Led by octogenarians Sophia Loren, Anthony Hopkins and Bruce Dern, several new movies feature familiar older faces and tackle aging-related topics, from caregiving to living with dementia.
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The discovery that toxic stressors can cause errors in gene transcription opens new avenues of research on diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s and sheds light on the potential role of the “transcriptome” in aging.
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KPCC-FM featured Pinchas Cohen, dean of the USC Leonard Davis School, on how COVID-19 will change our views on aging and retirement. “We’re dealing with an incredible rise in the number of seniors who will require some sort of care. This is the result of tremendous success in making people live longer, but more and more people are spending their final years in some degree of disability. There’s got to be some solution,” he said.
2020 was one for the books at the USC Leonard Davis School as faculty, students and alumni came together over Zoom for a series of book club discussions exploring titles related to longevity and pandemics.
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U.S. News & World Report highlighted Valter Longo of the USC Leonard Davis School and his pioneering work with the fasting mimicking diet.
The New York Times quoted Paul Irving of the USC Leonard Davis School on the health benefits for older adults who volunteer. “The health benefits for older volunteers are mind-blowing,” he said. When older folks go in for physicals, he said, “in addition to taking blood and doing all the other things that the doctor does when he or she pushes and prods and pokes, the doctor should say to you, ‘So tell me about your volunteering.’”
USC research showed that people born during or just after the 1918 flu pandemic faced increased heart disease risk more than 60 years later. The legacy of the novel coronavirus could be worse.
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Incorporating social and behavioral factors alongside biological mechanisms is critical for improving aging research, says University Professor Eileen Crimmins.
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Over half of the people living with HIV in the USA are older adults, which brings a new set of challenges to fighting AIDS, says Paul Nash.
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More important than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic, USC experts teach students how to design and operate senior living facilities that promote public health.
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- More Than Just Genes: Many Factors Affect How Fast We Age
- A Half-Century of Vision: 50 Years of the USC Leonard Davis School
- Rapid Blood Pressure Fluctuations Linked to Early Signs of Brain Degeneration in Older Adults
- Hanson-Thorell Family Research Award Supports New Study to Improve Dementia Diagnosis for All
- New NIA-Funded Center to Help Older Adults Live Longer, Healthier Lives
