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KPCC’s AirTalk interviewed Donna Benton and Dean Pinchas Cohen on policies that could be implemented to assist elderly Americans who want to age at home. “As we live longer, depending on our health… we’re all going to need some form of help,” Benton said.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution featured research by Andrei Irimia on how Alzheimer’s disease and traumatic brain injury appear to affect the brain in similar ways. “The results may help health professionals to identify TBI victims who are at greater risk for Alzheimer’s disease,” he said.
U.S. News & World Report (via HealthDay) featured research by Andrei Irimia on how Alzheimer’s disease and traumatic brain injury appear to affect the brain in similar ways. “The results may help health professionals to identify TBI victims who are at greater risk for Alzheimer’s disease.”
Los Angeles Daily News quoted Eileen Crimmins of the USC Leonard Davis School on the inequality gap that emerges after age 65. “Geographic differentiation isn’t random: People who are poor, or who smoke or who are obese tend to be concentrated in certain places,” she said.