USA Today featured Jon Pynoos of the USC Leonard Davis School on adjustments to make at home to help prevent trips and falls. “Ladders in and of themselves are risky. Anything seniors use routinely should be put on special lower shelves. And, they could think about using items that aren’t as heavy as they age,” he said. This story originally in Reviewed.
Next Avenue quoted Kate Wilber of the USC Leonard Davis School on how to fix conservatorship in America. With proper estate planning documents in place, “If someone loses capacity, they have set up a mechanism to manage the estate,” she says. “Talk with family members about your wishes. Especially if you want a family member to act as your agent.”
The Wall Street Journal quoted Theresa Andrasfay of the USC Leonard Davis School on her research into the pandemic’s impact on life expectancy by race and ethnicity. One reason for the heavy toll among Hispanic people is that many who died were younger than those in other groups, she said.
NBC News Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV featured research by Mireille Jacobson of the USC Leonard Davis School and the USC Schaeffer Center on the racial and ethnic disparities in who is getting sick and dying from COVID-19. “Even among a population of Medicaid patients who are similarly economically disadvantaged, Latinos are shouldering an unfair burden of this deadly pandemic,” she said. Additional coverage was found on Univision Los Angeles affiliate KMEX-TV, Telemundo Los Angeles affiliate KVEA-TV, La Opinión, KNX 1070 AM, Spectrum News 1 and the Los Angeles Daily News.
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Next City (via The Conversation) featured commentary by Dana Goldman of the USC Schaeffer Center and Reginald Tucker-Seeley of the USC Leonard Davis School on how to fix inequalities in American health care. “Including patients of color in clinical trials to test new drugs is vital to learn how well new interventions work across the entire population,” they wrote.
Discover Magazine featured research by Andrei Irimia of the USC Leonard Davis School and the USC Viterbi School on the healthy aging of the indigenous Tsimane people in Bolivia. “The healthy diet of the Tsimane is likely protective of their brains and their hearts,” he said.
CNN featured research by Theresa Andrasfay of the USC Leonard Davis School and a colleague on how COVID-19 has impacted U.S. life expectancy, especially among Black and Latino populations. “This unprecedented change likely stems from social and economic inequities that are associated with both higher exposure to infection and higher fatality among those infected,” they wrote. Additional coverage was found in The Guardian, the New York Daily News and Axios.
USA Today featured Jessica Ho of the USC Leonard Davis School on life expectancy falling in the United States during the pandemic. “Going in, we already expected the U.S. was going to be hit quite harder, but the question was, how much does it put us back,” she said.
MarketWatch featured research by Andrei Irimia of the USC Leonard Davis School and the USC Viterbi School on the healthy aging of the indigenous Tsimane people in Bolivia. “They have the lowest incidence of heart disease of all the people’s known to science, and they seem to have much slower rates of brain atrophy with age,” he said.
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