Life expectancy soared over the last part of the 20th century as treatments for major diseases improved and infectious diseases were quelled by vaccines and better treatment. The most recent data, however, hint that life expectancy is no longer growing. And, according to a new study, we may spend more years sick than we did even a decade ago. In a fascinating paper published last week in the Journal of Gerontology, noted gerontologist Eileen Crimmins and her colleague Hiram Beltran-Sanchez, both of the University of Southern California, suggest that the goal of a long life marked by mostly healthy years may not be possible for most of humanity.
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The Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences just published some fascinating new work by two researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Lawrence Ganong, a member of the Sinclair School of Nursing, and Marilyn Coleman of the Department of Human Development and Family Studies have collaborated on a study that looks at stepchildren's obligations to stepparents who are acquired in later life. They studied the question of how much care and concern stepchildren owe their acquired stepparents as they age. The responsibilities of an adult child to an older stepparent or parent who has remarried late in life have not received a lot of study. This research asked what effect the quality of the relationships between the adult children and their acquired stepparents might have on any obligat...
Persistent problems with bathing increase an elderly person's risk of long-term nursing home admission by 77 percent and are the main reason why older people need nursing care at home, a study has found. The study, conducted by researchers with the Dorothy Adler Geriatric Assessment Center at the Yale University School of Medicine, was published in the August issue of the Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences.
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Question: Do identical twins or fraternal twins live longer? Both sets come from the same gene pool and are exposed to the same environment, more or less, so any difference would seem puzzling. Answer: Puzzling for sure, but going by recent reports, identicals average 82 years longevity, fraternals 80.5. The data come from the World War II Veterans Twins Registry, including some 12,000 IDs and 15,000 frats born between 1917 and 1927, says University of California-Berkeley biologist Malcolm Zaretsky in the Journal of Gerontology. He looked at various environmental factors and found that longevity was greater for identicals who communicated by phone or mail at least once a month; but for fraternals, it didn't seem to matter if they stayed in touch. One factor for the identical twins may b...
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