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The 2021 Gerontological Society of America Annual Scientific Meeting, taking place virtually this year, will feature symposia, posters and papers featuring expertise from USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology faculty, postdoctoral and student researchers. Below is a table listing USC Leonard Davis presenters; for more details and the full conference program, please visit the meeting website.
Discussant/Chair | First Authors | Co-authors | Date | Time | Presentation Title | Presentation Type |
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Qiao Wu, MIPM | Eileen Crimmins | 11/10/2021 | 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM PDT | Age Differences in Becoming COVID Long-Haulers and in Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 | Paper/Symposium | |
Stephanie P. Wladkowski | Susan Enguidanos | 11/10/2021 | 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM PDT | Challenges in Implementing an Explicit Protocol for Live Discharge From Hospice | Paper/Symposium | |
Tina K. Newsham | Karen Lincoln, Althea Pestine-Stevens, Natalie Moore-Bembry, Rona Karasik, Darren Liu | 11/10/2021 | 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM PDT | Teaching Anti-Racism in Gerontology: An Interactive Program of Recognition, Self-Work, Pedagogy, and Action | Paper/Symposium | |
Karen Lincoln | 11/10/2021 | 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM PDT | The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House: The Role of Diversity in Anti-Racist Education | Paper/Symposium | ||
Haena Lee | Jennifer Ailshire, Eileen Crimmins | 11/11/2021 | 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT | Neighborhood Characteristics and Accelerated Aging: Evidence From the Health and Retirement Study | Paper | |
Valeria Cardenas | Anna Rahman, Jenna Giulioni, Alexis Coulourides Kogan, Susan Enguidanos | 11/11/2021 | 7:00 AM – 8:30 AM PDT | Barriers to and Recommendations for Research Recruitment of Individuals Affected by Serious Illness | Paper/Symposium | |
Elizabeth S. Avent | Elizabeth S. Avent, Jeanine Yonashiro-Cho, Roberta Peterson, Laura Mosqueda, Zachary Gassoumis | 11/11/2021 | 7:00 AM – 8:30 AM PDT | Childhood Adversity Across the Lifespan: Assessing the Relationship Between ACEs and Subjective Cognitive Decline | Paper/Symposium | |
Alexis Coulourides Kogan | 11/11/2021 | 7:00 AM – 8:30 AM PDT | It’s Yet Another Thing: Barriers to and Recommendations for Physician Referrals to Home-Based Palliative Care | Paper/Symposium | ||
Stephanie Wladkowski | Susan Enguidanos, Alexis Coulourides Kogan, Valeria Cardenas | 11/11/2021 | 7:00 AM – 8:30 AM PDT | Patient, Caregiver, and Physician Barriers to Home-Based Palliative Care: Findings From a Terminated Study | Paper/Symposium | |
Valeria Cardenas | Anna Rahman, YUJUN J. ZHU, Susan Enguidanos | 11/11/2021 | 7:00 AM – 8:30 AM PDT | Reluctance to Accept Palliative Care and Recommendations for Improvement | Paper/Symposium | |
Susan Enguidanos | Susan Enguidanos, Anna Rahman, Sindy Lomeli | 11/11/2021 | 7:00 AM – 8:30 AM PDT | Trials and Tribulations: Palliative Care Trial Recruitment Approaches and Challenges | Paper/Symposium | |
Haley Gallo | 11/11/2021 | 7:00 AM – 8:30 AM PDT | Perceptions of the Government’s Response to the Pandemic: Voices From the COVID-19 Coping Study | Paper/Symposium | ||
Paul Nash | 11/11/2021 | 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM PDT | Failing to Plan Is Planning to Fail: Utilization of Advance Care Directives in Older Adults Living With HIV | Paper/Symposium | ||
Karen Lincoln, Sung Park, Faika Zanjani | 11/11/2021 | 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM PDT | Health Disparities in COVID-19: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice | Paper/Symposium | ||
Karen Lincoln | 11/11/2021 | 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM PDT | Racial and Age Group Disparities in the Effect of Social Distancing on Health Status | Paper/Symposium | ||
Paul Nash | 11/11/2021 | 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM PDT | Stigma Impacts Health Disparities and Inequities in LGBTQ and People of Color Aging With HIV | Paper/Symposium | ||
