Professors from some of this semester’s gerontology courses share how everyone can use their classroom lessons in their everyday lives.
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Asian Journal quoted USC Family Caregiver Support Center Director Donna Benton on the need to recognize caregivers as essential frontline workers. “Many times the care we have here in California the majority of care is done by us: family members and elder caregivers. We are an essential part of the health care system,” she said.
Consumer Reports quoted Cary Kreutzer in an article on how older adults can meet their protein needs. “While [protein drinks and enriched foods] may be high in protein, someone eating a predominantly plant-based diet would still need to be sure they were balancing protein sources to not be deficient in single amino acids that are considered essential,” she said.
During an Ethnic Media Services community conversation with ethnic media organized by Saint Paul AME Church in San Bernardino, Black Voice News, and California Black Media, community leaders and Black family caregivers discussed the importance of vaccines in helping keep themselves safe and able to care for their families. Family caregivers have not been considered essential workers, and therefore were ineligible to be first in line when Covid vaccines appeared on the scene in early 2021, said Donna Benton, director of the USC Family Caregiver Support Center and the Los Angeles Caregiver Resource Center. There are more than 4.5 million family caregivers in California alone, but Benton said they are largely invisible in the broader healthcare system. “Caregivers are saying ‘we want the masks.’ We need PPE. We need to be prioritized for boosters, and also for testing,’” she said.
Even when faced with larger structural risks, such as living in an area with high infection rates, people who avoid large gatherings and other risky behaviors are less likely to be diagnosed with COVID-19, say USC researchers.
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ScienceDaily highlighted an editorial coauthored by Mara Mather on how the locus coeruleus region of the brain, also known as the “blue spot,” helps focus attention on relevant information. “Due to its small size and its location deep in the brainstem, it was previously almost impossible to investigate the noradrenergic nucleus non-invasively in living humans. Fortunately, over the past years, animal research has revealed that fluctuations in pupil size are linked to the activity of the blue spot. Thus, our eyes can be regarded as a window to a brain region that long seemed inaccessible,” Mather said.
A recent analysis of nearly 200,000 researchers – roughly the top 2% of the world’s scientists – has shown several USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology faculty members to be among the most highly cited investigators on the planet.
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Tim Deal MSG is passionate about both gerontology and TV production. His path has taken him between the two. The sweet spot is where they intersect.
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USC Leonard Davis experts share tips to help keep loved ones safe and healthy during the season's celebrations.
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Hindustan Times feautred Valter Longo, who spoke during a session on the third day of the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit. He said that nutrition may be the key factor that determines whether or not we develop age-related diseases. “We can argue, based on over 100 years of research, that nutrition is by far the most powerful way to alter how fast we age, and also alter whether we will develop age-related disease like diabetes, cancer, cardiological and neurodegenerative diseases,” he said, adding that reversing ageing and controlling weight is crucial for saving lives not only from dozens of disease, but also from Covid-19.
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