The study is the first of its kind in an urban population in the eastern part of Germany.
Researchers finds that older individuals showed significantly higher mean scores than the younger ones in the domain of cognitive restraint, but lower mean scores in disinhibition and hunger .
Results from the study suggest that a professional life enriched with work tasks stimulating verbal intelligence and executive functions may help to sustain a good cognitive functioning in old age.
Reserachers studied 202 randomly selected and cognitively intact older adults (65+ years) of the Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases Health Care Study.
The study finds that race is not a significant predictor of obesity with depression relative to normal weight without depression status, however, racial differences were observed among the non-depressed.
The study finds that obese nursing home residents had lower mortality compared with those of normal weight.
The study finds a significant interaction between mental disorder and self-rated mental health in predicting service use.
The study finds that emphasis on self-management to improve population health, coupled with advancing the quality of research to evaluate CDSM programs for adults with SMI, is critically needed.
The study in Hong Kong finds that domestic help may moderate the effect of stressors on spousal caregivers.
The study that finds that depression was significantly associated with pain.
