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Persistent Low Wages Linked to Faster Memory Decline in Later Life

August 3, 2022

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

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Aging and Healthy Longevity
Dean Fried Chairs Global Commission on Healthy Longevity

June 3, 2022

Ensuring that populations globally are actively engaged in society while living longer, healthier lives will require an all-of-society approach.

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Aging and Healthy Longevity
Asia and Africa Have Similar Aging Burden as the West

May 4, 2022

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).

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Aging and Healthy Longevity
Epidemiologists Develop State-of-the-Art Tool for Measuring Pace of Aging

January 18, 2022

Researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health have developed a blood test to measure the pace of biological aging.

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Aging and Healthy Longevity
Changes That Occur to the Aging Brain: What Happens When We Get Older

June 10, 2021

With life expectancy almost doubling over the last century and the aging population on the rise, our aging society is a public health issue.

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Aging and Healthy Longevity