Lisa Napoli spoke to students in GERO 435, Women and Aging, and instructor Caroline Cicero on why young people should study aging for Gracefully, her podcast on aging topics.
The Huffington Post published an op-ed by USC Leonard Davis Distinguished Scholar in Residence Paul Irving, chair of the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging, on why leadership of cities’ mayors is critical as the aging population grows at an unprecedented rate across the United States and the world.
STAT highlighted research by Christian Pike of the USC Leonard Davis School finding hormone therapy greatly accelerated the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease in mice. “If you get rid of testosterone, it leads to an environment that’s really conducive to Alzheimer’s pathology,” he said.
Forbes quoted Valter Longo of the USC Leonard Davis School about the link between high-protein diets and increased mortality risks from cancer and diabetes.
Paul Irving, Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the University of Southern California Davis School of Gerontology and Chairman of the Center for the Future of Aging at the Milken Institute, and Laura Carstensen, Founding Director of the Stanford Center on Longevity, coauthored an op-ed for MarketWatch on why employers need to look beyond negative stereotypes regarding older employees and utilize older workers’ talents.