Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin d and the occurrence of late-life depressive mood in older men and women: The Pro.V.A Study

This study was conducted to examine the effect of calcium intake on the rise in serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] levels in response to supplemental vitamin D3. Fifty-two healthy older men and women were randomly assigned to take calcium (500 mg twice daily with meals) or placebo tablets for 90 d between October 1 and the end of March. All participants were placed on 800 IU/d (20 μg/d) vitamin D3. Serum 25(OH)D measurements were made at baseline and on d 30, 60, and 90. The mean baseline 25(OH)D values were 19.2 ± 6.4 ng/ml (47.9 ± 15.9 nmol/liter) in the calcium group and 19.6 ± 6.7 ng/ml (49.1 ± 16.7 nmol/liter) in the control group (P = 0.808). The difference in pattern of change in 25(OH)D was not statistically significant (group by time interaction, P = 0.651); the calcium group increased 6.5 ± 5.9 ng/ml (16.2 ± 14.8 nmol/liter; P < 0.001), and the control group increased 6.6 ± 7.0 ng/ml (16.6 ± 17.4 nmol/liter; P < 0.001). The 95% confidence interval for difference in mean increase, calcium vs. control, was −3.8 ± 3.5 ng/ml (−9.6, 8.7) nmol/liter. In older men and women, the level of calcium intake, within the range of 500-1500 mg/d, does not have an important effect on the rise in serum 25(OH)D that occurs in response to 800 IU (20 μg)/d vitamin D3.

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25-Hydroxyvitamin D is not Associated with Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in Older Men and Women

Calcified Tissue International ◽

10.1007/s00223-009-9238-6 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 84 (5) ◽

pp. 423-424 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Stefan Pilz ◽

Ronald M. A. Henry ◽

Marieke B. Snijder ◽

Rob M. van Dam ◽

Giel Nijpels ◽

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Keyword(s):

Intima Media Thickness ◽

Carotid Intima Media Thickness ◽

Older Men ◽

Men And Women ◽

Hydroxyvitamin D ◽

Media Thickness ◽

25 Hydroxyvitamin D ◽

Older Men And Women

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Intimacy and Ageing

10.1332/policypress/9781447326496.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Torbjörn Bildtgård ◽

Peter Öberg

Keyword(s):

New Technologies ◽

Late Life ◽

Later Life ◽

Older Men ◽

Intimate Relationship ◽

Western World ◽

Men And Women ◽

Avant Garde ◽

Ways Of Being ◽

Older Men And Women

To repartner in later life is increasingly common in large parts of the Western world. This book addresses the gap in knowledge about late life repartnering and provides a comprehensive map of the changing landscape of late life intimacy. The book examines the changing structural conditions of intimacy and ageing in late modernity. How do longer lives, changing norms and new technologies affect older people’s relationship careers, their attitudes to repartnering and the formation of new relationships? Which forms do these new unions take? What does a new intimate relationship offer older men and women and what are the consequences for social integration? What is the role and meaning of sex? By introducing a gains-perspective the book challenges stereotypes of old age as a period of loss and decline. It also challenges the image of older people as conservative, and instead present them as an avant-garde that often experiment with new ways of being together.

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Personal, behavioral, and perceived environmental factors associated with late-life depression in older men and women

Psychology Research and Behavior Management ◽

10.2147/prbm.s214524 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol Volume 12 ◽

pp. 641-650

Author(s):

Chien-Yu Lin ◽

Bohyeon Kim ◽

Yung Liao ◽

Jong-Hwan Park

Keyword(s):

Environmental Factors ◽

Late Life ◽

Older Men ◽

Late Life Depression ◽

Men And Women ◽

Factors Associated ◽

Older Men And Women

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Intra-trial mean 25(OH)D and PTH levels and risk of falling in older men and women in the Boston STOP IT trial

The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism ◽

10.1210/clinem/dgac012 ◽

2022 ◽

Author(s):

Bess Dawson-Hughes ◽

Jifan Wang ◽

Kathryn Barger ◽

Heike A Bischoff-Ferrari ◽

Christopher T Sempos ◽

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Keyword(s):

