Elena Rolandi

Reading in healthy aging: how attentional components drive age-related changes

Abstract Background Reading represents a cognitively engaging activity that supports the maintenance of cognitive functioning in older adults. Even though it has been extensively documented that reading is influenced by the aging process itself, the high-level cognitive mechanism...

Global Incidence of All-Cause Dementia

Importance Global dementia incidence estimates are limited by underrepresentation of low- and middle-income countries and heterogeneous analytic methods. Due to these limitations, true understanding of the global dementia landscape remains incomplete. Objective To identify dement...

Lifestyle and psychosocial protective factors drive healthy aging and modulate inflammatory and metabolic pathways

Lifestyle habits, cognitive reserve, and affective reserve (secure attachment, extraversion, psychological resilience) predict resilience in the oldest-old, though the underlying biological mechanisms remain unclear. This study explored relationships between these protective fact...