Background: Structured activities to stimulate brain function—that is, cognitive training
exercises—are promoted to slow or prevent cognitive decline, including dementia, but their …

Societies around the world are concerned about dementia and the other forms of cognitive
impairment that affect many older adults. We now know that brain changes typically begin …

Background The number of people living with dementia is increasing rapidly. Clinical
dementia does not develop suddenly, but rather is preceded by a period of cognitive decline …

Brain training programs are currently one effective solution to prevent cognitive decline in
healthy aging. We conducted a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials assessing the …

Background Increasing age is associated with a natural decline in cognitive function and is
the greatest risk factor for dementia. Cognitive decline and dementia are significant threats …

Research on the effects of social media use at older ages has largely focused on social
benefits. Yet, participation in these new media forms may result in other favorable outcomes …

Global ageing demographics coupled with increased urbanisation pose major challenges to
the provision of optimal living environments for older persons, particularly in relation to …

In this paper, we present Health Buddy, a voice agent integrated into commercially available
Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) to support informal self-regulated learning (SRL) of health …

The human lifespan has expanded drastically in the last few centuries, due to improvements
in sanitation, medicine, and nutrition, but with this increase in longevity comes higher rates …

Biologically based senescence processes and cumulative opportunities for experience
collectively give rise to profound changes in cognition in later adulthood, the trajectories of …