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Teresa, 75, an Alzheimer's patient and former businesswoman, poses for a photograph inside the Alzheimer Foundation, in Mexico City, Mexico, on April 19, 2012.

A New Era for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis

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Emerging biomarkers and digital tools are unlocking earlier and more accurate diagnosis

Elderly people dance on a street during the International Day of Older Persons in Sao Paulo's Avenida Paulista October 1, 2013. REUTERS/Nacho Doce (BRAZIL - Tags: SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Brazil's Population Fragility Taxes National Health Systems

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Rising noncommunicable diseases and aging are exposing structural weaknesses in the world's largest public health system

Searching for Elderly Patients After the Los Angeles Wildfires

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A UCLA neurologist describes the struggle to reach socially and physically isolated patients months after the wildfires

Searching for Elderly Patients After the Los Angeles Wildfires

South Carolina Addresses the Geriatrician Gap

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The state is leading efforts to care for its aging population by recruiting elder-care specialists

South Carolina Addresses the Geriatrician Gap

A New Model for Healthy Aging

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Fostering innovation to meet the needs of an aging population

A New Model for Healthy Aging

The Cost of Inaction

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Governments worldwide should step up against Alzheimer's

The Cost of Inaction

Just How Do Deaths Due to COVID-19 Stack Up?

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Despite a likely undercount in many places, COVID is among the leading causes of death in most countries

Just How Do Deaths Due to COVID-19 Stack Up?

Aging and Displaced

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The health and well-being of millions of older people around the world are threatened by violence and war

Aging and Displaced

An Aging World Requires More Support for Health Systems

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Development assistance should reflect this need

a retired goat herder poses for a photograph in Choklamsar, a village nestled high in the Indian Himalayas, India September 27, 2016. When asked how living in the worlds fastest growing major economy had affected life, Takapa replied: "Traditional values are being lost as we focus on money."

Tackling the World's Most Vexing Diseases Through Data

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A call to re-shape the way policymakers make health decisions by getting the most cost-effective priorities straight

Students wear face masks during a health-care action rally dedicated to COVID-19 in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia on February 3, 2020

What to do About Type 2

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Aging, obesity, and poor diet are driving the diabetes epidemic worldwide—and so is air pollution

Factories emit smoke in Jilin province, China, across the Songhua River from where an elderly man exercises on the morning of Feb 24, 2013, after Chinese authorities announced plans to curb pollution. The photo shows the man in the foreground, back to the camera, with buildings on the other side of the river pouring out smoke. REUTERS/Stringer

Age Ain't Nothing but a Number—Except When it Comes to Health

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In some parts of the world, forty is the new seventy

An elderly demonstrator poses for the camera as he makes a V-sign during ongoing anti-government protests, in Baghdad, Iraq, December 10, 2019. He has a black-and-white checkered scarf tied on his head and a red and white sash with green accents, around his neck. He has a very long white beard and friendly eyes. REUTERS/Alaa al-MarjaniSELECT