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Today's 90-year-olds are surviving into very old age with better mental performance than ever before, Danish research suggests.
People born in 1915 scored higher in cognitive tests in their 90s compared with those born a decade earlier, according to a study in The Lancet.
Better living standards and intellectual stimulation may be key factors, experts say.
The number of people reaching very old age is on the rise globally.
In the US, for example, the number of people aged 90 or above has more than doubled in 30 years.
In Denmark, where the study took place, the chance of surviving into the 10th decade of life has gone up by about 30% each decade for people born in 1895, 1905 and 1915.
Continue reading the main storyEnd Quote Prof Tom Kirkwood Newcastle UniversityIt seems that among those born in 1915, cognitive function in advanced old age is measurably better than for those born in 1905, even when underlying changes like improved education are taken into account?
However, there has been little research on the quality of life that people reaching such an old age can look forward to.
The researchers, led by Prof Kaare Christensen, of the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, surveyed all Danes born in 1905 who were still alive and living in the country in 1998 (3,600 people, aged 92-93).
They assessed their physical strength, mental functioning, ability to carry out daily living tasks such as walking inside and outside, and any symptoms of depression.
Twelve years later, they repeated the study with Danes born in 1915 (2,509 people, aged 94-95).
The researchers found that men and women born in 1915 performed better than those born in 1905 in terms of cognitive ability and activities of daily living, even after correcting for changes like better education.
Prof Christensen and colleagues said: "Our results show that the Danish cohort born in 1915 had better survival and scored significantly better on both the cognitive tests and the activities of daily living scale than the cohort born in 1905, despite being two years older at the time of assessment.
"This finding suggests that more people are living to older ages with better overall functioning."
The research addresses the key question of whether living into very old age is accompanied by more years of poor health, or whether overall health at an advanced age is improving.
Improved educationCommenting on the study, Prof Tom Kirkwood, associate dean for ageing at Newcastle University, said the data from Denmark was "encouraging".
"It seems that among those born in 1915, cognitive function in advanced old age is measurably better than for those born in 1905, even when underlying changes like improved education are taken into account," he said.
In the UK, the most complete picture of health in advanced old age comes from the Newcastle 85+ study, which has been looking at people born in 1921.
The investigations will be repeated in those born a decade later, giving the chance to see if the Danish findings apply in other populations.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23252763#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
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Utility Justin Westhoff has copped a second dressing down after breaking Port Adelaide's cardinal rule by getting suspended for striking.
Livid coach Ken Hinkley says Westhoff put himself before the team in incurring a one-match AFL ban for belting Essendon's Cale Hooker.
"I won't cop that," Hinkley told reporters on Thursday.
"It's not something I want to have happen in our team.
"Players can live in their own moment for too long and hurt the side - that is not going to help.
"Westy got told that straight after the game and I told him again this morning.
"We miss him. And that hurts our team.
"An individual should never put himself in front of the team."
Westhoff will miss Saturday's home match against table-toppers Hawthorn, as Port try to keep their hold on eighth spot.
The game-breaker will be replaced by forward John Butcher, who after three goals in three games was dropped three weeks ago.
Defender Jasper Pittard has overcome a foot injury and will play against the Hawks, who remain ladder leaders despite last week's loss to Geelong.
"We can learn a lot from how Geelong went," Hinkley said.
"And you can learn a lot from other quarters that other sides have played on them too, not just the Geelong end result.
"There have been sides throughout the year that have caused Hawthorn some issues ... we have just got to look at that and drill right down there."
Hinkley was preparing his players for a scrap, given forecast rain and stiff winds for the Saturday afternoon fixture.
"The way we'll beat Hawthorn is we'll have to play four quarters of our absolute best football," he said.
"Most important in any game, you have got to be willing to commit your body to the contest.
"We need to bring pressure and we need to bring hardness to the contest and if we do that, we'll be in every game we play."
Source: http://wwos.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8688131
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Attorney General Eric Schneiderman?s office secured a guilty plea against Joseph A. Marvullo, a Saratoga County insurance agent who admitted to bilking an elderly Dutchess County couple out of more than $300,000 over an eight-year period.
Marvullo, a 64-year-old Greenfield resident who ran his agency out of Queensbury, is no stranger to state law enforcement: He was initially arraigned on a charge of grand larceny in 2010, when Gov. Andrew Cuomo was serving as AG. At that time, Marvullo was accused of offering to sell a Fort Ann couple annuity policies as high-yield investments; he took $26,100 in checks made payable directly to him and never purchased any annuity policies or returned the money when the couple demanded it back. Following his plea in that case, Marvullo?s insurance license was pulled by the state.
But that sum was pin money compared to what the AG?s office revealed on Thursday: The Dutchess County couple ? who met Marvullo through their church ? sold their own annuities and wrote Marvullo more than 80 checks totaling at least $308,652.71. None of it was used to buy insurance or investment products, the AG?s office said.
