Demand for home health aides is soaring. So why are they still so undervalued?
On most days around 2 p.m., home health aide Duane Crichlow can be found in an apartment in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, playing catch with his client — a man in …
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Opinion: Make 2023 the year of prioritizing women’s health
Thirty years ago this week, the bill that became the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993 — a game changer for research on women’s health — was introduced …
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Brains of Black Americans age faster, study finds, with racial stressors a likely factor
The brains of Black adults in the U.S. age more quickly than those of white and Hispanic adults, showing features linked to Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias as early as …
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Opinion: Listen: Home health care is facing devastating ‘clawbacks’
Terry Wilcox’s grandmother lived in an isolated house at the top of a hill overlooking the magical mountains and valleys of the Ozarks until, as she tells it, “the day …
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Opinion: Medicare’s cuts to home health are a step in the wrong direction
My grandmother lived at the top of a hill overlooking the magical mountains and valleys of the Ozarks until the day we literally had to drag her off of it. …
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Opinion: Certified nursing assistants do important work. They deserve to be paid a living wage for it
In mid-April 2020, as Covid-19 shutdowns and lockdowns were being put in place across the U.S., my grandmother’s health started to decline. With so many unknowns, the assisted living facility …
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Zapping the brain with electricity shown to boost older people’s short- and long-term memory
Sending weak electrical current into the brain for 20 minutes a day for four days in a row reversed declines in working and long-term memory that come with aging, scientists …
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As billionaires race to fund anti-aging projects, a much-discussed trial goes overlooked
This story has been excerpted from the STAT Report “The race for longevity: How scientists — and industry — are seeking to extend healthy lives.” Beating back the diseases of …
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Eggs can survive decades without signs of aging. Now, scientists may know why
In a high-stakes evolutionary gambit, female mammals are born with a finite supply of immature eggs. Propagating future generations depends on this reserve of pre-egg cells, or “primordial oocytes,” staying …
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