Insights from a new study on early adulthood depression.
Do Depressive Symptoms Across the Lifespan Affect Dementia Risk?
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Strengthening Compassion and Interprofessional Collaboration
New resources to help healthcare professionals dealing with burnout.
Storytelling in Parkinson’s Disease Vital to Non-motor Symptom ID and Management
‘Fear and stigma can be highly disabling and make people with Parkinson’s feel shunned.’
Sages & Seekers Defeats Ageism via Friendship
Busting stereotypes through the lost art of quiet conversation.
Apply Now to Be a Health and Aging Policy Fellow!
‘The program aims to create a cadre of leaders who will serve as change agents in health and aging policy.’
Using the Holiday Season to Address Persistent Malnutrition
But don’t stop when the holidays are over.
Nutrition-focused Quality Improvement Program Yields Benefits
With such a program it takes only a few minutes to assess malnutrition risk.
The Habitual Gaze
On the battle of eyes, or how and when parents become someone to look over, in healthcare settings.
Let Down by a Broken Retirement System, Older Americans Rely on Family for Support
Nearly one in five adults provides unpaid care to an adult ages 50 or older.
Building Community with African Immigrant Older Adults to Improve Function
Studies are necessary to help develop health interventions and improve clinical practice for this population.
Challenges in Stroke Care and Potential Preventive Practices
Preventing stroke and caring for those who’ve had strokes should involve public health, clinical care and the community.
It All Starts With Clinical Trials: The NIA’s Dr. Patricia Jones on How to Make Them Inclusive
Clinical trials should include diverse study participants because such studies are intended to benefit the public and improve the quality of everyone’s life.
Meeting the Shadows of Age
Exploring a realm of aging that is unexplored territory: the unconscious.
On Menopause, Ageism, Sexism and Reimagining This Life Phase
‘I was interested in writing in a more raw and real way about what happens to the female body as it’s aging.’
A Q&A With Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford on Treating the Disease Obesity
I realized we have the tools in medicine to have a major impact on weight status.
Housing Plus: Hebrew SeniorLife’s Embedded Prevention Pilot Reaps Rewards
The nonprofit provides services to about 3,000 older adults in the Boston area.
Are We Headed Toward a More Comprehensive Hearing Care System?
Over-the-counter hearing aids and Medicare expansion of hearing care may move the U.S. in this direction.
The Gift of Having a Later Life
Aging is more than the social sciences have led us to believe.
Protecting Heroes from Exposures to Toxins that Accelerate Aging
Aging-related diseases can take decades to develop.
The Bottom Line: How Working While Caring Impacts our Nation’s Economy
Experience in family caregiving exposes gaps in U.S. supports.