Promoting Healthy Ageing: Effect of Health Behaviors on Physical and Cognitive Functioning
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Behavior, Chronic Disease and Health Promotion".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 5370
Special Issue Editor
2. Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Interests: healthy ageing; intrinsic capacity; frailty; sarcopenia; cognitive function; integrated care; health services research
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
People are living for longer but are not necessarily healthier. To extend our healthspan, the fight against risk factors for disability and dependency throughout the life course needs to become a core focus of public health actions. The World Health Organization (WHO) World report on ageing and health defined healthy ageing as the “process of developing and maintaining the functional ability that enables well-being in older age”. To engage actions in the pursuit of healthy ageing, it is important to identify and target modifiable risk factors. Lifestyles and health behaviors across the life course such as physical exercise and healthy diet, which benefit physical and cognitive functioning, are fundamental in order to foster healthy ageing.
In this Special Issue, we will accept scientific works that focus on conceptual issues of healthy ageing, assessment of healthy ageing, health behaviors that influence physical and cognitive functioning, the effect of multimorbidity on functioning and survival, and interventions that aim at optimising physical and cognitive functioning and promoting healthy ageing. Studies investigating the effect of psychosocial and enviromental factors on physical and cognitive functioning of older people are also relevant to this Special Issue.
Dr. Ruby Yu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- healthy ageing
- healthspan
- intrinsic capacity
- functional ability
- health behaviours
- psychosocial factors
- environmental factors
- age-friendly community
- physical functioning
- cognitive functioning
- multimorbidity
- life course
- risk reduction
- survival
- primary care
- integrated care
- healthy ageing policies
- older adults