Molly Perkins | Paul Nash, Annie Nguyen, Mark Brennan-Ing | 11/11/2021 | 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM PDT | The Silent Majority: Aging With HIV | Paper/Symposium | |
Jeanine Yonashiro-Cho | Elizabeth S. Avent, Laura Mosqueda, Zachary Gassoumis | 11/11/2021 | 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT | Feasibility and Considerations for Remote Interviewing of Persons Living With Dementia: Adaptations for COVID-19 | Paper/Symposium | |
Haena Lee | Mark Lee, John Robert Warren | 11/12/2021 | 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM PDT | Childhood Lead Exposure and Cognitive Functioning Among Older Adults: Evidence From the Health and Retirement Study | Paper | |
Eric Klopack | Kandauda Wickrama | 11/12/2021 | 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM PDT | Stressful family contexts and health in divorced and married mothers | Paper | |
Andrew J. Petkus | Andrew J. Petkus, Xinhui Wang, Diana Younan, Daniel P. Beavers, Mark A. Espeland, Joshua Millstein, Margaret Gatz, Jiu-Chiuan Chen | 11/12/2021 | 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM PDT | Ambient Air Pollution and Increasing Depressive Symptoms in Older Women: The Mediating Role of The Prefrontal Cortex | Paper/Symposium | |
Yang Li, Jan E. Mutchler, Edward A. Miller, Jing Jian Xiao, Reginald Tucker-Seeley | 11/12/2021 | 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM PDT | Space, Context, Human Capital: A Macro-Micro Perspective on Social Environment and Financial Literacy in Later Life | Paper/Symposium | ||
Andrei Irimia | Alexander S. Maher, Kenneth A. Rostowsky, Nikhil N. Chaudhari, Nahian F. Chowdhury, Elliot B. Jacobs, David J. Robles, Ammar Dharani | 11/12/2021 | 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM PDT | Early Prediction of Cognitive Deficits After Traumatic Brain Injury Based on AD-Like Patterns of Neurodegeneration | Paper/Symposium | |
Kyra Thrush, Margarita Meer, Joseph Zullo, Andrei Irimia, Constanza Cortes | 11/12/2021 | 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM PDT | Multiscale Brain Aging in the Context of Neurodegeneration and Alzheimer's Disease | Paper/Symposium | ||
Eileen Crimmins | Omar Staben, Elizabeth Munoz, Jennifer Piazza, Margarita Osuna | 11/12/2021 | 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM PDT | Evaluating How and Why the Environmental Context Shapes the Course of Development Across the Adult Lifespan | Paper/Symposium | |
Jennifer Ailshire | Yazhen Yang, Ginevra Floridi, Peiyi Lu, Stephanie Wilson | 11/12/2021 | 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM PDT | Family and Aging in Cross-National Contexts | Paper/Symposium | |
Margarita Osuna | Rachel Z. Wilkie, Jennifer Ailshire | 11/12/2021 | 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM PDT | Impact of Housing and Neighborhood on Depression Among Older Adults in the Health and Retirement Study | Paper/Symposium | |
Eileen Crimmins | William Chopik | 11/12/2021 | 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM PDT | Margret M. and Paul B. Baltes Award Lecture: Optimism and Health: Resource or Delusion? | Paper/Symposium | |
Yeon Jin Choi | Eileen Crimmins, Jennifer Ailshire | 11/13/2021 | 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM PDT | Food Insecurity, Food Environments, and Disparities in Diet Quality and Obesity | Paper | |
Yeon Jin Choi | 11/13/2021 | 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT | Home and Community Features, Perceived Age-Friendliness, and Intention Toward Aging in Place | Paper | ||
Mateo Farina | 11/13/2021 | 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT | The Life course Origins of the Race Disparity in Cognitive Functioning in Brazil | Symposium | ||
Margarita Osuna | 11/13/2021 | 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT | Health and aging disparities among Latin American older adults: Findings from studies in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico | Symposium | ||
Margarita Osuna | Yujin Franco | Margarita Osuna, Jennifer Ailshire | 11/13/2021 | 7:00 AM – 8:30 AM PDT | The Relationship Between Place of Death and Immigrant Status | Paper/Symposium |
Seoyoun Kim | Hyunwoo Yoon, Yuri Jang | 11/13/2021 | 7:00 AM – 8:30 AM PDT | Longitudinal Effects of Coping Strategies on Mental Health of Older Adults Living Alone During the COVID-19 Pandemic | Paper/Symposium | |
