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COVID-19 and the Future of Aging: Vaccines and Treatments
The pandemic’s impacts on disease prevention, science, and innovation
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s from the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging and PBS'
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COVID-19 and the Future of Aging: Prospects for Older Workers
An AARP executive on jobs, flexible work, and intergenerational unity
In this interview series from
the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging and PBS' Next Avenue, experts from the Center's
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Fixing the Food Supply Chain Could Prevent a Future, Even More Nightmarish Pandemic
There is a clear need, post-pandemic, for collaborative thinking on how to build immune resilience i
nto older cohorts to reduce the risks of viruses such as COVID-19—and, potentially worse, deadly bacterial infections., Fixing the food supply chain would go a long way to reducing pandemic risks in the future, while massively advancing healthy aging., The area I want to touch on briefly relates to the work on food I have been doing during lockdown—specifically, the zoonotic origin of pandemics.
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Financial Security in Retirement Requires Rethinking Needs
Effective financial planning requires clarity about individual circumstances and an appreciation of
the shifting longevity landscape. In the US, life expectancy at birth is approximately 79 years, according to the National Center for Health Statistics., It is a risky strategy to plan only for necessary retirement finances up to an ‘average’ life expectancy., The typical inputs to generic financial planning tools include:
Gender
Genetics/DNA
Smoking/alcohol/lifestyle habits
Weight
Exercise habits
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The Pandemic is Stress Testing Aging in Place
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The COVID-19 pandemic has been catastrophic in so many ways, not least for older people.,
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Exposing the Long-Standing Under-Investments in Senior Hunger and Isolation
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The pre-existing dual epidemics of social isolation and hunger in America can no longer be ignore
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We Must End Our Separate and Unequal System of Health Care
This story may shock you. A young Latinx woman accidentally overdosed on Tylenol. Her liver failed.
Soon she was in the emergency department of my hospital, Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital (MLKCH) in South Los Angeles., We need to acknowledge that our current health-care system is dysfunctional and results in unequal care for those with fewer resources., I’d like to say this is an uncommon story, but it isn’t. At MLKCH, our care managers spend a lot of time begging larger hospitals to accept patients who need higher levels of care than we can provide but that no one wants because of their insurance.
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How Community Health Organizations Can Fight Two Public Emergencies at the Same Time
Our country is currently in the midst of two public health emergencies. The first one is clear to al
l of us, as the COVID-19 pandemic has had a widespread impact across our nation like few other events in our history., Even though it is incredibly daunting to be dealing with two public health emergencies at the same time, it also provides us with a unique opportunity to develop solutions that can influence the health of our communities. , In order to solve both of these public health emergencies, we need to take immediate actions to help prevent the continued spread of COVID-19 in underserved communities and make longer-term changes that address social
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