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Jenny Tung (CPHA) on the importance of a comparative perspective on when & how social status influences biological aging

Apr 13, 2021

In a recent study published in eLife, Jenny Tung  (Duke Center for Population Health and Aging) and  her collaborators  observe that high social status males male baboons in the wild  experience accelerated epigenetic aging. Aging, for virtually all life, is...

Great Smoky Mountains Study of Rural Aging launched by Dodge & Hotz (Duke)

Apr 12, 2021

Duke Center for Population Health and Aging researchers, Kenneth Dodge and V. Joseph Hotz, along with colleagues William Copeland, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, and Kathleen Cagney, Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago,  were recently...

Relative invisibility makes for uphill battle to get COVID vaccines for Americans with IDD: Scott Landes (CAPS)

Apr 12, 2021

People with intellectual and developmental disabilities like Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy and Autism often have underlying health conditions that make them more susceptible to COVID-19. Plus, many receive care in group living facilities, putting them at further risk....

Addressing global challenges for aging and dementia: NIA joins GEOHealth initiative

Apr 9, 2021

Damali MARTIN, Program Director, Division of Neuroscience (DN). and John PHILLIPS, Chief, Population and Social Processes Branch, Division of Behavioral and Social Research (DBSR) discuss NIA’s participation in GEOHealth. Climate change, air pollution, and...

Shippee & Beebe (LCC) Identifying Domains of Assisted Living Quality for Minnesota’s Assisted Living Report Card

Apr 1, 2021

Concerns around assisted living (AL) quality in Minnesota prompted passage of new legislation in 2019 and provided funding for the development of an Assisted Living Report Card. Life Course Center (LCC) members Tetyana Shippee and Timothy Beebe and colleagues...
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