Thirty-five years ago, Jerry Gurwitz was among the many first physicians in america to be credentialed as a geriatrician — a physician who focuses on the care of older adults. “I understood the demographic imperative and the problems facing older patients,” Gurwitz, 67 and chief of geriatric medicine on the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical […]
Roughly 40% of older Black adults live with a disability, in comparison with only one-third of older adults overall. Disability is one in all various disparities highlighted in a brand new study from the University of Michigan, which used data from the National Poll on Healthy Aging to look at the extent to which 50- […]
Recent research to be presented at this yr’s Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Hamburg, Germany (2-6 October) shows that use of low dose (100mg day by day) aspirin amongst older adults aged 65 years and older is related to a 15% lower risk of developing type 2 […]
The primary Americans over age 60 just began rolling up their sleeves to get vaccinated against respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, now that brand-new vaccines have began to arrive at pharmacies and clinics. Hundreds of thousands more older adults may do the identical in coming weeks and months, a brand new University of Michigan poll […]
Experts have identified a public health need in addition to strategic opportunities for the accelerated development of function-promoting therapies for older adults -; and present latest research on this topic in a supplemental issue of The Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences inspired by a March 2022 workshop convened by the […]