Beth Newcomb

Daily Trojan reported that the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology and the nonprofit Youth Movement Against Alzheimer’s launched YouthCare on Tuesday, in an effort to provide resources to patients with Alzheimer’s and dementia. “YouthCare is an accessible way for students to interact one-on-one with older adults to understand the reality to put a face to Alzheimer’s and to work towards a solution,” said Sarah Wong, the president of the USC Student Gerontology Association.

The Atlantic’s “CityLab” cited research by Caleb Finch of the USC Leonard Davis School, Jiu-Chiuan Chen of the Keck School of Medicine of USC and Constantinos Sioutas of the USC Viterbi School about the possible impact of pollution exposure on the development of dementia, especially among older women.

NPR quoted Jennifer Ailshire of the USC Leonard Davis School on whether Senator Dianne Feinstein’s age will impact her ability to serve in Congress.

Daily Trojan profiled Catherine Pérez, a Ph.D. candidate studying gerontology at the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, who is researching health disparities with regard to different social determinants. “I started to see there are these really vast differences in health outcomes,” Pérez said. “I became very interested and concerned because if we’re not in our optimal health how are we supposed to do anything? If you’re sick you can’t work; if you’re sick you can’t help take care of other people; if you’re sick you can’t take time for yourself to develop or find your life purpose.”

Smithsonian cited comments by Caleb Finch of the USC Leonard Davis School about the low mortality rate of naked mole rats.

National Post (Canada) cited comments by Caleb Finch of the USC Leonard Davis School about the low mortality rate of naked mole rats.

California Healthline quoted Donna Benton of the USC Leonard Davis School’s Family Caregiver Support Center on why it is easier to take paid family leave for a planned event, like the birth of a child, instead of a family member’s illness.

Science quoted USC University Professor Caleb Finch on the extraordinarily low mortality of naked mole rats. “At advanced ages, their mortality rate remains lower than any other mammal that has been documented,” Finch said.

MindBodyGreen published an excerpt from USC Leonard Davis School Professor Valter Longo’s forthcoming book, The Longevity Diet, on how nutrition affects longevity and what he terms the “five pillars of longevity.”