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Understanding Late-Life Anxiety: Symptoms and Treatment Options

Understanding Late-Life Anxiety: Symptoms and Treatment Options

Generations Now

Anxiety can cause a host of unpleasant symptoms, so it’s best caught and treated early.

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Aching and Baking: Why Older Adults with Chronic Illness Are Turning to Cannabis

Aching and Baking: Why Older Adults with Chronic Illness Are Turning to Cannabis

Generations Now

Cannabis may be more accessible, but elders should tread lightly due to medication interactions and other higher risks.

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A Menopause Primer

A Menopause Primer

Generations Today, On Menopause: Turning Around the Silence & Stigma

Laying out the facts about this complex process as they are now known, and potential treatments.

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Menopause: Why the Stigma?

Menopause: Why the Stigma?

Generations Today, On Menopause: Turning Around the Silence & Stigma

On busting the stigmatized relationship our culture has with menopause, and why it matters.

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Caregiving and the Menopause Experience

Caregiving and the Menopause Experience

Generations Today, On Menopause: Turning Around the Silence & Stigma

The odds of experiencing more severe menopause symptoms is directly related to the number of hours spent in the caregiving role.

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The ‘Menopausal Turn’ and the New Menopause Market

The ‘Menopausal Turn’ and the New Menopause Market

Generations Today, On Menopause: Turning Around the Silence & Stigma

Destigmatizing ‘the change’ or amplifying anxiety?

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Artivist Research Centers Menopause Across Countries and Cultures

Artivist Research Centers Menopause Across Countries and Cultures

Generations Today, On Menopause: Turning Around the Silence & Stigma

Using comic strips and body mapping from workers and migrants on menopause knowledge to enhance awareness.

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Good Reads on Menopause

Good Reads on Menopause

Generations Today, On Menopause: Turning Around the Silence & Stigma

Four books everyone should read and learn from.

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Meeting the Change

Meeting the Change

Generations Today, On Menopause: Turning Around the Silence & Stigma

An old woman speaks to the challenge of menopause.

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The Treat and Reduce Obesity Act: An Advocacy Agenda for Equitable Healthy Aging

The Treat and Reduce Obesity Act: An Advocacy Agenda for Equitable Healthy Aging

Generations Now

Connecting the prevention and treatment of obesity with broader goals for aging.

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Bridging the Gap: Improving Health Literacy in Older Adults

Bridging the Gap: Improving Health Literacy in Older Adults

Generations Now

Simple solutions can solve a complex issue and ensure older adults benefit from the best care possible.

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Framing Obesity as a Health Equity Issue for Older Adults

Framing Obesity as a Health Equity Issue for Older Adults

Generations Now

A personal and professional take on why obesity is incredibly challenging to combat.

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Data Speaks, But Stories Shout: The Future of Aging Policy

Data Speaks, But Stories Shout: The Future of Aging Policy

Generations Now

Online research tool The People Say features insights from elders to foster understanding of complex policy issues.

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Harnessing AI for Healthcare Transformation: The Present, Near Future, and Beyond

Harnessing AI for Healthcare Transformation: The Present, Near Future, and Beyond

AI and Aging: On Ethics, Health, and Innovation, Generations Journal

AI’s emerging role in empowering older adults, caregivers, and health systems.

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Targeting Neurodegenerative Diseases: AI’s Role in Research and Treatment

Targeting Neurodegenerative Diseases: AI’s Role in Research and Treatment

AI and Aging: On Ethics, Health, and Innovation, Generations Journal

AI is positioned to become a powerful ally in addressing age-related neurodegenerative conditions.

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The Future of Long-Term Care in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

The Future of Long-Term Care in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

AI and Aging: On Ethics, Health, and Innovation, Generations Journal

Facilities should quickly get up to speed to ensure AI is used well in long-term care, but also proceed with caution.

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AI as the Engine to Move Toward Integrative Health for Older Adults

AI as the Engine to Move Toward Integrative Health for Older Adults

AI and Aging: On Ethics, Health, and Innovation, Generations Journal

AI in older adult healthcare is poised to play a very positive role, but must be approached equitably.

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Wearables and Smart Homes: Sensing Technologies for Older Adult Care

Wearables and Smart Homes: Sensing Technologies for Older Adult Care

AI and Aging: On Ethics, Health, and Innovation, Generations Journal

As monitoring becomes more sophisticated, ideally it can free up caregivers’ time to better bond with older adults.

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Aging-in-Place Villages and the Promise of Artificial Intelligence

Aging-in-Place Villages and the Promise of Artificial Intelligence

AI and Aging: On Ethics, Health, and Innovation, Generations Journal

AI can provide many administrative functions to villages, making it easier for them to attract and retain members.

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We Know the Kids Are Not OK, But What About Older Men?

We Know the Kids Are Not OK, But What About Older Men?

Generations Now

Older men have a problem with lack of purpose, but multiple volunteer groups aim to fix it.

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