Beth Newcomb

KABC-TV and USC Annenberg Media covered celebrations hosted by the USC Leonard Davis School for International Day of Older Persons, which included music and dance performances, food, crafts, and a screening of the film The Farewell.

Forbes quoted Jon Pynoos of the USC Leonard Davis School on how minimalism can benefit older adults with dementia.

KPCC-FM featured research from Caleb Finch of the USC Leonard Davis School on how environmental factors interact with genetic factors to increase or reduce risk for Alzheimer’s disease. “Nobody had pulled this together, and that’s what our contribution is: to get people to recognize and begin to think of environmental factors, many of which can be improved in lifestyle, to reduce the genetic risk of Alzheimer’s,” he said.

NBC Los Angeles featured research from Caleb Finch of the USC Leonard Davis School on how environmental factors interact with genetic factors to increase or reduce risk for Alzheimer’s disease. “We propose a new approach to comprehensively assess the multiple brain-body interactions that contribute to Alzheimer’s disease,” he said. Additional coverage was found on Telemundo Los Angeles, MyNewsLA and KNX 1070 AM.

Vice quoted Elizabeth Zelinski of the USC Leonard Davis School on the correlation between age and mental skills, and how cognition should be assessed along with other routine health matters during presidential physicals.