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May 7, 2018

7 Life secrets of Centenarians

Will we still be having fun when we reach 100? A chorus of active centenarians answers a resounding, “Yes!”   Margaret Dunning, 102, is a self-made […]
April 10, 2018

Brain’s ‘musical memory’ can escape the ravages of Alzheimer’s

It is a cold morning in a church hall in Croydon, south London, and Peter Edwards is warming up his singers with some call-and-response exercises. But […]
April 10, 2018

Poor education and obesity are risk factors for dementia

At first sight the global growth in Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia looks terrifying. The World Health Organisation’s latest estimates, released in December, put […]
March 7, 2018

International and national geriatric demographics

Launched in 2009, ANCIEN is a research project financed under the 7th EU Research Framework Programme. It ran for a 44-month period and involved 20 partners […]
June 28, 2017

Why Japan’s longest-lived women hold the key to better health

Okinawa is sort of a Japanese Hawaii — an exotic, laid-back group of islands with warm weather, palm trees, and sugar-sand beaches. For almost a thousand […]