Novel Tools and Technologies for Monitoring Healthy Ageing
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 (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 6488
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The number of adults over age 65 is expected to double in the next 40 years in the US, and the proportion of adults over age 65 in China is also projected to increase by twofold by 2050. Ageing populations will create significant challenges for global healthcare systems in the coming decades. Whilst declining physiological function is typical of the ageing process, the rates of decline differ considerably between individuals. Whilst some die of age-related disease in their 60s, others are still active into their 90s. Both genetic and environmental risk factors are likely to contribute towards health inequalities in the elderly, and new tools and technologies are urgently required to monitor and provide insights into the ageing process, and to identify public health measures needed to improve the lives of older people, their families, and their communities.
Epigenetic clocks and other biological ageing markers have recently been proposed as valuable predictors of chronological age and mortality. Wearable devices and body sensors can monitor our physiological functions (respiration rate, skin perspiration, motion evaluation) and vital signs in real-time, encourage us to stay active, and enable elderly people to be more effectively cared for in the community. Whilst many of these devices and biomarkers are currently being evaluated in the community, their applications for improving health through enhanced monitoring appear promising, and may in time help to elucidate the link between health inequality and ageing in the elderly and inform public health policy making.
This Special Issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) focuses on the current development and use of assessment tools and biomarkers of ageing/ aging in the community. We invite manuscript submissions from different disciplines, and accepted manuscript types may include original research articles, reviews, or methodological papers. Here are some examples of topics that could be addressed in this Special Issue:
- Indicators and tools for assessing functional and phenotypic age
- Methodologies for measuring biological age
- Molecular and biological predictors of aging/ageing
- Remote technologies for monitoring functional age and age-related disease in the community
- Environmental and socioeconomic risk factors for accelerated ageing
Dr. Chungho Lau
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ageing
- aging
- geriatrics
- functional age
- biological clocks
- health indicators
- age acceleration
- health technology
- epidemiology
- molecular biomarkers
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