
ISSN (print):
0198-8794
ISSN (online):
1944-4036

This landmark annual review has provided over three decades of knowledge, insight, and research on topics critical to gerontologists everywhere. The purpose of this annual review is to critically examine the full gamut of literature on key topics in gerontology and geriatrics, including social and cultural issues, medicine, psychology, economics, and end-of-life issues. ARGG continues its long tradition of professionalism under the editorship of a leading expert in the field of gerontology, Toni C. Antonucci. Over the past 35 years, ARGG has brought together internationally recognized experts in the fields of gerontology and geriatrics, and continues to deliver the highest standards of content and authoritative reviews of research for students, researchers, and clinicians.

期刊資源:Pandemic’s Many Effects on Older Women Documented in Journal

資料來源:https://www.geron.org/press-room/press-releases/2022-press-releases/1481-pandemic-s-many-effects-on-older-women-documented-in-journal


Pandemic’s Many Effects on Older Women Documented in Journal

December 14, 2022
Contact: Todd Kluss
tkluss@geron.org
(202) 587-2839

A new supplemental issue to The Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, titled “The Impact, Experience, and Challenges of COVID-19: The Women’s Health Initiative (WHI),” explores key areas on how older women initially responded to the threat of COVID-19, their concerns about the pandemic, and aspects of their prior health and well-being that may have influenced the impact of COVID-19 on their lives.

The WHI represents one of the largest and most diverse longitudinal studies conducted in postmenopausal women. Three decades after its 1992 launch, 52,543 women continue to be actively engaged in the core of this landmark study, with a mean age of 86.6 (ranging from 73 to 106 years of age). The WHI is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; the journal supplement was made possible by support from Wake Forest University Health Sciences.

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新聞選輯:How Does What We Eat Affect How We Age?

資料來源:https://scitechdaily.com/how-does-what-we-eat-affect-how-we-age/

How Does What We Eat Affect How We Age?

By COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY'S MAILMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH DECEMBER 10, 2022

The results of the study highlight the importance of thinking about nutrition holistically.

According to recent research from the Butler Columbia Aging Center at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, the answer to a seemingly simple question – how does what we eat impact how we age – is unavoidably complex.

While the majority of analyses had focused on the effects of a single nutrient on a single outcome, a conventional, unidimensional approach to understanding the effects of diet on health and aging no longer gives us the full picture. A healthy diet needs to be thought of based on the balance of ensembles of nutrients, rather than by optimizing a series of nutrients one at a time. Up until recently, little was understood about how dietary variation that occurs naturally in humans impacts aging. The findings were recently published in the journal BMC Biology.

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