https://medicalxpress.com/healthy-aging-news/ en-us Latest health news and information about Healthy Aging Being frail appears to accelerate the onset of dementia, particularly in people who show little or no signs of the disease, a University of Queensland-led study has found. Dr. David Ward from UQ's Frazer Institute said the findings suggest frailty could be an important independent clinical marker to help diagnose and potentially treat dementia. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-frailty-key-early-dementia-diagnosis.html Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:20:03 EDT news703918561 Heart failure already affects more than 60 million people worldwide and is one of the leading causes of hospitalization among people 65 and older. Although it is commonly associated with advanced cardiovascular disease, it actually develops over many years, often without symptoms. Authors of a new expert statement published in the European Heart Journal argue that this is precisely why prevention may become the most effective weapon in tackling one of the greatest challenges of modern medicine. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-latest-evidence-factors-early-intervention.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:20:04 EDT news703856966 People around the world are living longer than ever before but spending more of those additional years in poor health, according to a new Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study published in The Lancet Public Health. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-people-longer-years-poor-health.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:30:03 EDT news703841701 Today, most older people with disabilities receive help at home, and there are limited places in nursing homes. At the same time, politicians claim that living at home provides independence and control over everyday life. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-elderly-people-home.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:40:08 EDT news703859315 Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, or NAD+, is all the rage in the healthy aging space. Social media influencers tout NAD+ supplements, injections and infusions as anti-aging miracles that can clear brain fog and improve everything from energy and memory to athletic performance and recovery. But the latest research from the University of Delaware suggests the benefits of boosting NAD+ may be more limited than some marketing claims suggest. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-healthy-aging-supplement-limited-benefits.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:20:05 EDT news703858142 People with dementia, mild cognitive impairment, alcohol addiction or psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia show increased brain aging, each in specific patterns within the brain, according to a study published in PLOS Medicine by Shile Qi from the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, and colleagues. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-brain-scans-reveal-aging-signatures.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:00:01 EDT news703756261 While everyone may benefit from a healthy diet, those with higher levels of Alzheimer's-related blood biomarkers may be more likely to benefit from a MIND diet intervention, according to a new study from the MIND trial. The biomarkers found in participants' blood measure two specific proteins central to Alzheimer's disease: beta-amyloid (or amyloid-β40) and phosphorylated tau (or p-tau181). https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-alzheimer-blood-markers-reveal-benefits.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:40:09 EDT news703854001 Partners do not simply grow old together; they often grow more alike. Decades of shared routines, environments and experiences leave couples with increasingly similar health profiles, a pattern long recognized for obesity, diabetes and heart disease and stroke. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-dementia-higher-spouse-lifestyle.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:20:07 EDT news703846442 Frailty threatens older individuals because it increases their vulnerability to detrimental health outcomes, such as falls, longer hospitalizations or even shortened life expectancy. Biogerontologists are actively exploring a potential health trade-off important to mothers: Whether the production of offspring comes at a maternal cost as a consequence of a diversion of physiological resources that could lead to accelerated aging and increased late-life frailty. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-motherhood-late-life-frailty-companion.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:00:03 EDT news703780626 Chronic, low-grade inflammation in the body—a phenomenon known as "inflammaging" because it increases with age—has been linked to many of today's leading causes of illness and death, including cancer, heart disease, metabolic conditions and neurodegenerative diseases. But scientists have struggled to understand what causes inflammaging or how to reverse its effects. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-thymus-derived-hormone-suppress-age.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 05:00:01 EDT news703756021 A new position statement from the International Osteoporosis Foundation's (IOF) Committee of Scientific Advisors Fracture Working Group urges orthopedic surgeons and bone health specialists to work together to assess and treat osteoporosis before and after joint replacement and spinal fusion surgery. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-systematic-bone-health-optimization-joint.html Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:40:01 EDT news703776521 Many fractures are early-warning signs of osteoporosis. Yet in everyday clinical care, they often go unrecognized and undocumented as warning signs, according to a new nationwide Austrian study by the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Osteology (LBI Osteology). Men are affected more often. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-bone-fractures-unlinked-osteoporosis.html Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:40:01 EDT news703758983 A new neuroimaging study published in the journal Brain Imaging and Behavior provides some of the first evidence that strengthening your brain health through daily habits rewires its physical architecture. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-newly-mri-biomarkers-reveal-physical.html Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:40:07 EDT news703786381 Most of us would like to hang around on the planet for as long as possible, and thankfully, lifespans in many countries are increasing. Scientists are also developing a new field known as longevity medicine, which aims to help people stay healthier for longer as they age. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-healthy-aging-born.html Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:40:02 EDT news703763143 Growing evidence suggests lifelong learning can help combat cognitive decline, but many older adults with dementia avoid traditional classes for fear of not keeping up. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-dementia-patients-gain-peace-concert.html Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:01 EDT news703491541 "Turn off that TV, it'll rot your brain!" has been a household refrain for decades. While "rot" might be too strong a term, researchers are finding that the overall sentiment could have some merit. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-heavy-tv-smaller-brain.html Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:00:01 EDT news703687543 Women who live in disadvantaged neighborhoods face worse heart health and experience faster declines as they approach menopause, according to a long-term study led by the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-women-heart-health-decades.html Sat, 18 Jul 2026 04:30:02 EDT news703566898 There's a small fire isolated in your kitchen. If you had the right tool, you might be able to put it out. But before you can, the sprinklers turn on and flood your entire house. An automatic response to an issue has now damaged everything you own. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-hours-alzheimer-breakthrough.html Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:20:01 EDT news703497775 Parts of the U.S. are experiencing smoke from Canadian wildfires drifting down and rising summer temperatures, creating a potentially deadly situation, according to the American Heart Association, a relentless force changing the future of health for everyone everywhere. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-message-wildfire-summer-heart-health.html Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:00:06 EDT news703484702 Two papers by researchers and policy practitioners provide evidence-based suggestions to help Japan's health system continue to flourish, even as its population rapidly ages. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-japan-redesign-health-diplomacy.html Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:40:04 EDT news703420246 Perimenopause uncertainty is prevalent among 34% of women aged 35 years or older, according to a study published online July 14 in Menopause. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-women-years-older-perimenopause-uncertainty.html Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:20:03 EDT news703427257 We may age at different rates, but none of us escapes aging. A study in mice and human cells by Stanford Medicine researchers pins much of the blame on a particular type of immune cell's increasing inability, with advancing age, to gobble up another immune cell type. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-breakdown-immune-cells-interaction-key.html Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:00:04 EDT news703402717 Heat-related deaths in the U.S. have surged more than 50% since 2000 as the climate warms and temperatures rise to record-breaking levels. This July alone, more than half of Americans were exposed to extreme temperatures as a heat dome descended across the country and the United Nations warned that a Super El Niño, which raises water temperatures in the Pacific, will also intensify temperatures. Yet, most Americans underestimate the dangers of extreme heat. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-qa-americans-underestimating-dangers-extreme.html Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:20:07 EDT news703418143 Researchers from Skoltech and co-authors from AIRI have, for the first time, quantitatively assessed how somatic mutations—random DNA changes that accumulate in cells with age—limit the maximum human lifespan. The work was published in the journal npj Aging. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-upper-limit-human-lifespan-somatic.html Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:00:09 EDT news703407439 Getting patients seen by community health teams within a day of leaving the hospital could slash emergency readmissions and emergency department visits, a new study by University of Manchester researchers suggests. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-home-hospital.html Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:40:04 EDT news703400402 Dozens of research teams around the world are working to halt, treat and even prevent Alzheimer's disease, which silently develops in the brain for more than a decade before symptoms appear. Although recent years have brought important advances, researchers continue to search for therapies that can more effectively alter the course of Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-immune-therapy-alzheimer-phase-trial.html Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:20:04 EDT news703403060 Regularly sleeping long hours each night is associated with higher levels of an Alzheimer's-related protein in the blood, even after accounting for other health factors, a new study from UT Health San Antonio, the academic health center of The University of Texas at San Antonio, suggests. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-links-hours-higher-alzheimer-protein.html Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:00:04 EDT news703399742 While loneliness has been shown to harm one's health, framing it as a health issue shifts responsibility from society to health care, even though health care alone cannot rebuild social ties, a new University of Michigan study warns. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-loneliness-people-sick-doctors.html Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:40:08 EDT news703339741 Open lines of communication between the body's organs are important to health and often falter with age. A new study in mice by researchers at WashU Medicine shows how signals that travel from skeletal muscle to the brain and then activate brown fat and control core body temperature are weakened in elderly mice. The research suggests that finding ways to restore these signals could offer new opportunities to support healthy aging. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-skeletal-muscle-brain-brown-fat.html Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:20:03 EDT news703340961 Advances in research have identified biomarker tests that make it possible to detect signs of neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease years before symptoms appear, creating new opportunities for earlier intervention—and new questions for clinicians, patients and families. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-implications-expansion-alzheimer-biomarker-patients.html Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:40:01 EDT news703338542