Julie Overton | Jon Pynoos, Emily B. Nabors, Damon Terzaghi, Elizabeth Blair, Traci L. Wilson, Bernard A. Steinman, Suzanne R. Kunkel | 11/13/2021 | 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM PDT | Advancing State and Local Home Modification Practice and Policy: Findings From Aging Network Surveys | Paper/Symposium | |
Catherine Garcia, Jennifer Ailshire | 11/13/2021 | 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM PDT | Changes in Sociodemographic and Disease Prevalence Among Five Birth Cohorts of Older Latinos | Paper/Symposium | ||
Jennifer Ailshire | Yin Liu, Mengling Cheng, Jinmyoung Cho, Emma Nichols | 11/13/2021 | 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM PDT | Cross-National Perspectives on Health and Well-Being in Later Life | Paper/Symposium | |
Maria Aranda | Lauren Parker, Manka Nkimbeng, Elma Johnson | 11/13/2021 | 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM PDT | Cultural Adaptations to Recruitment Strategies and Community-Based Interventions for Dementia Caregivers | Paper/Symposium | |
Yeon Jin Choi | 11/13/2021 | 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM PDT | Food Insecurity, Food Environments, and Disparities in Diet Quality and Obesity | Paper/Symposium | ||
Tara L. Gruenewald | Catalina Zavala, Molli Grossman, Thalida Arpawong, Jennifer Manly, Susan Lapham, Margaret Gatz, Carol Prescott | 11/13/2021 | 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM PDT | Greater Adolescent Cognitive Ability Is Linked to Lower Risk of Cognitive Impairment in Later Life | Paper/Symposium | |
Yujin Franco | Joseph Saenz, Yuri Jang, Jessica Y. Ho | 11/13/2021 | 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM PDT | Differences in Self-Rated Memory by Race/Ethnicity | Paper/Symposium | |
Jeanine Yonashiro-Cho | Elizabeth S. Avent, Zachary Gassoumis, Laura Mosqueda | 11/13/2021 | 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM PDT | Exploring the Experiences of Persons Living With Dementia and Their Care Partners During the COVID-19 Pandemic | Paper/Symposium | |
YUJUN J. ZHU | Susan Enguidanos | 11/13/2021 | 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT | Advance Directive Completion and Hospital Out-of-Pocket Expenditures | Paper/Symposium | |
Margarita Osuna | Margarita Osuna, Sadaf Milani, Mateo Farina, Connor Sheehan, Elkin Garcia-Cifuentes | 11/13/2021 | 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT | Health and Aging Disparities Among Latin American Older Adults: Findings From Studies in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico | Paper/Symposium | |
Yeon Jin Choi | 11/13/2021 | 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT | Home and Community Features, Perceived Age-Friendliness, and Intention Toward Aging in Place | Paper/Symposium | ||
Margarita Osuna | Piedad Suarez, Jennifer Ailshire | 11/13/2021 | 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT | Oral health-related quality of life in Colombian Older Adults | Paper/Symposium | |
Joseph Saenz | On demand | On demand | Measurement Invariance of a Latent Dementia Index by Gender in the Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study | Poster | ||
Nicholas Resciniti | On demand | On demand | Are Drugs that Cause Dysbiosis Longitudinally Associated with Cognitive Scores, Cognitive Impairment, & Dementia? | Poster | ||
Nicholas Resciniti | On demand | On demand | Time-Varying Insomnia Symptoms and Incidence of Cognitive Impairment and Dementia among Older US Adults | Poster | ||
Theresa Andrasfay | On demand | On demand | Mismatch Between Physical Health and Job Demands among Older Workers by Full Retirement Age | Poster | ||
Yeon Jin Choi | On demand | On demand | Adverse Neighborhood Environments and Health Behaviors among Older Americans | Poster | ||
Yeon Jin Choi | On demand | On demand | Perceived Neighborhood Disorder, Social Cohesion, and Depressive Symptoms among Spousal Caregivers | Paper | ||
Eric Klopack | On demand | On demand | Adverse Childhood Experiences Associated with Epigenetic Age and Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults | Poster | ||
Eric Klopack | On demand | On demand | Epigenetic Signature of Childhood Adversity in Older Adults | Poster | ||
Erfei Zhao | On demand | On demand | Hypertension Diagnosis, Treatment, and Control among Older Chinese: Trends in the Hypertension Care Cascade | Poster | ||
