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As she departs May 1 for the unenviable job of overseeing San Franciscos response to homelessness, Shireen McSpadden is leaving behind a nationally recognized legacy of tackling LGBTQ aging issues as the executive director of the citys Department of Disability and Aging Services. McSpadden, 57, who is bisexual and grew up in San Francisco, for the past five years oversaw an agency responsible for more than 70,000 seniors, adults with disabilities, caregivers, and veterans. Under her leadership ...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Dr. Megan Huisingh-Scheetz, winner of the 2021 Arti Hurria Memorial Award from the American Geriatrics Society and the Health in Aging Foundation view more  Credit: Megan Huisingh-Scheetz New York (April 26, 2021)--The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) and the AGS Health in Aging Foundation today conferred one of their newest honors on Megan Huisingh-Scheetz, MD, MPH, a geriatrician and epidemiologist with a unique commitment to leveraging new technology to improve the ...

Losing your sense of smell – one of the symptoms of Covid-19 – can put you off sex, a new study reveals.  US researchers found a link between a loss of smell, known as anosmia, and decreased sexual motivation and emotional satisfaction in older US adults.  The experts say the sense of smell plays a uniquely strong role in sexual motivation – and that both are intimately linked.  Researchers only looked at adults aged 65 and older, meaning the link could only get stronger as we grow ol...

An ongoing study suggests that older American adults are showing resilience and perseverance despite struggles with loneliness and isolation — that ‘there is survival.’

Since the pandemic’s descent, they have generally been viewed as among those at higher risk — older Americans, some of them medically vulnerable, figuring out how to navigate life in a COVID-saturated, increasingly isolated world.

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Jan 16, 2021 FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2021, file photo residents Ken Fishman, 81, left, and Esther Wallach, 82, right, hold hands as they wait in line for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the The Palace assisted living facility in Coral Gables, Fla. An ongoing study suggests that older American adults are showing resilience and perseverance despite struggles with loneliness and isolation during the pandemic. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File) By The Associated Press Since the pandemic’s desc...

It takes only one point of contact to get the virus. But it will take far more exposure to high-quality information to persuade vaccine skeptics.

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Since the pandemic’s descent, they have generally been viewed as among those at higher...