Prevention
14 August 2019
Sleep disorders and dementia
People spend a third of their lives sleeping, with sleep having a physical and cognitive repair function. As the years...
26 June 2019
Heat, especially associated with humidity, further increases the risk of mortality, and this is because when perspiration systems act more than the...
02 August 2016
This is a situation in which the person suffering from it becomes pale, begins to sweat cold and may even fade or reduce his or her level of...
22 December 2015
Falls are a major public health problem, given the physical, psychological and economic consequences they entail, being considered as a geriatric...
13 November 2015
In this summer time we have been able to read a report in the BMJ magazine where the main causes of accidental deaths in the United States are...
26 October 2015
On 18/09/2015 our colleagues from Matia Instituto Gerontológico. Elena del Barrio (Researcher) and Mayte Sancho (Scientific Director), presented the...
14 October 2015
In figures, the flu causes around 3,000 deaths and the loss of 60,000,000 working hours annually. It also causes 17.4% of temporary disabilities,...
08 September 2015
Heat, especially when associated with humidity, further increases the risk of mortality. In the last two summers and according to health sources,...
10 January 2014
The publication of the clinical practice guide on the management of hypercholesterolemia in November this year (1), by the American College of...
18 November 2013
Caring for the elderly has been characterised as a high-stress job. Assistants working in gerontological centres are constantly under emotional...