Stanford’s Laura Carstensen is now a member of the National Academy of Medicine, elected along with 78 others “who have made major contributions to the advancement of the medical sciences, health care, and public health.” Election to the Academy is...
To give researchers in aging more time to consider federal funding options, the NIA will now publish concepts approved by the National Advisory Council on Aging (NACA) *before* any related Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is released. Although these concepts are...
Using data from the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN), Arun Karlamangla, Gail Greendale and their UCLA colleagues found evidence of cognitive decline in processing speed and memory among midlife women (average age=54). Karlamangla said he thinks...
This new volume by the Health and Retirement Study captures key findings from some of the vast number of studies using HRS data over the past 10 of its 25-year history. Areas covered include: working longer, the aging brain, preparing for retirement, comparing...
Daniel Belsky is lead author on a PNAS paper introducing 18 measures that, in combination, are believed to determine a person’s biological age. Using data from the Dunedin Study, a longitudinal study of about 1,000 New Zealanders born in 1972-73 in the same...