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Tech Talk: New AI model measures how fast the brain ages
A new artificial intelligence (AI) model measures how fast a patient's brain is aging and could be a powerful new tool for understanding, preventing and treating cognitive decline and dementia, according to University of Southern California researchers.
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What to expect from generation beta
Prudential Financial, Inc. welcomed Generation Beta (people born January 1, 2025, to Dec. 31, 2039) by commissioning a report that reveals how Americans envision the future, and how technological, social and economic shifts will impact their financial security.
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New guidelines for diagnosing dementia released
The Alzheimer's Association recently released new guidelines for diagnosing dementia. What's important for active-aging communities is the fact that the guidelines are applicable to primary and specialty care, not just neurologists. That means they could be easier to implement, and the process may be easier to explain to family members.
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Is fraud a factor in remarkable age records?
Supercentenarian and so-called "remarkable" age records show patterns indicative of clerical errors and pension fraud, Saul Justin Newman, PhD, a University of Oxford, UK, professor writes in a report that is published, but not yet peer-reviewed (preprint). He notes that the concentration of people colloquially known as super-agers within geographic regions or "blue zones" has stimulated many efforts to understand the factors driving survival in these populations. Researchers have analyzed lifestyle patterns, social connections, biomarkers, and genomic variants, he writes, "under the assumption that these are the potential drivers behind the attainment of remarkable age."
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Aging well in the future: What we need to do
The International Longevity Center (ILC)'s futures report, commissioned by Brightwell, a UK-based provider of services to defined benefit pension schemes, highlights how the world is changing rapidly, and technological, economic, societal and environmental changes are reshaping our experience of longer lives.
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Stats: 74% of those over 50 don't trust AI-generated health info
While the vast majority of people over 50 look for health information on the internet, a new poll shows 74% would have very little or no trust in such information if it were generated by artificial intelligence.
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