Chewing disability may contribute to depressive symptoms in older adults, but causal pathways, accounting for time-varying confounding factors, remain unexplored. Previous research shows an association between chewing disability, loneliness, and depression. This study examines the causal relationship between chewing disability and clinically significant depressive symptoms (CSDS) and whether loneliness mediates this association among older adults.

Perceived stress is associated with poor health outcomes, including accelerated cognitive decline and increased risk for dementia. Prior research suggests that emotion regulation may determine the extent to which stress impairs cognition with age. This study extends this work by examining the moderating role of two emotion regulation strategies (cognitive reappraisal; expressive suppression) on the relationship between perceived stress and cognitive decline over 10 years in a sample of older adults.

Despite the rapid growth of older Asian American populations, little is known about their retention and its associated factors in longitudinal aging studies, partially due to the limited longitudinal studies among this population. This study addresses this critical gap by examining key predictors of attrition in this understudied population.

Previous evidence showed that frailty in older age and precarious housing characteristics, respectively, contribute to poorer heat-related health outcomes. It is not known whether these conditions would interact with each other to produce a larger impact on older people's health.

In recognition of the aging population and aged care workforce shortages, calls have been made for responsive and effective strategies for this workforce group. This study aimed to investigate the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of an online mentoring program for aged care support workers serving older adults in New Zealand residential care facilities.

Indicators of midlife health decline are needed to determine people's ability to engage in meaningful activities as they age and to implement early interventions to improve long-term health trajectories. Existing measures of physiological aging are unidimensional, expensive, difficult to collect, or focused on advanced disability, making it challenging to identify exposures that contribute to accelerate aging beginning in midlife.

Multimorbidity is increasingly prevalent among the middle-aged population, yet it is largely often overlooked. We aimed to explore and compare the differences in multimorbidity patterns by sex and age among middle-aged inpatients from China and the United Kingdom.

Elder abuse (EA) conceptualizations are evolving from conventional binary understandings toward a severity lens that more accurately captures the spectrum of victim experiences and complexity of EA intervention. Although momentum behind a focus on severity has grown, our understanding of EA severity risk factors is methodologically limited by studies using clinical convenience samples and/or cross-sectional designs. Informed by the Contextual Theory of Elder Abuse, this article sought to advance the state of science surrounding EA severity risk factors using data from a longitudinal, population-based design and examining factors from several levels of ecological influence.

While research on transgender older adults and health is growing, gaps remain about transgender older adults of color, immigrants, and other groups experiencing multiple forms of marginalization who are shaped by concurring experiences of oppression across the life course. This article aims to address these gaps by examining health challenges and supports among transgender older adults-many of whom are racially minoritized and immigrants-through an Equitable Aging in Health framework.

While cross-sectional associations between any pain and sleep problems have been established, longitudinal studies examining the temporal relationship between back pain and multidimensional sleep health remain limited. We evaluated whether the association between back pain and sleep problems was bidirectional in older men aged 65 years and above.

In 2021, the National Council on Aging developed the Self-Management Curriculum for Wellness and Pain Relief (NCWPR), a peer-based pain self-management program that provides person-centered pain management strategies, credible information on pain management methods and medications, and safe practices for the use of OTC drugs. This study describes a larger-scale, controlled intervention study of the NCWPR implemented to demonstrate its efficacy and readiness for more rigorous translation studies of the NCWPR's impact on participants.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among older adults. While clinical risk factors are well documented, less is known about how perceived neighborhood environments interact with individual coping resources to influence CVD risk. Informed by the Stress Process Model and the Transactional Model of Stress and Coping, this study examines the associations between perceived neighborhood social cohesion and physical disorder and CVD among U.S. older adults, and whether cognitive activity moderates these associations.

Caregiver burden among spouse caregivers is associated with mental health burdens, including suicide. However, longitudinal studies on suicide risk among spouses of dementia patients are limited. This study aimed to investigate suicide risk among spouses of patients with dementia and to examine how sociodemographic factors and healthcare service utilization influence this risk.

Prospective memory (PM), the ability to remember to execute an intention in the future, is critical for performing everyday tasks contributing to health, financial, and social outcomes. PM declines with greater age and in the presence of a cognitive impairment. Toward the goal of developing technology-based support for older adults experiencing cognitive challenges, this study aimed to assess the attitudes of older adults with subjective cognitive complaints (SCCs) toward technology to support PM and their preferences regarding device type and the type of activity being supported.

We previously demonstrated that a telehealth-supported community health worker (CHW) intervention significantly improved clinical outcomes in diabetes care. However, the extent to which these benefits vary across different age groups remains unclear. This study evaluated the effectiveness of a CHW-led multidimensional diabetes intervention in reducing HbA1c across age groups.

Population aging affects health and social care needs. Although its effects on healthcare needs have been widely discussed, less has been said about its implications on social care needs, even though the consequences of living with chronic conditions are related to functional decline, disability, dependency, and mobility limitation. This study aims to identify trajectories of healthcare and social care needs after the onset of chronic conditions, as well as to explore through cross-country comparisons how demographic, socioeconomic, living arrangements, and health-related dimensions explain individuals' trajectories.

Engaging long-term care residents and families in decisions and as active partners in care can improve the quality of care. However, barriers to effective communication among the care team, residents, and families remain. This study aimed to assess the feasibility, acceptability, and satisfaction with an intervention to engage residents, their family, and team members in a collaborative approach to care planning to support person- and relationship-centered care.

This study examined the association of self-perceptions of aging (SPA) and memory trajectories and the mediating role of social connections in their association.

Home and community-based services (HCBS) intend to allow individuals to age in their home or a home-like environment. The relationship between receiving specific types of HCBS and person-reported HCBS quality remains unclear.

Caregiving for people with dementia is especially challenging in rural areas of the United States, where services and support are often limited. This study explores how contextual factors-environmental conditions, resource availability, and family and social dynamics-intersect to shape experiences of rural family caregivers.

Although considerable evidence shows that various neighborhood characteristics are related to cognitive function, we propose the concept of cognitive capital as a theoretically informed and parsimonious way to guide research on how neighborhood contextual factors may influence cognitive function in later life.