Fall Risk ◽

Minimal Risk ◽

Risk Of Falling ◽

Men And Women ◽

Healthy Older Adults ◽

Hydroxyvitamin D ◽

Increase Risk ◽

25 Hydroxyvitamin D ◽

Independent Association ◽

Older Men And Women

Abstract Context Supplementation with vitamin D has the potential to both reduce and increase risk of falling, and parathyroid hormone (PTH) may contribute to fall risk. Objective To assess the associations of intra-trial mean circulating levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] and PTH on incident falls in healthy older adults. Design Observational within a clinical trial. Setting The Bone Metabolism Laboratory at the USDA Nutrition Center at Tufts University. Participants 410 men and women age 65 years and older who participated in the 3-year Boston STOP IT trial to determine the effect of supplementation with 700 IU of vitamin D3 plus calcium on incident falls (secondary endpoint). Intra-trial exposures of 25(OH)D and PTH were calculated as the mean of biannual measures up to and including the first fall. Main outcome measures: incidence of first fall Results Intra-trial mean 25(OH)D was significantly associated with risk of falling in a U-shaped pattern; the range associated with minimal risk of falling was approximately 20-40 ng/ml. PTH was not significantly associated with risk of falling. Conclusions The findings highlight the importance of maintaining the circulating 25(OH)D level between 20 and 40 ng/ml, the range that is also recommended for bone health. At PTH levels within the normal range, there was no detectible independent association of PTH with fall risk.

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The Case of Thematic Tests Adapted to Older Adults

Rorschachiana Journal of the International Society for the Rorschach ◽

10.1027/1192-5604/a000015 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 32 (1) ◽

pp. 46-71 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Benoît Verdon

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Older Persons ◽

Older Men ◽

Elderly Persons ◽

Mental Processes ◽

Men And Women ◽

Projective Tests ◽

New Material ◽

Older Men And Women ◽

Latent Content

Since the 1950s, the growing interest of clinicians in using projective tests to study normal or pathological aging processes has led to the creation of several thematic tests for older adults. This development reflects their authors’ belief that the TAT is not suitable to the concerns and anxieties of elderly persons. The new material thus refers explicitly to situations related to age; it aims to enable older persons to express needs they cannot verbalize during consultations. The psychodynamic approach to thematic testing is based on the differentiation between the pictures’ manifest and latent content, eliciting responses linked to mental processes and issues the respondent is unaware of. The cards do not necessarily have to show aging characters to elicit identification: The situations shown in the pictures are linked to loss, rivalry, helplessness, and renunciation, all issues elderly respondents can identify with and that lead them to express their mental fragilities and resources. The article first explains the principles underlying four of these thematic tests, then develops several examples of stories told for card 3BM of the TAT, thus showing the effectiveness of this tool for the understanding and differentiation of loss-related issues facing older men and women.

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Clyde Warrior, 1939–1968

Kalfou A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies ◽

10.15367/kf.v2i1.63 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Tiffany Hale

Keyword(s):

Native Americans ◽

Older Men ◽

The United States ◽

Men And Women ◽

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ◽

Political Struggles ◽

Poor People's Campaign ◽

Organizational Leader ◽

Martin Luther King ◽

Older Men And Women

To identify Clyde Warrior as an intellectual subverts prevailing notions of intellectualism. We often think of intellectuals as older men and women whose major contributions are revealed late in life, once the passions of youth have been tempered by experience. Warrior was not this. People frequently imagine intellectuals as existing in isolation, insulated from the demands of regular folk. Warrior was not this either. He was a Ponca, born on the reservation and raised with the influence of his grandparents and community. He was also a renowned singer and powwow fancy dancer, as well as a college student, an organizational leader, a husband, and father of two daughters. Warrior’s political consciousness grew out of the deep connections he maintained to his rural Ponca roots, but he took care to educate himself about the problems affecting Native Americans across the United States as well as colonized peoples globally. As an Oklahoman, he was attuned to race relations in the South and empathized with the struggles of Africans and African Americans. His approach to indigenous political struggles was shaped and informed, for example, by his early and active participation with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign.

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