Roscoe Nicholson

Although over the lifetime, obesity has been associated with a number of poor health outcomes and greater overall mortality risk, some previous studies have shown…

A recent study examined how the cognitive demands of a job can impact cognitive changes before and after retirement. Using data from the Health and…

A recent review in Current Opinion in Psychiatry addressed the unique problems posed by substance abuse among older adults. In addition to describing the prevalence…

Researchers recently discovered that the health impacts of eating protein change as we age. Their study looked at the impact of protein consumption on overall…

Prior research has shown that the experience of widowhood differs for men and women. Following widowhood, women are more likely than men to suffer economic…

Approximately a third of the population suffers from difficulty falling asleep, frequent waking, poor quality of sleep, and a variety of sleep-related breathing problems. For…

Although prior research on factors impacting quality indicators of resident outcomes in nursing homes has focused on nursing home staffing and skill mix, less attention…

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, and in Europe cardiovascular disease accounted for up to 47 percent of deaths…

The quality of social relationships has been reliably related to physical health in a number of studies, and a recent meta-analysis has suggested that social…

Recent research in nutrition suggests that, when examining the potential health risks and benefits of food, researchers look beyond the major food groups such as…

Widowhood has been known to increase the probability of dying for the surviving spouse, but many questions remain about the reasons for this greater risk…

A team of German researchers recently undertook a research project which examined both media representations of older adults and older adults’ ideas of what it…