Health and Cognition in Old Age: From Biomedical and Life Course Factors to Policy and Practice

Perspectives on health and cognition in old age. Why we need multidisciplinary investigations.- Part I: What constitutes health, cognition, and well-being in old age from a biomedical perspective?.- Vascular aging: revealing the role and clinical perspectives of the urokinase system .- Impact of metabolic control on cognitive function and health-related quality of life in older diabetics.- Understanding the mechanisms of immune system aging: Immune system cell development and antibody repertoires.- How the aging process affects our immune system: mechanisms, consequences and perspectives for intervention.- A conflict of interpretations in gerontology.- Part II: What constitutes health and cognition in old age from a life-course perspective?.- Occupational gerontology - work-related determinants of old age health and functioning.- Social, behavioral, and contextual influences on cognitive function and decline over the life course.- Obesity, cognitive ageing, and dementia - the usefulness of longitudinal studies to understand the obesity paradox.- Models for predicting risk of dementia: Predictive accuracy and model complexity.- Lifestyle factors in the prevention of dementia: A life-course perspective.- Part III: Promoting health, cognition, and well-being in old age through care and interventions.- Understanding long-term care outcomes: the contribution of conventional and behavioural economics.- Alzheimer's disease, patients, and informal caregivers - patterns of care in France, Sweden, and Greece.- Implementation of a complex improvement program in aged care.- Can executive functions be trained in healthy older adults and in older adults with mild cognitive impairment?.- Part IV: How to ensure healthy and active aging through policy and practice.- A Master's degree in one's fifties: A way to stay active beyond the retirement age.- Perspectives on dynamic retirement and active ageing.- Social capital, mental well-being and loneliness in older people.- Reading meters: Vision, instrumentation and evaluation in voluntary post-license training for older drivers.- Social policies for old age: A story of shifting images and time lag.