Tongtong Li | Aileen Zhang, Ruotong Liu, Iris Chi | On demand | On demand | A Case Study On Anticipated End-of-Life Caregiving Among The Millennial American Born Chinese | Poster | |
Gillian Fennell | Elaine Wethington, M. Carrington Reid, Erica Sluys, Kelsey Donovan, Valeria Cardenas, Elizabeth Zelinski, Susan Enguidanos | On demand | On demand | Age Differences in the Use/Efficacy of Emotion Coping Strategies among Adults with Chronic Pain: A Scoping Review | Poster | |
David J. Robles | Ammar Dharani, Nikhil N. Chaudhari, Kenneth A. Rostowsky, Layal Wehbe, Michelle Y. Ha, Van Ngo, Andrei Irimia | On demand | On demand | Age, Sex, and Cerebral Microbleeds Affect White Matter Integrity Across Adulthood After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury | Poster | |
Mekiayla Singleton | On demand | On demand | Care Experiences and Expectations of Older Sexual Minority Adults | Poster | ||
Kelly A. Marnfeldt | On demand | On demand | Caregiving and COVID-19: Perspectives from a Care Coach | Poster | ||
Shania H. Wang | Nahian F. Chowdhury, Sean O. Mahoney, Andrei Irimia | On demand | On demand | Comparing Cortical Demyelination in Geriatric Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Alzheimer’s Disease | Poster | |
Narae Kim | Mireille Jacobson | On demand | On demand | Comparison of Catastrophic Out-of-Pocket Medical Expenditures in the US and South Korea | Poster | |
Maria P. Aranda | On demand | On demand | Focus Group Findings of Trial Participants in a Caregiver Psychosocial Intervention: Savvy Caregiver Program | Poster | ||
Eunyoung Choi | Hee Lee, Hyunjin Noh, Lewis Lee | On demand | On demand | Knowledge of Hospice Care among Korean American Immigrants in Deep South | Poster | |
Nan Sook Park | Yuri Jang, Soondool Chung, David A. Chiriboga, William E. Haley | On demand | On demand | Living/Eating Arrangement, Loneliness, and Mental Distress among Older Korean Immigrants: Gender Difference | Poster | |
Cassandra J. McGill | On demand | On demand | Protection against APOE4-associated aging phenotypes with a longevity-promoting intervention | Poster | ||
Andrei Irimia | Kenneth A. Rostowsky | On demand | On demand | Quantification of Similar Neurodegeneration Across Geriatric Concussions and Alzheimer’s Disease | Poster | |
Yuri Jang | Eunyoung Choi, Yujin Franco, Nan Sook Park, David A. Chiriboga, Miyong T. Kim | On demand | On demand | Racial and Ethnic Diversities in Cognitive Health Appraisals: Findings from the HCAP | Poster | |
Yujin Franco | Jessica Y. Ho | On demand | On demand | Rising Geographic Variation in Alzheimer's Disease Mortality | Poster | |
Anar Amgalan | Alexander S. Mayer, Michelle Y. Ha, Andrei Irimia | On demand | On demand | Sex and Age Differences in Default Mode Network Functional Correlation After Traumatic Brain Injury | Poster | |
Eunyoung Choi | Elizabeth Zelinski, Jennifer Ailshire | On demand | On demand | Subjective Aging in Context: Neighborhood Social Environment and Self-perceptions of Aging among Older Adults | Poster | |
Erik Blanco | On demand | On demand | The Effects of Social Support on the Psychological Well-Being of Older Parents: A Longitudinal Study | Poster | ||
Matthew C. Lohman | Nicholas Resciniti, Morgan Fuller, Joshua Sellner | On demand | On demand | Timeline of COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality among Residents and Staff of South Carolina Long-term Care Facilities | Poster | |
Mengzhao Yan | Kathleen Wilber, Jon Pynoos | On demand | On demand | Understanding Multidisciplinary-team Practice in Developing Home Assessment Tools: A Systematic Review | Poster | |
Nicholas Resciniti | On demand | On demand | Vaccine access shrinks disparities between long-term care and community rates of COVID-19 mortality. | Poster | ||
Andrei Irimia | Nahian F. Chowdhury, Shania H. Wang, Sean O. Mahoney, Van Ngo, Kenneth A. Rostowsky, Benjamin Hacker, Nikhil N. Chaudhari | On demand | On demand | Widespread Cortical Demyelination in Geriatric Cases of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and in Alzheimer’s Disease | Poster |
Assistant Professor of Gerontology Joseph Saenz joins Professor George Shannon to discuss his ongoing work on rural-urban differences in cognitive ability among older adults in Mexico, as well as whether certain personality factors make people resilient to the negative effects of early-life disadvantage.
