According to a study by researchers at Harvard, including Ashish Jha, Medicare patients in U.S. hospitals were less likely to die when their doctors were educated outside the U.S. The researchers expressed concern about the findings in light of the Trump...
The research summarized here was conducted by NIA-supported researchers and others examining how neighborhood characteristics impact older residents. It covers studies on neighborhood economic disadvantage, physical environment and walkability, food environment,...
The International Council of Nurses’ (ICN) 2017 Christiane Reimann Prize was awarded to Linda Aiken in March 2017. The ICN is a global federation of more than 130 national nurses associations, representing more than 16 million nurses. The honor, named for the...
The Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging (CEDA) has a new initiative: the Berkeley Forum on Aging and the Global Economy (Berkeley-AGE). It is dedicated to translating demographic research into usable insights on the challenges of a new era of population...
Recent research on US mortality trends over the past couple decades, including work by Anne Case and Angus Deaton, indicates that middle-aged white Americans, especially those without a high school diploma, have not experienced the same increasing longevity seen in...
