Two of this century's most significant public health challenges are climate change and
healthy aging. The future of humanity will be both warmer and older than it is today. Is it …

Objective Stress and stressful events are associated with poorer health; however, there are
multiple ways to conceptualize and measure stress and stress responses. One physiological …

Background Indices quantifying allostatic load (AL) and biological aging (BA) have
independently received widespread use in epidemiological literature. However, little …

Background Frailty is a common condition among older adults that results from aging-related
declines in multiple systems. Frailty increases older adults' vulnerability to negative health …

Background The processes that underlie aging may advance at different rates in different
individuals and an advanced biological age, relative to the chronological age, is associated …

Although stress and adversity are largely universal experiences, people exposed to greater
hardship are at increased risk for negative health consequences. Recent studies identify …

Alongside a marked increase in the population of older New Zealanders has been an
increase in tooth retention: more and more older adults now have at least some of their own …

Biological aging is the correlated decline of multi-organ system integrity central to the
etiology of many age-related diseases. A novel epigenetic measure of biological aging …

The trajectory of human aging varies widely from one individual to the next due to complex
interactions between the genome and the environment that influence the aging process …

Objectives Walking speed (WS) represents an objective measure of motor function and
health. We aimed to develop usual (UWS) and fast WS (FWS) norms for the general …