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Living at home as long as possible is preferred by a vast majority of adults over 50. But the real estate market and inflation has made doing so less of

Millions of older adults likely have minor memory issues that can later become dementia. But only a fraction of them are diagnosed early enough for new treatments to stand a chance.

Seniors continue to bear the brunt of deaths and hospitalizations, even as most of the nation abandons precautions: “Americans do not agree about the duty to protect others.”

They come from the Study to Examine Physicians’ Pandemic Stress, a project led by the UNC School of Medicine’s Mara Buchbinder.

Published On: November 11, 2022 November 11, 2022 Posted in Covid-19 Ethics Resource Center , Health and Health Care.

Front-line physicians who cared for COVID-19 patients during the first wave of the pandemic in New York City and New Orleans reported multiple factors that contributed to their occupational stress during this extraordinarily trying time in their careers.

Most Americans want to age in place, but that goal relies on housing affordability, accessibility, and proximity to services. A new project, led by Hastings Center research scholar Nancy Berlinger , will apply a “housing lens,” developed through empirical bioethics research, to age-focused policymaking and social innovation.

The Hastings Center is pleased to welcome the 2022-2023 Sadler Scholars, a select group of nine doctoral students with research relevant to bioethics who are from racial and ethnic communities underrepresented in this field in the United States. This is the second cohort of Sadler Scholars; the inaugural group were selected last year.

With the Delta variant rampaging, many parents of children under 12 are considering taking their kids in for a vaccine on the sly, though doctors say no.

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