Despite spending more per capita on health care than citizens of any other country, Americans are less healthy and dying younger than their international peers. Ana Diez Roux, a member of the panel convened to study the issue by the National Research Council and the...
The Fisher Black Prize is awarded by the from the American Finance Association to a finance scholar under 40 whose work best exemplifies the goal of developing original research. Ulrike Malmendier won in 2013 for the originality of her work exploring the intersection...
In this story, Michael Hurd, lead author on the study under discussion, talks about the large and growing costs of dementia in the U.S. In addition to growing health care costs, Hurd says the costs for informal dementia care are probably much higher than for most...
This study is one of the most comprehensive yet to determine health care costs for dementia. Researchers used Heath and Retirement Study data to calculate the costs of direct care (nursing homes, Medicare, and out-of pocket) as well as informal/unpaid caregiving....
In this video, Antonucci, Carstensen, and Debra Umberson, who all contributed to USN&WR’s e-book, [“How to Live to 100,”](http://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/articles/2012/09/24/how-to-live-to-100) discusses the happiness factor. She...