On the focus of his work
I focus my research on looking at how it’s socioeconomic disadvantage throughout the life course relates with cognitive ability and late life. I’m interested in education. I’m interested in income, wealth and the resources that we have available to us throughout our lives and how this relates with better cognitive functioning, as well as lower dementia risk and the population of older adults of Latino origin here at the United States and also older adults in Mexico.
On demographics and differences between rural and urban populations in Mexico
One of the things that’s very important about the Mexican population is we’ve seen a lot of demographic changes over the past century. In addition to seeing rapid population aging with the share of the Mexican population aged 60 and over increasing rapidly. We’ve also seen a large urbanization process where people are going from rural areas to urban areas. For example, back in 1920, only about 70% of the Mexican population lived in rural areas, but by 2010, this had declined to only about 20%. So a lot of people have been going from rural areas to urban areas. And this is important because in Mexico we see a lot of differences of a lot of disparities between urban areas and rural areas.
Rural areas tend to be disadvantaged in several ways. They tend to have lower access to education. There’s fewer schools for people to go to. And the educational quality that people got, especially if you look at several decades ago was significantly lower quality than their urban counterparts. Also in rural areas, we tend to see higher rates of poverty and various measures of SES. And we also see that the rural population tends to have less access to healthcare. This as the gap between the rural and urban areas in terms of healthcare access has shrunk a little bit over the past couple of decades, but there’s still a disparity there. And so when you bring up the idea of the life course and where people live throughout life, I think this is especially important in Mexico, where we saw that rural to urban population shift, that many people who are living in urban areas now were living in rural areas as children.
On his research looking at where people live throughout their lives
In this more nuanced approach, what we see is that the people that had the lowest exposure to urban areas throughout life, those who lived in rural areas in early and late life, ended up doing the worst cognitively. And those who are doing the best are the people that lived in urban areas in early life and urban areas that late-life… And what we also see is that compared to people that stayed in rural areas throughout their entire lives, those who went from a rural to an urban area, also show advantages. So what it looks like we’re finding in our current studies is that both early life, urban-dwelling and late-life urban dwelling are related with better cognitive ability. And there is an advantage that comes from moving to an urban area throughout life.
On the negative impacts of indoor air pollution
And then the other reason that we could expect to see these differences between rural and urban areas is that in urban areas, we know that people have high exposure to air pollution from the outdoor environment. When we look at pictures, for instance, say in Mexico City, we see the smoggy skies and we see this high level of air pollution that people are breathing in urban areas. However, in rural areas in Mexico, a significant portion of the population relies on solid cooking fuels. So this could be wood and coal and Mexico is primarily coal if people are using solid fuels for cooking. And when people use these solid fuels for cooking, particularly inside the house, you can imagine how quickly the pollution builds up inside the home. So people in rural areas have greater exposure to air pollution inside the home from solid cooking fuels. And we know that that exposure to air pollution is associated with poor cognitive functioning. And in my own work, looking at the effects of indoor air pollution from solid cooking fuels, I find that people who cook with these solid cooking fuels tend to have lower cognitive functioning and also more rapid cognitive.