From the release:
When the victims sought to withdraw funds from the investments that Marvullo falsely claimed to have made on their behalf, he strung them along for years. He avoided meetings and calls while seeking to retain their trust and sympathy. He claimed various personal misfortunes, including health problems and marital troubles, and laced his emails with various religious references, typically signing them ?GOD BLESS-JOE.? He was caught when the victims got fed up with his excuses and reported him to the Attorney General?s office.
Marvullo pleaded pleaded guilty in Dutchess County Court to one count of grand larceny in the second degree, a felony.
?Today a financial predator is being held accountable for brazenly stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from an elderly couple,? Schneiderman said in a statement. ?My office will swiftly bring to justice those who abuse the trust of vulnerable New Yorkers to steal their life savings.?
Marvullo faces between two and 15 years in prison at his sentencing, scheduled for Sept. 10. He also agreed to pay more than $300,000 in restitution and will be barred from working ?in any consumer, insurance, or investment matters,? according to the AG?s office.
The AG?s office invites anyone else who thinks they might have been bilked by Marvullo to call their helpline at (800) 771-7755.
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Dan Bylsma, coach of the National Hockey League's Pittsburgh Penguins, was named head coach of the 2014 U.S. Olympic men's ice hockey team, USA Hockey announced on Saturday.
Bylsma, who won NHL coach of the year honors in 2011, steered the Penguins to the best record in the Eastern Conference during the 2012-13 season and to the conference finals before being swept by the Boston Bruins.
"We're thrilled to have Dan as coach of our men's Olympic team," USA Hockey president Ron DeGregorio said in a statement.
"He's rapidly established himself as one of the most prominent coaches in our country today and we know he'll help put us in the best position of achieving our ultimate goal of bringing home the gold medal."
The United States were runners-up to Canada on the ice at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, losing 3-2 in overtime on a gold-medal winning goal by Sidney Crosby, a member of Bylsma's Penguins team.
Bylsma, who has no international coaching experience, won the 2009 Stanley Cup with the Penguins and Crosby.
"It's an unbelievable honor to be selected to represent our country," Bylsma said. "Together with our coaching staff and management group, I will do everything I can to prepare our team to be in a position to win gold in Sochi."
Bylsma, who employs a flowing offensive style that could be suited to the international game, will be working closely with team general manager David Poile, the GM of the Nashville Predators, and Brian Burke, director of player personnel.
USA Hockey plans to conduct an orientation camp the last week of August at the Washington Capitals' practice facility for prospective players.
The Winter Olympics are scheduled for Feb 7-23 in Sochi, Russia.
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Source: http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Hockey/World/2013/06/29/20939581.html?cid=rsssportsslam!%20hockey
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A man harvests flowers on the Valleflor flower farm in Pifo, Ecuador, Saturday, June 29, 2013. A week after National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden began his flight across the globe, every passing day without him making progress toward Ecuadorean asylum makes the prospect look less likely. But the men who grow roses, asters and delphinia in the thin air of Ecuador's sun soaked highlands are deeply concerned that, whatever happens to Snowden, they may turn out to be the most unlikely collateral damage from the geopolitical wrangle over his fate. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
A man harvests flowers on the Valleflor flower farm in Pifo, Ecuador, Saturday, June 29, 2013. A week after National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden began his flight across the globe, every passing day without him making progress toward Ecuadorean asylum makes the prospect look less likely. But the men who grow roses, asters and delphinia in the thin air of Ecuador's sun soaked highlands are deeply concerned that, whatever happens to Snowden, they may turn out to be the most unlikely collateral damage from the geopolitical wrangle over his fate. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
Flowers grow on the Valleflor flower farm in Pifo, Ecuador, Saturday, June 29, 2013. A week after National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden began his flight across the globe, every passing day without him making progress toward Ecuadorean asylum makes the prospect look less likely. But the men who grow roses, asters and delphinia in the thin air of Ecuador's sun soaked highlands are deeply concerned that, whatever happens to Snowden, they may turn out to be the most unlikely collateral damage from the geopolitical wrangle over his fate. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, center, sings with a band before the start of his his weekly broadcast "Enlace Ciudadano," or "Citizen Link" in Manta, Ecuador, Saturday, June 29, 2013. While the Ecuadorean government appeared angry over U.S. threats of punishment if it accepts U.S. National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, there were also mixed signals about how eager it was to grant asylum. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, left, speaks during his weekly broadcast "Enlace Ciudadano," or "Citizen Link" in Manta, Ecuador, Saturday, June 29, 2013. While the Ecuadorean government appeared angry over U.S. threats of punishment if it accepts Edward Snowden, there were also mixed signals about how eager it was to grant asylum. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
Flowers grow in a greenhouse on the Valleflor flower farm in Pifo, Ecuador, Saturday, June 29, 2013. A week after National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden began his flight across the globe, every passing day without him making progress toward Ecuadorean asylum makes the prospect look less likely. But the men who grow roses, asters and delphinia in the thin air of Ecuador's sun soaked highlands are deeply concerned that, whatever happens to Snowden, they may turn out to be the most unlikely collateral damage from the geopolitical wrangle over his fate. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
PIFO, Ecuador (AP) ? Gino Descalzi used to fret about things like aphids, mildew and the high cost of shipping millions of roses a year from Ecuador to florists in the United States. These days he's worried about a 30-year-old American thought to be stuck in the transit area of the Moscow airport, and he can't believe it.
