Chen admitted to RAND Summer Institute
Emily Chen has been admitted to the prestigious RAND Summer Institute (RSI) this year. The RSI consists of two annual conferences that address critical issues facing the aging population: the...
View ArticleWethington presents to media on the risks to elders during natural disasters
photo by Blaine Friedlander Seniors are more susceptible to injury and death during natural disasters due to mobility problems, sensitivity to pollutants, and social isolation, among other issues. BCTR...
View ArticleKarl Pillemer discusses “30 Lessons for Living” on The PBS News Hour
January 5, 2012, The PBS News Hour aired an interview with BCTR affiliate Karl Pillemer in which he discusses his new book, 30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans....
View ArticleDementia and antipsychotic medicine: A new review
"One in three senior citizens suffer from Alzheimer’s disease or dementia when they die, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. Often patients with dementia have behavioral problems such as...
View Article2010 Bronfenbrenner Lecture
Exploring a Biopsychosocial Model of Cumulative Risk March 15, 2010 Teresa Seeman, Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles
View ArticleBCTR co-sponsored talk: Linda Waite
Contemporary medicine is organized around diseases of particular organ systems such as the cardiovascular system (heart disease) or energy metabolism (diabetes). This model tends to ignore health...
View ArticleVideo from the 2013 Bronfenbrenner Conference now online
front row: Carstensen, Mather, Tsai, Ong, Loeckenhoff; back row: Mroczek, Riediger, Zautra, Kubzansky, Bonanno, Charles, Anderson, Urry. The Fourth Biennial Urie Bronfenbrenner Conference on New...
View ArticleA new approach to managing arthritis pain
Karl Pillemer Although they had developed a program that was proven to help people manage arthritis pain, Cornell researchers found that participants were having trouble attending all of the training...
View ArticleBoomers pioneer new retirement housing trends
A recent article on Yahoo! Finance reports that, according to the National Association of Home Builders, almost one fourth of remodelers surveyed last year were doing work so that boomers could age in...
View ArticleOvercoming older African Americans’ reluctance to participate as research...
Myra Sabir, former Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center postdoctoral fellow and assistant director, is the primary author of a recent article in The Journal of Aging Studies on the difficulties of...
View ArticleTalks at Twelve: Karl Pillemer
Resident-to-Resident Elder Mistreatment in Nursing Homes: Findings from the First Prevalence Study Thursday, October 23, 2014 Karl Pillemer Human Development, Cornell University
View ArticleTRIPLL’s National Institute on Aging funding renewed
The BCTR's Translational Research Institute for Pain in Later Life (TRIPLL) has received a five-year, $1.95 million renewal grant from the National Institute on Aging. In this next phase, TRIPLL adds a...
View ArticleNew book: “Thirty Lessons for Loving” by Karl Pillemer
30 Lessons for Loving: Advice from the Wisest Americans on Love, Relationships, and Marriage uses data and stories from the most detailed survey of long-married people ever conducted to show the way to...
View ArticlePillemer in the NY Times on blooming in later life
Karl Pillemer A recent New York Times article dispels the myth that a person's best creative, professional, or even physical accomplishments are necessarily confined to the younger years. Many are...
View ArticleThe midlife crisis myth
Elaine Wethington Do a significant number of people experience stress about aging in midlife, leading to sudden life changes and sports car purchases? They do not, according to a new study. A recent...
View ArticleNetworking event on pain in later life sparks new connections
TRIPLL co-director Elaine Wethington speaking with Information Sciences grad student Alex Adams (l) and Communications associate professor Jeff Niederdeppe (r) On October 21st the Translational...
View ArticleCoordinated team action best addresses elder abuse
The Cornell Chronicle reports on a recent publication, co-authored by BCTR director Karl Pillemer, outlining the likely traits of victims and perpetrators of elder abuse and the best approach to...
View ArticleNew Book: “Emotion, Aging, and Health”
Although older adults face significant health challenges, they tend to have better emotion regulation skills than younger or middle-age adults. Why is this so? And how might we use this knowledge to...
View ArticleNursing home residents commonly abused by neighbors
By Heather Lindsey for the Cornell Chronicle: Pillemer and Lachs Twenty percent of people living in nursing homes are abused by other residents, according to a study by researchers in the College of...
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