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Researchers from Yale University, and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center have been awarded a $12.4 million, five-year grant from the National Institute on Aging of the NIH to deploy their unique research models and expertise in a coordinated fashion to develop a novel course of gerontological research.
Doctor Sten Vermund, Dean of the Yale School of Public Health, talks about about how the U.S. Health establishment is responding to a major challenge and improving outcome among aging populations.
At the Yale School of Public Health Dean’s Lecture & Program on Aging Seminar on November 3, Sarah Szanton, dean of Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, told the virtual and in-person audience members that she has a promising solution.
Lynn and her husband Frank enrolled in a research study involving stress-reduction techniques in older adult couples.
YCCI’s renewed CTSA grant award allows Yale to continue its leadership in cutting-edge areas of research. One such novel initiative under the grant renewal is Diseases Across the Lifespan, which will explore the rising field of lifespan research — a new approach to examining the ways in which diseases that commonly strike adults have their roots in infancy and early childhood.
Connecticut Magazine’s 2017 “Top Docs” list includes 67 Yale Medicine physicians, who were selected based on a survey of their peers.
Becca Levy, professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, has done seminal work on the role of attitude towards aging and its impact on longevity. Dr. Levy's work is referenced in this LA Daily News article.
Negative early life experiences, such as attending segregated schools, contribute significantly to cognitive decline and cognition disparities between older Black and white Americans, according to a new study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.
Three Yale School of Medicine professors are among the winners of the American Federation for Aging Research New Investigators Awards in Aging and Biology Geroscience Research
A study by Becca Levy, PhD, professor of public health (social and behavioral sciences) and psychology, was referenced in a Washington Post story about better aging.
A Yale-led study finds that older adults who had contact with young children daily or every few days were six times more likely to carry the bacteria that causes pneumonia than older adults who had no contact with children.
Population aging constitutes a crucial driver for future heat- and cold-related deaths.
A new Yale study is the first to describe the short- and longer-term risk of hospital readmission for older persons who have had major surgery.
For the past five years, Yale School of Public Health Associate Professor Joan K. Monin has worked with LiveWell’s Empowering Partnerships Network (EPN) to bring YSPH students and postdocs together with people living with dementia to better understand their needs and advance research.
Miami University began Opening Minds Through Art, a program designed to foster intergenerational understanding, in 2007 and introduced an online version in 2022. Featuring YSM's Dr. Becca Levy.
The way we look at our own aging predicts what our future holds, as Becca Levy, a professor of public health at Yale, writes in her recent book, “Breaking the Age Code.”
Some greeting card makers want to banish ‘ageist’ messages—but humor defenders say teasing adds to the charm. A study by YSPH Professor Becca Levy found that “older individuals with more positive self-perceptions of aging, measured up to 23 years earlier, lived 7.5 years longer than those with less positive self-perceptions of aging.”
How internalizing outside ageism messages can be bad for your health and longevity. YSPH Professor Becca Levy is featured.
Yale School of Public Health Associate Professor Joan K. Monin discusses her research on caregiving relationships and health with WPKN's Chuck Wolfe.
Two deadlines are approaching to apply for 2024 Pilot Grants from the Yale SenNet Center and the Yale Pepper Center