The Obama administration sent a thinly veiled economic threat to this South American country on Thursday when it indefinitely delayed a decision to eliminate tariffs on imports of roses worth about $250 million a year. The move created leverage over the leftist government seen as likeliest to grant National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden political asylum that would protect him from U.S. criminal charges.
A week after Snowden began his stuttering, surreal flight across the globe, every passing day without him making progress toward Ecuadorean asylum makes the prospect look less likely. But the men who grow roses, asters and delphinia in the thin air of Ecuador's sun-soaked highlands are deeply concerned that, whatever happens to Snowden, they may turn out to be the most unlikely collateral damage from the geopolitical wrangle over his fate.
"This totally changes the financial panorama for our businesses and seriously affects the structure of our markets," said Descalzi, whose 280 employees produce some 22 million roses a year. "We're just shocked that an event so far from the political and economic life of Ecuador has caused so much commotion and worry."
The rose benefit for Ecuador had been widely expected to be approved. Any delay, they say, puts it into uncomfortably uncertain territory.
Even if Snowden never touches Ecuadorean soil and the U.S. cuts the 6.8 percent tariff on Ecuadorean roses, along with tariffs on frozen broccoli and canned artichokes, Ecuadorean flower growers are worried that the brouhaha has damaged Ecuador in the eyes of the United States, hurting its reputation for stability and reliability among the buyers who must decide between flowers from Ecuador and the already tariff-free blooms from its nearby market-dominant competitor, Colombia.
"This is not a mathematical equation," said Benito Jaramillo, the head of the Ecuadorean flower-growers' association. The graduate of Texas A&M and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign employs hundreds of people growing "summer flowers" ? a category of less-flashy blooms like hydrangeas and asters ? on his farm about a half-hour from the capital, Quito.
"The point is that there are a lot of other factors that damage our industry's image and competitiveness in the midterm," Jaramillo said.
Flowers are serious business in Ecuador.
The industry says it employs about 50,000 people on about 550 farms across the country and is indirectly responsible for 110,000 jobs, putting it after only oil, seafood and bananas in the ranks of the country's biggest exporters. It boasts that the long days, rich sunlight and cool nights of the Andean highlands mean the heads of flowers, particularly roses, grow fuller and richer than those from Colombia, which they scoff at as more suitable for grocery stores than florists.
Industry representatives spent around a year campaigning hard in Washington for the inclusion of cut roses under the Generalized System of Preferences, or GSP, a mechanism meant to encourage development in lower-income countries. A broader trade pact that covers a wide range of Ecuadorean products, the Andean Trade Preference Act, had been widely expected to expire next month. That now seems certain, not least because Ecuador declared Thursday that it was preemptively rejecting it.
Now, the flower industry has turned its focus to its own government, which it desperately hopes won't offer asylum to Snowden.
A small group of U.S. senators explicitly threatened trade retaliation if Ecuador harbors Snowden. And on Saturday, Vice President Joe Biden asked Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa to turn down any asylum request.
"We can't put the interests of 14 million Ecuadoreans at risk because of a 29-year-old hacker whom we don't even know," Descalzi said. "This gentleman doesn't mean anything to us."
The business impacts of the Snowden affair have infuriated Ecuador's main business groups, who accuse the government of putting ideology before commerce.
The decision to renounce the Andean Trade deal was "permeated by political and ideological motives," said Roberto Aspiazu, chairman of a coalition of Ecuador's largest industries. The country's business sector is calling on the government to manage the relationship with the United States "with the utmost care," he said.
The government said it planned to compensate business damaged by the loss of U.S. tariff benefits and has painted its decision in terms of the nation's sovereignty versus U.S. threats.
However, Correa told The Associated Press in an interview Sunday that his government was not thinking about renouncing the GSP trade benefits that would affect rose exports, along with a host of other Ecuadorean products, because those benefits had not been subject to U.S. threats.
"If they threaten us, we'll take the appropriate decisions. Ecuador doesn't accept threats from anyone, we don't allow blackmail and our sovereignty isn't for sale," Correa said.
When asked how he feels about the whole situation, Jaramillo, the head of the flower association, thought before responding with a single word: "frustrated."
"One isolated issue shouldn't create so much damage," he said.
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AP writer Gonzalo Solano contributed to this report.
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