How can we help adults gain a stronger sense of purpose? Mark Oppenheimer, in an article entitled Power of Purpose-Driven Schools, provides an important answer. Today, many school focus on providing students with the basic technical and social skills necessary to pursue jobs and careers. However, following a purpose-driven life/career, requires
Several years ago, as part of a class I taught on the Psychology of Aging, I asked students to “see their future selves” on a number of dimensions to stat a conversation. For instance: how long do you expect to live? When do you to expect to retire? What do
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Researchers of the Integrated Systems Engineering Group of the University of Malaga (UMA) have designed a telepresence robot that enables people suffering from COVID-19 to talk to their loved ones.
Although this scientific team has been working in social robotics for more than a decade within the ROSI project, they have provided this new design with additional functions in order to adapt it to the pandemic needs, with the aim of facilitating the work of professionals in nursing homes and hospitals. We have enabled people that are isolated in a room to have a video call with relatives and friends without risks and regardless of their ability to use new technologies , says one of the main researchers of this project, Juan Pedro Bandera, Professor of the School of Telecommunications.
Using laboratory-grown roundworms as well as human and mouse eye tissue, University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers have identified a new potential mechanism for age-related macular degeneration the leading cause of blindness among older adults. The UMSOM researchers say that the findings suggest a new and distinct cause that is different from the previous model of a problematic immune system, showing that the structural organization of the eye s light-detecting cells may be affected by the disease.