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With an ageing population and the increasing prevalence of age-related constraints, social tourism providers and policy-makers face significant challenges in providing holidays for seniors. Based on a large database from a research project in Wallonia (Belgium) implemented from 2015 till 2018, the study identifies the different types of holiday arrangements and activities associated with the benefits of holidays, largely in terms of wellbeing. It then examines whether they are age-related or not, and if so how, and how they can inform social tourism policies that target seniors. Data from the sample of 4144 respondents show a variety of age-related significant associations, with thresholds at retirement and after the age of 70. The study examines these associations in the context of various social theories of ageing and sets out the implications for social tourism policy-makers and providers. • Seniors' holiday practices and their implications for social tourism policies • Identification of senior holiday arrangements and activities associated with the benefits of holidays • Certain holiday arrangements and activities with thresholds at retirement and after the age of 70 • Confirmation of associations between well-being, retirement, and holidays • Empirical large-scale data about under-researched senior tourists contributing to developing social tourism policies [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To determine whether long-term treatment with cilazapril (CIL) may improve pulse pressure (PP), arterial compliance and ankle-arm systolic index (AAI) in patients with lower-extremity arterial disease (LEAD). Indeed, in both systolic hypertension and LEAD, the increase in pulse pressure has been attributed to a reduced compliance., Design and Methods: Thirteen patients (age: 65 +/- 5 yrs; AAI: 0.78 +/- 0.15; m +/- SD) were included in a double-blind randomized parallel study to compare the effects of a 6 month treatment with CIL (10 mg per day; n = 6) to those of placebo (PL; n = 7) Blood pressure, AAI and arterial compliance were determined at baseline (MO) and after 3 (M3) and 6 months (M6). Common carotid (CC) and common femoral (CF) artery compliances were noninvasively determined from pulsatile changes in arterial diameter (Wall Track System, Hoeks et al., 1990) and pressure (PP)., Results: Both groups were comparable at MO. Compared to PL, CIL significantly reduced PP (-22 +/- 4 vs -2 +/- 9 mmHg) and MAP (-16 +/- 11 vs -4 +/- 7 mmHg) and improved CC (+54 +/- 34 vs +5 +/- 21 mm2.mmHg-1.10(-3)) at M6. Weaker effects were observed at M3. No significant changes in AAI and CF compliance were observed., Conclusions: A direct effect of CIL on the large artery wall was suggested by 1) a greater reduction in PP than in MAP and 2) a disproportionately greater improvement in CC compliance compared with the reduction in distending pressure (MAP). These results indicate that long-term treatment with CIL may improve large artery function in patients with LEAD.