Addresses issues of active living, cognitive functioning and ageing. This book examines how physical activity could indirectly affect cognitive function by influencing mediators providing physical and mental resources for cognition. It seeks to identify and study sources of individual variations or [...]

The demographic and social structure of most industrialized and developing countries are changing rapidly as infant mortality is reduced and population life span has increased in dramatic ways. In particular, the oldest old (85+) population has grown and will continue to grow. This segment of the po[...]