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By Carole Carson | Submitted to The Union My husband jokingly told me he thought maybe I was religious because I kept talking about the hereafter, as in, “What did I come in here after?” If, like me, you find yourself walking into a room wondering what you came for, be assured you are not alone. Common to individuals of any age, what we are experiencing is the “doorway effect.” Indeed, researchers found that walking through a doorway resets memory. Recent temporary memories are discarded, hence the puzzling problem of not remembering what we came into a room for. Ongoing research on h...

By Carole Carson | Submitted to The Union “What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?” asks S.J. Watson, author of the international bestseller “Before I Go to Sleep.” Memory is fundamental to our well-being. It links our past with the present, allowing us to draw on our experiences to help us today. Simultaneously, it provides continuity with what will be. And if you think about it, even creativity is driven by memory. Memory capabilities and deficits are inherited. Yet because a functioning memory is so critical to our welfare, we can still take steps to protect our inheri...

In seeking to lead longer and healthier lives, Americans should consider emulating the nation's Latino population, David Hayes-Bautista, a professor of medicine and director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, told participants at the conference. Latinos in the United States enjoy longer life expectancies and lower death rates from heart disease, cancer and other causes than non-Hispanic whites, said Hayes-Bautista, citing data from the National Center for Health Statistics. Hayes-Bautista, who's spent 40 years studying the health...

A recent Stanford conference looked at everything from business innovations to caregiving to new ways for Americans to work and thrive throughout the increasingly long lives they're now living.

Coronavirus Pandemic Exposes Imperative For American Universities To Find Ways To Better Serve Adult Learners New Report from the Longevity Project Makes Case for Investments in Lifelong Learning News provided by Share this article Share this article WASHINGTON, Dec. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The coronavirus pandemic has both revealed emerging challenges to the service model of American colleges and universities while also presenting a strong opportunity for them to serve adult learners, according to a new report from the Longevity Project entitled "New Horizons: American Universities and the...