Livestrong featured Instructional Associate Professor Cary Kreutzer on healthy breakfast options. “Just 3/4 cup of plain Greek yogurt has 18 grams of protein and is low in sugar. You can add nuts and seeds to that to contribute protein and fiber,” Kreutzer says.
AARP quoted Paul Irving, chairman of the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging and distinguished scholar in residence at the USC Leonard Davis School, on how ageist stereotypes are still prevalent in advertisements.
“Advertising that stereotypes older adults and reinforces negative biases is not harmless. Imagine this ad portraying women, people of color or LGBTQ individuals in the same way. The response would be angry, and rightly so. It’s high time to call out ageism in advertising.”
NextAvenue featured Paul Irving, chairman of the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging and distinguished scholar in residence at the USC Leonard Davis School, on how a growing number of older adults prefer intergenerational and diverse living arrangements that foster health, positive attitudes and well-being to living in age-restricted communities.
The Washington Post quoted Caleb Finch in a story on how tens of thousands of police, firefighters, construction workers, and others who worked amid the ruins of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan following 9/11 are experiencing cognitive decline. “There’s a large amount of uncertainty, and the data is just in the beginning of being collected,” he says. “But everyone there I talked with said this is something we ought to look at very seriously. It’s clear that this is a lingering brain insult, 20 years later.”
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