The high-achieving sisters, both USC Presidential Scholars, eye careers in medicine while studying at USC Leonard Davis and USC Dornsife.
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KPCC-FM’s Air Talk interviewed Donna Benton of the USC Leonard Davis School about the challenges nursing home residents face as facilities try to keep them safe. “We’re certainly seeing more of a sense of hopelessness and helplessness, feelings of anxiety and particularly of isolation.”
Fox News featured research by Eileen Crimmins of the USC Leonard Davis School on dementia being the underlying cause in many American deaths. “These findings indicate that dementia represents a much more important factor in U.S. mortality than previously indicated by routine death records,” she said. Additional coverage was found in the New York Post.
U.S. death certificate data appears to vastly underestimate the true mortality burden of dementia and other cognitive impairment, according to a USC-led study.
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As online education and virtual classrooms slowly become the norm, students and teachers alike continue to tackle new challenges together.
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USC Leonard Davis School proposals receive funds to develop a mouse model of menopause and to study how the body’s microbiome affects reproductive function with age.
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Donna Benton, research associate professor at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, says national attention to the needs of family caregivers is long overdue.
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North Bay Business Journal noted that the USC Leonard Davis School received a five-year, $4.6 million award from the National Institute on Aging. The USC–Buck Nathan Shock Center will forge a deeper understanding of how and why aging processes cause disease in order to advance the translation of basic research on aging into effective preventions and therapies.
Professor Ed Schneider shines light on the importance of mindfulness and positive mental health for older adults.
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KPBS-FM quoted USC gerontology professor Donna Benton on loneliness in older adults. She said it’s not uncommon for someone to wake up one day and realize their peer group has dwindled rather suddenly. “We may have actually lost them completely to death. So if that happens, your network is smaller and it’s that much more difficult to develop new networks.”
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