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Health, functioning, and disability in older adults—present status and future implications

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Examination of reported trends in morbidity and mortality in older adults during the past two decades found some evidence for compression of morbidity, but with different methods, these measures are not directly comparable.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2015-02-07 and is currently open access. It has received 707 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Compression of morbidity.

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The World report on ageing and health: a policy framework for healthy ageing.

TL;DR: The first World report on ageing and health is released, reviewing current knowledge and gaps and providing a public health framework for action, built around a redefinition of healthy ageing that centres on the notion of functional ability.
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Global estimates of the need for rehabilitation based on the Global Burden of Disease study 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

TL;DR: This is the first study to produce a global estimate of the need for rehabilitation services and to show that at least one in every three people in the world needs rehabilitation at some point in the course of their disabling illness or injury.
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From gut dysbiosis to altered brain function and mental illness: mechanisms and pathways

TL;DR: Roles of gut microbiome in shaping brain development and neurological function, and the mechanisms by which it can contribute to mental illness are examined; how the insight provided by this new and exciting field of research can inform care and provide a basis for the design of novel, microbiota-targeted, therapies is discussed.
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Physical activity and healthy ageing: A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal cohort studies

TL;DR: There is consistent evidence from longitudinal observational studies that PA is positively associated with HA, regardless of definition and measurement, and the limited research on ageing in low-and-middle income countries is indicated.
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The World Report on Ageing and Health

TL;DR: A large number of the questioned patients had prior musculoskeletal conditions and the results confirmed the need for further research into these conditions to determine their prognosis.
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International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health

TL;DR: The World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) has been revised to recognize that the concept of disability resides largely in the sociocultural domain of the authors' lives rather than being an attribute of the individual.
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Depression, chronic diseases, and decrements in health: results from the World Health Surveys

TL;DR: Depression produces the greatest decrement in health compared with the chronic diseases angina, arthritis, asthma, and diabetes, and the urgency of addressing depression as a public-health priority is indicated to improve the overall health of populations.
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Ageing populations: the challenges ahead

TL;DR: Research suggests that ageing processes are modifiable and that people are living longer without severe disability, and this finding will be important for the chances to meet the challenges of ageing populations.
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Depression, chronic diseases, and decrements in health : results from the world health surveys. Commentary

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the effect of depression, alone or as a comorbidity, on overall health status and found that depression produces the greatest decrement in health compared with the chronic diseases angina, arthritis, asthma, and diabetes.
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The burden of disease in older people and implications for health policy and practice

TL;DR: The authors in this article found that 30.23% of the total global burden of disease is attributable to disorders in people aged 60 years and older, and the leading contributors to disease burden in older people are cardiovascular diseases, malignant neoplasms (15·1%), chronic respiratory diseases (9·5%), musculoskeletal diseases (7·5), and neurological and mental disorders (6·6%).
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