LA Times published a column on the presidential debate featuring comments from Caroline Cicero. “Viewers surely noticed that President Biden did not command confidence in his performance,” Cicero said. “His blank stares left me wondering if his strategy was not to react and to stay stone-faced, so that he didn’t appear to be a grumpy old man.”
The USC Cheong and Mui Wong Endowed Research Fund supports the study of diseases of aging and ultimately how to prevent, diagnose and treat them.
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Developed by USC Leonard Davis School innovation and age-tech instructor, the tool is a groundbreaking resource designed to transform dementia care.
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The Optispan Podcast with Matt Kaeberlein featured an interview with Bérénice Benayoun about her work regarding sex differences in aging and health and the importance of studying ovarian aging. “[Ovarian aging] has huge impacts on brain health and cardiovascular health,” Benayoun said. “I’m so glad there’s now work being done and more and more people taking this into account because I think that has the potential to be transformative for women’s health during aging.”
The project will leverage technology innovations and cover critical topics such as long-term services, financial planning, advance directives, end-of-life care, home modifications, and workplace benefits.
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CalGrows grant-funded project focuses on the needs of care workers serving adults with Alzheimer’s disease.
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Event featured presentations from USC ONE Archives and the Los Angeles LGBT Center, paintings and ceramic art displays, and music by Mariachi Arco-Iris de Los Angeles.
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Medical Xpress covered a study led by Berenice Benayoun on how genes regulating transposons – also known as “jumping genes” – could be therapeutic targets for aging.
Transposons, genes that can relocate to different parts of the genome, are repressed earlier in life but get more active with age and are associated with age-related disease and decline.
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Twisted Sifter featured a story on research led by Valter Longo on how Laron syndrome patients appear to be protected against cardiovascular disease and age-related risks.
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