Tag: Elderly
How for-profit nursing home regulators can use the powers they already...
Charlene Harrington, University of California, San Francisco
Governments at both state and federal levels have yet to fully wield...
Kick up your heels – ballroom dancing offers benefits to the...
Helena Blumen, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
Social Security benefits play key role in preventing older Americans from...
Sophie Mitra, Fordham University; Debra Brucker, University of New Hampshire, and Katie Jajtner, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Research Brief...
The FDA approved a new drug to treat Alzheimer’s, but Medicare...
Andrew Williams, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Medicare finalized its decision to restrict its coverage of Aduhelm, Biogen’s new...
Omicron makes booster shots more critical for medically vulnerable seniors
Laurie Archbald-Pannone, University of Virginia
People are understandably worn out, tired of thinking about COVID-19 and wanting to get...
Britney Spears gets free of father’s conservatorship – but many others...
Naomi Cahn, University of Virginia
Britney Spears finally got her wish: A judge suspended her dad as conservator, about...
Why fewer and fewer Americans are getting divorced
Tera R. Jordan, Iowa State University
Fewer and fewer Americans are getting divorced, with the rates falling 18% between 2008 and 2016.
Among American adults, there...
Social Security helped slash elderly poverty to 9.2 percent in the...
David W. Rasmussen, Florida State University
In 1959, more than a third of all elderly Americans lived in poverty. Slashing that number to under 10...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
