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An Intergenerational Program,“Nau Gran,”at the University of Valencia (Spain)
2003
(2003). An Intergenerational Program, “Nau Gran,” at the University of Valencia (Spain) Journal of Intergenerational Relationships: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 103-104.
Efficacy, Efficiency … and Stability of Intergenerational Programs?
2011
Aging Societies and Intergenerational Solidarity
2010
Due to an increased life expectancy—more people over 65 years old and never before seen numbers of older adults above 85—all countries around the world are nowadays facing rapid demographic changes...
Family Reciprocity and Caring Relationships in Ageing Societies
2010
Custodial Grandparents: The State of the Art and the Many Faces of this Contribution
2009
The number of grandparent-headed households has been growing steadily since the early seventies, and an even larger increase has been experienced by the number of children reared by their grandpare...
Editorial and Introduction
2010
The steady decline in total fertility rates for all European Union (EU) countries since the 1970s combined with a steady increase in longevity has resulted in the maturing of European populations (...
Grandparents and Their Adolescent Grandchildren: Generational Stake or Generational Complaint? A Study with Dyads in Spain
2010
The majority of research on grandparenting has been carried out either from the perspective of the grandparent or from the perspective of the grandchild. The present study compares the perceptions of grandparents and their adolescent grandchildren on four relationship variables: frequency of contact, shared leisure activities, closeness, and grandparenting styles. A sample of 80 couples answered a series of parallel questionnaires. The results suggest that grandparents perceive a greater level of change in the relationships as grandchildren age. The discrepancies between members of the dyad seem not to follow the intergenerational stake hypothesis, which predicts that older generations will…
Factorial structure of recklessness: To what extent are older drivers different?
2003
This study tests whether the original factorial structure of a recklessness questionnaire can be maintained for the current Spanish population of older drivers.Our recent interest in dedicating special attention to senior citizen mobility (Monterde, 2001), is due to the impending increase of the aging population in Western countries; this has led us to reinitiate the psychometric study of the construct validity, revising and including older drivers in the psychometric aspects of those evaluation instruments that will then be used in the Spanish psycho-medical check of drivers and in research.Factorial analysis was used to determine validity.There was an appearance of a different psychologic…
Lipofuscin Hypothesis of Alzheimer’s Disease
2011
The primary culprit responsible for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) remains unknown. Aβ protein has been identified as the main component of amyloid of senile plaques, the hallmark lesion of AD, but it is not definitively established whether the formation of extracellular Aβ deposits is the absolute harbinger of the series of pathological events that hit the brain in the course of sporadic AD. The aim of this paper is to draw attention to a relatively overlooked age-related product, lipofuscin, and advance the hypothesis that its release into the extracellular space following the death of neurons may substantially contribute to the formation of senile plaques. The presence of intraneuronal Aβ, sim…
An Easy Assessment of Frailty at Baseline Independently Predicts Prognosis in Very Elderly Patients With Acute Coronary Syndromes.
2017
Background: Information about the impact of frailty in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) is scarce. No study has assessed the prognostic impact of frailty as measured by the FRAIL scale in very elderly patients with ACS. Methods: The prospective multicenter LONGEVO-SCA registry included unselected patients with ACS aged 80 years or older. A comprehensive geriatric assessment was performed during hospitalization, including frailty assessment by the FRAIL scale. The primary endpoint was mortality at 6 months. Results: A total of 532 patients were included. Mean age was 84.3 years, 61.7% male. Most patients had positive troponin levels (84%) and high GRACE risk score values (mean 16…