/channels/taxonomy/term/349/all en /channels/channels/event/memory-lab-spotlight-342622 <h2>Spotlight on Rehabilitation Webinar Series</h2> <p><strong>Marc Roig, PT, PhD.</strong>, brings together international topic experts and innovation from the Memory Lab.</p> Wed, 05 Oct 2022 17:03:44 +0000 webfull 183342 at /channels /channels/channels/news/muscle-discovery-aging-and-memory-plus-other-stories-341562 <p><img alt="muscle" src="//www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/files/newsroom/channels/image/muscle-actin-myosins-web.jpg" style="width:100%" /></p> <h2>Muscle discovery may lead to better drugs</h2> <p>The smallest constituents of muscles, myosin and actin, may be targeted to contribute to more effective treatment methods against heart and muscle diseases, say a group of international researchers at Æ»¹ûÒùÔº and Linnaeus University.</p> Thu, 08 Sep 2022 20:17:43 +0000 webfull 182246 at /channels /channels/channels/event/mcgill-cares-using-technology-and-tools-support-independent-living-older-adults-335531 <p>Join us on <strong>December 22, 2021 at noon</strong> for the next <em><a href="//www.mcgill.ca/medsimcentre/community-outreach/dementia/mcgill-cares-webcasts">Æ»¹ûÒùÔº Cares</a></em> webcast to support informal caregivers.</p> Tue, 14 Dec 2021 15:00:20 +0000 webfull 175519 at /channels /channels/channels/news/study-finds-pandemic-depression-persists-among-older-adults-big-news-network-november-27-2021-335308 <p>A research study from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging, where Dr. Christina Wolfson, a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health is a co-PI was featured by <em>Big News Network</em>.</p> Fri, 03 Dec 2021 23:02:14 +0000 webfull 175284 at /channels /channels/channels/event/mcgill-cares-nutrition-and-healthy-aging-331217 <p>Join us on <strong>June 9, 2021</strong> at noon for the next webcast in our biweekly series, <em><strong><a href="//www.mcgill.ca/medsimcentre/community-outreach/dementia/mcgill-cares-webcasts">Æ»¹ûÒùÔº Cares</a></strong></em>, designed to support </p> Wed, 26 May 2021 20:47:47 +0000 webfull 170788 at /channels /channels/channels/event/mcgill-cares-healthy-aging-stay-strong-and-prevent-dementia-325722 <p>Join us on <strong>November 4 at noon</strong> for the next webcast in our weekly series, <strong><a href="//www.mcgill.ca/medsimcentre/community-outreach/dementia/mcgill-cares-webcasts">Æ»¹ûÒùÔº Cares</a></strong>, designed to support informal care</p> Wed, 28 Oct 2020 13:23:08 +0000 webfull 164674 at /channels /channels/channels/news/national-study-collect-data-aging-adults-experiences-during-covid-19-pandemic-321774 <p>How does a pandemic affect the physical and psychological health of adults as they age? Does COVID-19 have an impact on the delivery of regular health-care services? Does a COVID-19 infection lead to long-term health problems affecting the lungs or brain?</p> Wed, 22 Apr 2020 13:53:19 +0000 webfull 160264 at /channels /channels/channels/news/montreal-researchers-probe-muscle-loss-disease-elderly-300374 <p>A team of Montreal researchers has devised a new set of criteria to better diagnose a disease that affects the elderly, sarcopenia, which causes loss of muscle mass.</p> <p>The improved criteria raise hopes that physicians will be able to detect the disease in people earlier, and therefore, to recommend certain types of exercise and nutrition to stem the loss of muscle mass, say scientists at the Research Institute of the Æ»¹ûÒùÔº Health Centre.</p> Fri, 06 Sep 2019 20:16:14 +0000 webfull 152744 at /channels /channels/channels/news/nature-things-aging-wild-295386 <p>What is the secret to longevity? <b>Kyle Elliott (NRS)</b> and <b>Anne Mouillier (MSE)</b> share clues to the aging process in the black-winged kittiwake in the debut of Aging in the Wild on this week's Nature of Things.</p> <p><a href="http://click.mailsender05.com/ct/2215/2008512/724473799/d40008f58a01b888abcd05ac8c7bfd07">Watch CBC's The Nature of Things</a></p> Wed, 13 Mar 2019 17:06:40 +0000 webfull 147299 at /channels /channels/channels/news/canadians-are-aging-well-287446 <p>It's not every day that one receives a call from a researcher asking if they want to participate in a study on aging for the next 20 years of their lives. That's what 50,000 Canadians aged 45 to 85 have agreed to do in taking part of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA), one of the largest and most comprehensive studies on the health and well-being of the country’s aging population.</p> Thu, 31 May 2018 20:12:52 +0000 webfull 138297 at /channels /channels/channels/news/national-study-shed-light-aging-285235 <div> </div> <div><em>by Brenda Branswell</em></div> <div> </div> <div>Source: <a href="http://mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/s/1762/news/interior.aspx?sid=1762&gid=2&pgid=1885">Æ»¹ûÒùÔº News Magazine</a></div> <div> </div> <div>Imagine getting a phone call asking if you’d like to take part in a study … for the next 20 years.</div> <div> </div> <div>It’s a pitch that makes telemarketing look like child’s play.</div> <div> </div> Tue, 20 Feb 2018 20:43:23 +0000 webfull 135588 at /channels /channels/channels/news/no-detectable-limit-how-long-people-can-live-268769 <p>Emma Morano passed away last April. At 117 years old, the Italian woman was the oldest known living human being.</p> <p>Super- centenarians, such as Morano and Jeanne Calment of France, who famously lived to be 122 years old, continue to fascinate scientists and have led them to wonder just how long humans can live. A study published in <em>Nature</em> last October concluded that the upper limit of human age is peaking at around 115 years.</p> Wed, 28 Jun 2017 17:41:12 +0000 webfull 129025 at /channels /channels/news/41-million-unlock-mysteries-aging-243346 Mon, 09 Mar 2015 11:06:21 +0000 webfull 108639 at /channels /channels/news/new-study-explains-cognitive-ability-differences-among-elderly-226981 <p><span><span><i>Study compares data from hundreds of people in childhood and old age</i></span></span></p> <p></p> <p><span><span>A new study shows compelling evidence that associations between cognitive ability and cortical grey matter in old age can largely be accounted for by cognitive ability in childhood.  The joint study by the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, The Neuro, Æ»¹ûÒùÔº and the University of Edinburgh, UK was published today, June 4 in <i>Molecular Psychiatry</i>. </span></span></p> <p></p> Tue, 04 Jun 2013 13:23:33 +0000 webfull 96863 at /channels /channels/news/what-doesn%E2%80%99t-kill-you-may-make-you-live-longer-236587 <p>What is the secret to aging more slowly and living longer? Not antioxidants, apparently. Mon, 19 May 2014 13:51:38 +0000 webfull 102894 at /channels