Neighborhood Makes or Breaks Active Ageing? Findings from Cross-Sectional Path Analysis.

Mental ill-health prolongs and complicates other chronic illnesses, which is a major public health concern because of the potential stress it places on health systems. Prevention via active aging and place-based interventions thus became increasingly important with population aging, e.g.

Association between childhood invalidation and borderline personality symptoms: self-construal and conformity as moderating factors.

Background: Linehan (1993)'s biosocial model posits that borderline personality disorder (BPD) symptoms develop as a result of a transactional relationship between pre-existing emotional vulnerability and an invalidating childhood environment. Little work, however, has investigated cultural factors that may influence the relationship between childhood invalidation and BPD symptoms. The present study investigated the association between parental invalidation and BPD symptoms, and the role of conformity and self-construal as potential moderators of this association.

Characterisation of Physical Frailty and Associated Physical and Functional Impairments in Mild Cognitive Impairment.

Objective: To characterize the physical frailty phenotype and its associated physical and functional impairments in mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

Method: Participants with MCI ( = 119), normal low cognition (NLC,  = 138), and normal high cognition (NHC,  = 1,681) in the Singapore Longitudinal Ageing Studies (SLAS-2) were compared on the prevalence of physical frailty, low lean body mass, weakness, slow gait, exhaustion and low physical activity, and POMA balance and gait impairment and fall risk.

Results: There were significantly higher prevalence of frailty in MCI (18.