Screening for dementia, Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive impairment is something most older adults want for themselves or feel others their age should have access to.

The rapid rise in telehealth and telemedicine use during the pandemic helped increase access to care for people in rural areas especially those with mental health provider shortages.

Physicians, nurse practitioners, social workers, spiritual care professionals, clinical pharmacists and other specialized providers all work together to create a unified palliative care team at Michigan Medicine.

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Use and confidence are lower in those with lower incomes or lower levels of physical or mental health

Research finds higher blood sugar linked to faster loss of brain power in stroke survivors.

Stopping or reducing doses of prescription medicine, also called deprescribing, is something many older adults would like to do, and some have already done without medical guidance. Medication reviews could help.

While higher income improves maternal and infant health over time, it’s not enough to offset the impact of race, according to new research. In addition, although higher-income mothers and their babies ultimately end up with better health outcomes, they actually start out with more difficulties. And regardless of wealth, maternal and infant health in the United States lags behind Sweden.

Older adults are less likely to feel isolated now than at the height of the pandemic, but levels of loneliness are still high.

In a new study, newborn drug testing inequities remained similar after recreational legalization of cannabis, overall test positivity rates for THC increased

Hospice, palliative care, end-of-life decisions, long-term care insurance and durable power of attorney are all things people with serious health issues should think about.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science elected 17 University of Michigan faculty and staff members as 2022 Fellows.

Highly processed foods can act on the brain in ways that spark cravings, emotional reactions and signs of addiction, and a new poll shows how many older adults experience this.

These services, researchers found, were largely inaccessible to people who use sign language, discriminating against already ‘severely marginalized’ population in the United States.

In this episode we discuss what’s known about the association between personality type and cognitive function. Further, the idea of resilience—or what protects the cognition of individuals with a high level of neuropathology associated with cognitive decline—might have important implications for dementia prevention. Our guests are Dr. Eileen Graham and Dr. Dan Mroczek. Drs. Graham and Mroczek are both faculty at Northwestern University with interests in how personality factors influence physical and cognitive health over the life course.