SCIENMAG mentioned Valter Longo for his work looking at dietary strategies as part of cancer treatments. “We have been studying strategies that mimic fasting to fight cancer for years, with good results; we are now moving to the phase where oncologists are beginning to consider its use in combination with standard therapies,” he said. “The interesting thing is that it seems to work with very different cancers and in combination with different therapies. So it looks like a very promising approach.”
Joining forces with existing chapters at UCLA and UCI, the USC chapter focuses on student outreach to older adults, including those living in senior communities.
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Senior Housing News’ Transform podcast covered West Bay CEO Jim Biggs and COO Josh Johnson’s new management company, Momentum Senior Living, and mentioned their teaching work at USC. “We teach within the School of Gerontology,” Johnson said. “Our classes kind of blend some of the different requirements of each masters level degree. I teach branding and I teach sales and marketing.” Biggs added that he teaches trends in aging services as well as leadership and management at USC.
Health spoke to Mireille Jacobson on COVID boosters and why people should get them. “It’s not a strong belief, like ‘I’m not going to get boosted’ is my sense,” she said. “You definitely don’t have that kind of ease that you had at the beginning. And I just think a lot of people are done with it—a lot of people don’t go rush out and get their flu shot either, so I see it as a very similar thing.”
USA Today spoke with Theresa Andrasfay on Americans’ continued decrease in life expectancy due to COVID. “Everyone was hit in 2020 … 2020 was about policy response and 2021 becomes a story of vaccination, and the U.S. was not a success story,” she said.
Los Angeles Times featured Donna Benton on California’s seniors living in poverty. “Sometimes, people have enough where they don’t qualify for medical [needs] and they have to skim down to poverty and that’s emotionally difficult for them,” she said. “People are more likely to become depressed and anxious related to the lack of support that they can have around these long-term care services.”
Pilot grants support researchers looking into whether the composition of our diets and the amount of food we eat can impact heart and brain health as we age.
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Del Mar Times mentioned that 2018 alumnus Jonathan Schwartz, founder of Partner in Aging, is scheduled to discuss “Aging Well in the 21st Century” on October 25 at the Solana Beach Library.
Ryo Sanabria, assistant professor of gerontology, discussed their research on how cells respond to stress, how exposure to stress impacts aging, and how aging affects the ability to deal with stress.
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USC research led by Andrei Irimia shows how traumatic injuries increase the brain’s “biological age” and highlights the need for early monitoring.
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