Second Edition of Aging: From an Evolutionary Perspective to Challenges for Healthy Aging
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Aging".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 March 2023) | Viewed by 3706
Special Issue Editor
Interests: ageing; older people; digital health; FAIR data; fairification
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health follows on from the previous issues, Aging: From an Evolutionary Perspective to Challenges for Healthy Aging (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/special_issues/Aging_Perspective_Challenges).
Over the past few centuries, we have been facing an unprecedented rise in human life expectancy, which brings novel societal challenges. Aging is a major risk factor for chronic age-related diseases including cancer, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases, geriatric syndromes, such as frailty and sarcopenia, polypharmacy, and social isolation. Hence, a healthy and disease-free lifespan has not accompanied the increased lifespan. Public health measures to reduce the risk of cancer and metabolic and cardiovascular disease may be effective and monitored in primary care.
The aging of humans is a biological, physiological, and socially dynamic process. According to the World Health Organization, at the biological level, aging results from the impact of the accumulation of multiple forms of molecular and cellular damage in different tissues over time, as a consequence of failure of conserved signaling and cellular maintenance pathways. Sustaining aging with reduced disability requires an extensive understanding of the underlying mechanisms of aging, which are yet unknown, but where genetics may represent a powerful tool.
Preventive interventions aimed at slowing specific effects of aging remain a complex and inconsistent process, and few intervention regimes have been successful. Going forward, we must further evoke the bio-psychosocial aspects of human aging while planning preventive interventions.
To face the challenges of aging, we need a deeper understanding of the bio-psychosocial bases of this phenomenon. On this basis, in this Special Issue, we aim to gather knowledge regarding aging and identify the gaps that we further need to investigate in order to promote healthy and active aging.
Dr. Marta Almada
Guest Editor
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