Share on Pinterest Researchers are developing a simple blood test that could assess your health span and lifespan. Image credit: Santi Nuñez/Stocksy. Intrinsic capacity is the sum of a person’s mental ...

Focusing on older adults’ mental and physical capacities could be more effective than disease management in promoting healthy aging, according to the results of a new study. Researchers from Peking ...

Imagine knowing not just how old you are—but how well you're aging. Scientists have developed a simple blood or saliva test that reveals your body's true age and predicts how long you might live.

Intrinsic Capacity, the sum of one's physical & mental capacity, is a healthy aging tool. The World Health Organization has proposed a new concept called intrinsic capacity. It refers to the sum of ...

A team of international researchers has developed a new biological age "clock" that estimates how well someone is aging, not just how "old" they or their various organs might be. The IC Clock, which ...

Researchers at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging have developed an epigenetic clock that could predict an individual’s intrinsic capacity score, a composite score that is a measure of healthy ...

This is the 76th instalment in a series on dementia, including the research into its causes and treatment, advice for carers, and stories of hope. A new approach to ageing developed in Australia could ...

Researchers published the study covered in this summary on Research Square as a preprint that has not yet been peer reviewed. Screening older adults with type 2 diabetes for impaired intrinsic ...

Intrinsic capacity is the sum of a person’s mental and physical capacities, and is a measure of aging. Maintaining physical and mental function is a cornerstone of healthy aging. Formerly, assessing ...