Vicki Freedman Finds Women’s Longer Life Expectancy Means More Years With Disability
March 22, 2016
According to a new study by Vicki Freedman, Douglas Wolf and Brenda Spillman, while both men and women gained in life expectancy, women spend more years after the age of 65 with a disability than do men. The reason are unclear. They could include unequal progress in treating women’s health...
Monitoring the Future Study Finds Declining Alcohol Consumption Among Teens and College Students
March 22, 2016
Nick Howe used the most recent Monitoring the Future report in a piece for Forbes . The MTF report finds that teen alcohol consumption is at its lowest level since 1975 (the year of the first survey), and consumption among college students has also declined in the last three decades.
Health and Retirement Study Genetic Data Now Available
March 10, 2016
In 2009 the NIA began receiving funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to expand research in aging and age-related cognitive change. One many projects supported by these funds was the genotyping of DNA samples collected from almost 20,000 participants in the Health and Retirement...
“Consumer confidence has remained largely unchanged…” – Richard Curtin
February 3, 2016
“Consumer confidence has remained largely unchanged, as the January reading was just 0.6 percent below last month’s level. The small downward revisions were due to stock market declines that were reflected in the erosion of household wealth, as well as weakened prospects for the...