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Unhealthy aging poses a global challenge with profound healthcare and socioeconomic implications. Slowing down the aging process offers a promising approach to reduce the burden of a number of age-related diseases, such as dementia, and promoting healthy longevity in the old population. In response to the challenge of the aging population and with a view to the future, Norway and the United Kingdom are fostering collaborations, supported by a "Money Follows Cooperation agreement" between the 2 nations. The inaugural Norway–UK joint meeting on aging and dementia gathered leading experts on aging and dementia from the 2 nations to share their latest discoveries in related fields. Since aging is an international challenge, and to foster collaborations, we also invited leading scholars from 11 additional countries to join this event. This report provides a summary of the conference, highlighting recent progress on molecular aging mechanisms, genetic risk factors, DNA damage and repair, mitophagy, autophagy, as well as progress on a series of clinical trials (eg, using NAD+ precursors). The meeting facilitated dialogue among policymakers, administrative leaders, researchers, and clinical experts, aiming to promote international research collaborations and to translate findings into clinical applications and interventions to advance healthy aging. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article tries to establish a new interpretation of Psalm 8,3, without undertaking any text‐changes. It shows that the combination of mouth and strength is a common figure in the HB, and in the expression “the mouth of babes and infants” the motif of the mouth as an organ of power is combined with the idea of the breath of life which the new‐born receives from God (Gen 2,7) as a power which enables them to overcome the forces of death that are always present at creation. This interpretation, together with the rest of the psalm, can be arranged in a common royal field of motifs where man serves as a vice‐royal only subordinated to God who is the real King. Finally some hints to a possible structure of the psalm is given. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]