On the potential to improve outcomes
We’ve seen several large policy changes in Mexico in the past couple of decades that are aimed at improving access to healthcare and primarily in rural areas. And so improvement of access to healthcare, access to health insurance, and regularly seeing doctors are something that we could use to improve cognitive ability and cognitive outcomes of older adults in rural areas. And last on the topic of cooking fuels, we know that one of the challenges and one of the reasons that people in rural areas are more likely to use these solid fuels is because maybe there’s not the infrastructure to bring clean cooking fuels such as gas and electricity to more remote rural areas. Policy changes aimed at improving infrastructure to bring clean cooking fuels to rural areas and to educate people on how to cook with clean cooking fuels could be something very important to bridging these disparities that we see across rural and urban Mexico.
On the role of cognitive resilience and personality characteristics in overcoming the negative effects of early life disadvantage
What cognitive resilience is looking at is one’s ability to not show the negative effects of stress. So people who are cognitively resilient can experience stress but don’t show effects on cognitive functioning. They look like they’re doing okay, cognitively, even though they’re experiencing high levels of stress. In my work related to personality, I look at how personality characteristics are related with one’s cognitive resilience or one’s ability to overcome the negative effects of early life disadvantage. Early life disadvantage, being a stressor that I’m considering.
So the personality characteristics that I tend to look at include a locus of control, which is how strongly one feels that he or she has control over their lives. And people who have an internal locus of control tend to think that the things that happen to them are the results of their own work. That they’re the results of their own choices. Whereas people who have an external locus of control tend to believe it’s external influences that affect their life. And so they’re the ones that tend to believe that maybe the bad things or good things that happened to them throughout life are the example are, are the result of luck or of chance.
Now, the other personality characteristic that I look at is conscientiousness, which has one’s tendency to plan, one’s tendency to be goal-oriented and to delay gratification. And when we look at the locus of control and when we look at conscientiousness, both of these affect how people tend to cope with stressors. So in my work on personality, what I do is I look at how personality relates with one’s ability to overcome those effects. And we see that having an internal locus of control and having a conscientious personality are both independently related with one’s ability to overcome the effects of early life disadvantage.
On the importance of midlife research
We also see a lot of focus on early life, a lot of looking at early life SES, a lot of research looking at education and childhood, but I don’t think we see nearly enough work looking at mid-life. I think there’s a big gap in our understanding of the courses or the trajectories that people take throughout life. We don’t see enough about midlife. So I think this is another area that I’d like to go into more in terms of looking at midlife. So what are the specific occupations that people worked? What are the levels of cognitive stimulation and those activities also looking at midlife, we could also look at people’s marital histories when they got married, whether they were married multiple times. So I think there’s a lot of information out there on midlife that could be very valuable in predicting where people are going to be 10, 20 or 30 years down the road.
AARP quoted Paul Irving, chairman of the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging and distinguished scholar in residence at the USC Leonard Davis School, on how ageist stereotypes are still prevalent in advertisements.
“Advertising that stereotypes older adults and reinforces negative biases is not harmless. Imagine this ad portraying women, people of color or LGBTQ individuals in the same way. The response would be angry, and rightly so. It’s high time to call out ageism in advertising.”
Livestrong featured Instructional Associate Professor Cary Kreutzer on healthy breakfast options. “Just 3/4 cup of plain Greek yogurt has 18 grams of protein and is low in sugar. You can add nuts and seeds to that to contribute protein and fiber,” Kreutzer says.
NextAvenue featured Paul Irving, chairman of the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging and distinguished scholar in residence at the USC Leonard Davis School, on how a growing number of older adults prefer intergenerational and diverse living arrangements that foster health, positive attitudes and well-being to living in age-restricted communities.