Technological applications to enhance independence in daily activities for older adults: a systematic review.

Introduction: Monitoring daily activities in older adults using sensor technologies has grown significantly over the past two decades, evolving from simple tools to advanced systems that integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) for predictive monitoring. Despite these advances, there is still a need for a comprehensive review that addresses both technological progress and its impact on autonomous aging.

Objective: To conduct a systematic review of sensor technologies used to monitor the daily activities of independent older adults, focusing on sensor types, applications, usage contexts, and their evolution over time.

Examining the influence of self-care practices on brain activity in healthy older adults.

Introduction: Studies on the aging brain often occur in active settings, but comparatively few investigate brain activity in resting states. However, exploring brain activity in a resting state offers valuable insights into spontaneous neural processes unaffected by task-specific influences. Objective: To investigate the relationship between self-care practices, cognitive function, and patterns of brain activity in healthy older adults, taking into account predictions from aging brain models.

Self-care interventions of community-dwelling older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Introduction: The current notion of "care in old age" should be reconceptualized in the ageing societies of the 21st century. Currently, "being old" means that one is actively involved in their care and has the desire to retain control and independence.

Objective: Understand and analyze the efficacy of interventions in the physical and psychological self-care practices of healthy community-dwelling older people.

Electrophysiological connectivity of logical deduction: Early cortical MEG study.

Complex human reasoning involves minimal abilities to extract conclusions implied in the available information. These abilities are considered "deductive" because they exemplify certain abstract relations among propositions or probabilities called deductive arguments. However, the electrophysiological dynamics which supports such complex cognitive processes has not been addressed yet.

Electrical analysis of logical complexity: an exploratory eeg study of logically valid/invalid deducive inference.

Introduction: Logically valid deductive arguments are clear examples of abstract recursive computational procedures on propositions or on probabilities. However, it is not known if the cortical time-consuming inferential processes in which logical arguments are eventually realized in the brain are in fact physically different from other kinds of inferential processes.

Methods: In order to determine whether an electrical EEG discernible pattern of logical deduction exists or not, a new experimental paradigm is proposed contrasting logically valid and invalid inferences with exactly the same content (same premises and same relational variables) and distinct logical complexity (propositional truth-functional operators).

Practices of Self-Care in Healthy Old Age: A Field Study.

Unlabelled: Two competing psychological approaches for how to care for oneself to stay healthy in old age have coexisted and dominated the scientific literature.

Objective: Identify the self-care practices of healthy older adults and establish the relationship between these practices and the cognitive processes involved.

Method: 105 healthy older people (83.

Brain electrical traits of logical validity.

Neuroscience has studied deductive reasoning over the last 20 years under the assumption that deductive inferences are not only de jure but also de facto distinct from other forms of inference. The objective of this research is to verify if logically valid deductions leave any cerebral electrical trait that is distinct from the trait left by non-valid deductions. 23 subjects with an average age of 20.

Single Time-Point Study of the Home Environment and Functionality of Older Adults in Spain.

: The literature favors discussion on socio-spatial conditions at the macro- (city) and micro- (housing) level that promote healthy aging in place. Objectives: (a) Identify the association between physical and social characteristics of the family home and the functional level and quality of life of older people and (b) provide normative data on adequate/inadequate households based on the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) inventory and the Spanish Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly (S-IQCODE) test. : In total, 79 healthy older adults completed the HOME inventory and the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), S-IQCODE, Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K-10) and ICEpop CAPability measure for Older people (ICECAP-O) tests.

Evaluating Successful Aging in Older People Who Participated in Computerized or Paper-and-Pencil Memory Training: The Memoria Mejor Program.

The evaluation of successful aging includes objective criteria to measure cognitive function and psychological well-being and levels of functional capacity needed to perform daily activities related to the preservation of autonomy. In addition, the emergence of computerized cognitive training programs has allowed us to use a new class of tools to verify the theoretical postulates of neural plasticity in aging. The present study investigates subjective and objective criteria of successful aging in healthy older adults participating in a memory training program offered as two versions: computer and paper-and-pencil.

Six-Year Training Improves Everyday Memory in Healthy Older People. Randomized Controlled Trial.

Purpose Of The Study: Everyday memory of older persons does not improve with intensive memory training programs. This study proposes a change in these programs based on a time-extended and massive intervention format.

Design And Methods: The sample of 1007 healthy older persons (mean age 71.

Measurable benefits on brain activity from the practice of educational leisure.

Unlabelled: Even if behavioral studies relate leisure practices to the preservation of memory in old persons, there is unsubstantial evidence of the import of leisure on brain activity.

Aim: This study was to compare the brain activity of elderly retired people who engage in different types of leisure activities.

Methods: Quasi-experimental study over a sample of 60 elderly, retired subjects distributed into three groups according to the leisure activities they practised: educational leisure (G1), memory games (G2), and card games (G3).

Occipital cortex activation by long-term repetitive tactile stimulation is necessary for object recognition in blinds: a case report.

Tactile vision has been approached from a variety of angles using different techniques. So far, a certain kind of object (and text) recognition has been shown, though seeing as such has not been achieved yet, and it remains unclear. Trough repetitive passive tactile stimulation perceptual processing is transferred from temporo-parietal to occipital areas, which affects object recognition.

[Is the early brain organisation of spatial information conveyed by tactile stimuli performed in different ways in congenital and acquired blind children? A pilot study].

Cortical reorganization after congenital blindness is not sufficiently known yet it does offer an optimum window of opportunity to study the effects of absolute sensorial deprivation. Cross-modality in people with blindness has been documented, but it may differ in congenital blindness and in early blindness. Vibrotactile passive stimulation of lines and letters generates different electroencephalographic patterns with different source localizations in two children with blindness, aged 9 and 10, respectively with congenital blindness and early blindness with some remnants of vision.

[Psychopathy in children and teenagers: models, theories and the latest research].

Most research about psychopathy have been conducted on adults. It is important to focus on the study of psychopathy in children to better understand the evolution of this disorder. This article focuses on a brief review of the contributions from psychology, where trait callous unemotional is closely related to the presence of antisocial behavior and conduct disorders, therefore, is an important factor in development of psychopathy.

Recruitment of occipital cortex during sensory substitution training linked to subjective experience of seeing in people with blindness.

Over three months of intensive training with a tactile stimulation device, 18 blind and 10 blindfolded seeing subjects improved in their ability to identify geometric figures by touch. Seven blind subjects spontaneously reported 'visual qualia', the subjective sensation of seeing flashes of light congruent with tactile stimuli. In the latter subjects tactile stimulation evoked activation of occipital cortex on electroencephalography (EEG).

Vital satisfaction as a health indicator in elderly women.

The long life expentancy of the elderly motivates interest in their quality of life. Our study analyzes vital satisfaction as a global indicator of the three dimensions (physical, mental, and social) of the quality of life in relation to health. The subjects were 310 women, with an average age of 71.

Darbepoetin alpha for the treatment of anemia in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes.

Background: Anemia occurs as a comorbidity in from 80% to 85% of patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS): It causes fatigue, increases transfusion needs, and reduces quality of life. Darbepoetin alpha (DA) is an erythropoiesis-stimulating protein (ESP) that is more highly glycosylated and has a longer half-life relative to recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO), thus, allowing less frequent administration, increased convenience, and better compliance.

Methods: This retrospective analysis included 81 patients with MDS who were enrolled at 9 Spanish centers and who received once-weekly, subcutaneous DA (75-300 microg) for 16 weeks.