How climate-resilient buildings could help protect elderly from heat
Engineer Amir Baniassadi researches how heat affects older people indoors, and how better building design could help protect them.
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Engineer Amir Baniassadi researches how heat affects older people indoors, and how better building design could help protect them.
New research from Hebrew SeniorLife finds that sleep can be most efficient and restful for older adults when nighttime bedroom ambient temperature ranges between 68 to 77 °F.
This simple, often neglected skill can pay huge dividends later in life.
New demographic shift driven by increases in life expectancy and "health span."
New demographic shift driven by increases in life expectancy, ‘health spa. At 81, Orlando Patterson, John Cowles Professor of Sociology, is as busy as ever. The Jamaica-born scholar of slavery and issues of race delivered a 340-page report on education reform in the island nation to Prime Minister Andrew Holness a month ago, as he gearedNew demographic shift driven by increases in life expectancy, ‘health spa. At 81, Orlando Patterson, John Cowles Professor of Sociology, is as busy as ever. The Jamaica-born scholar of slavery and issues of race delivered a 340-page report on education refo...