Building strong health and career trajectories through translational research.

Translational research (TR) is the movement of fundamental scientific discoveries into healthcare settings and population health policy, and parallels the goals of DOHaD research. Unfortunately, there is little guidance on how to become a translational researcher. To understand the opinions of DOHaD trainees towards TR, we conducted a workshop at the DOHaD World Congress 2022. We found that trainees were enthusiastic for their work to have translational impact, and that they feel that holistic, multidisciplinary solutions may lead to more generalisable research. However, there lacks support for TR career pathways, which may stall the execution of the long-term vision of the DOHaD agenda. We put forward recommendations for trainees to clarify their purpose in pursuing TR and for seeking relevant people and patronages to support their training paths. For mentors, training institutions, and scientific societies, we recommend developing TR-specific programmes, and implementing training opportunities, networking events, and funding to support these endeavours.

Factores nutricionales, sociales, psicoafectivos y de salud de los adultos mayores / Nutritional, social and health factors of elderly people

El envejecimiento es un proceso dinámico, progresivo e irreversible en el que intervienen múltiples factores biológicos, psíquicos y sociales; una alta proporción de la sociedad ve en el envejecimiento, un proceso en el que las personas pierden su autonomía, independencia, la capacidad laboral e intelectual; convirtiéndose el adulto mayor en una carga para sus familias y la sociedad. En los últimos años este concepto está cambiando favorablemente, en parte por el deseo de las personas adultas y de los adultos mayores de tener un envejecimiento exitoso o activo como lo define la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), en el cual convergen las oportunidades de bienestar físico, social y mental que se han tenido durante toda la vida, y la aceptación del envejecimiento como una etapa más del proceso vital en la que debe tenerse una adecuada nutrición y actividad física, aspectos que general-mente son descuidados en esta etapa. El proceso de envejecimiento lo enfrentan todos los países del mundo, algunos con índices más elevados; aunque Colombia no presenta tales índices, se deben establecer estrategias que redunden en una buena calidad de vida de los adultos mayores.

The aging is a dynamic, progressive and irreversible process influenced bymany biological, physical and social factors. High proportion of the societysees in aging, a process in which people lose their autonomy, independence,and intellectual capacity, consequently elderly people become a burden fortheir families and for the society. During last years, this concept has beenchanging favorably in part because of desire of adults and elderly people ofhaving a successful and active aging as defined by the Word Health organization.This definition consist of physical, social and mental well-being opportunitiesof elderly stage as part of the vital process, with adequate nutritionand physical activity, aspects, that are usually neglected. This process is experienced by all countries in the world, some of them with higher rates. Although Colombia does not have those rates, strategies need be established inorder to improve the quality of life of this population.