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Columbia Mailman and American University of Beirut to Study Effect of Late Life Learning on Cognition and Aging

People don’t generally think of getting older as a sunny topic.

Sustained low wages are associated with significantly faster memory decline, according to a new study by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

Researchers have devised a new metric, the Health-Adjusted Dependency Ratio (HADR) as an alternative to the most commonly used aging metric, the Old-Age Dependency Ratio (OADR).