Greek Reporter featured research by Caleb Finch on how dementia appears to have been rarely seen in ancient Greece. “The ancient Greeks had very, very few—but we found them—mentions of something that would be like mild cognitive impairment,” he said.
AARP quoted Paul Irving in a report on how ageist stereotypes in online imagery are declining. “There’s much more attention being paid to older consumers in fashion, in hospitality, in health and other sectors,” he said. “The good news is things are moving — and I think moving in the right direction. If there’s bad news, it’s that it’s not moving fast enough.”
The second annual GLAM event drew more than 400 registrants from 29 institutions to present research and network with fellow scientists.
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Assistant Professor Michelle Keller and coauthor Utibe Essien of UCLA were recently invited to comment on new research regarding anti-coagulant use in older adults for JAMA Internal Medicine.
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Il Messaggero (Italy) featured Valter Longo in an article on diet and longevity. “I talk to centenarians, especially Italians, to understand how they reached their age. They explain to me what they have eaten all their lives and how much hard work they did in the fields. The word sedentary does not exist in their vocabulary,” he said.
Rafu Shimpo announced that the USC Leonard Davis School will present “Lifespan Through Kimono,” a show of the kimono collection of the Yamano Gakuen, Yamano Beauty College, and Yamano College of Aesthetics in Japan. The article noted that the show “celebrates the art of beautiful living through the wearing of kimono throughout the different stages of life in conjunction with the annual Geroscience Los Angeles Meeting (GLAM).”
Bozeman Daily Chronicle profiled alumna Lindsey Klebenow, who founded Heart to Heart Home Care LLC, a home health and memory care company that offers in-home care and adult day services. The article mentioned her master of science in gerontology degree from the USC Leonard Davis School and added that the school ranks as one of the top gerontology schools in the world.
Scientific American quoted Andrei Irimia in a story about a new study on different medical conditions tied to lifestyle choices and their effect on brain aging. The work is a “methodological tour de force” that could greatly advance researchers’ understanding of aging, says Irimia, who was not involved in the work. “Prior to this study, we knew that brain anatomy changes with aging and disease. But our ability to grasp this complex interaction was far more modest.”
Nature quoted Valter Longo in an article covering a new study on fasting and regeneration and cited his 2015 study that found a 45% reduction in abnormal cell and tissue growth in mice that fasted compared with animals that did not. Longo says that the results of the new study could help identify ways to perform coordinated cellular regeneration to repair damaged tissues, such as those in people with inflamed colons or Crohn’s disease.
MarketWatch quoted Pinchas Cohen in an article on how genetic tests to determine health risks may not be worth the money. “For the average person, genetic testing gives very limited additional value in identifying the risk of chronic disease,” Cohen said.
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