Publications by authors named "B R Seligman"
Background: Subjective wellbeing (SWB) is a crucial measure of life quality in older adults. Understanding its relationship with frailty may inform strategies to promote healthy aging.
Methods: We analyzed data for older adults aged ≥ 60 years old from Waves 3 and 4 of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study.
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- COVID-19 survivors, particularly older adults, experience increased frailty, which can lead to new medical conditions and functional impairments.
- A study involving over 91,000 older Veterans showed that those who had COVID-19 developed significantly more health deficits in the year following infection compared to uninfected controls.
- The most common new health issues identified were fatigue, anemia, muscle atrophy, gait abnormalities, and arthritis, indicating long-term health risks associated with COVID-19.
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- Frailty is linked to increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk and mortality among US veterans, highlighting the importance of identifying frailty for better health outcomes.
- In a study of nearly 190,688 veterans aged 50 and older, frailty was assessed using three different scoring systems, revealing a significant correlation between frailty and higher mortality rates from all causes and CVD.
- The results suggest that regardless of the method used to measure frailty, it consistently indicates a greater risk for negative health events, indicating a need for more research specifically focusing on younger veterans under 60.
Background: Alzheimer's disease and other dementias (ADODs) severely threaten the wellbeing of older people, their families, and communities, especially with projected exponential growth. Understanding the macroeconomic implications of ADODs for policy making is essential but under-researched.
Methods: We used a health-augmented macroeconomic model to calculate the macroeconomic burden of ADODs for 152 countries or territories, accounting for: the effect on labour supply of reduced working hours of informal caregivers; the effect on labour supply of ADODs-related mortality and morbidity; age-sex-specific differences in education, work experience, labour market participations, and informal caregivers; and treatment and formal care costs diverting from savings and investments.
Precision medicine presents an opportunity to use novel, data-driven strategies to improve patient care. The field of precision medicine has undergone many advancements over the past few years. It has moved beyond incorporation of individualized genetic risk into medical decision-making to include multiple other factors such as unique social, demographic, behavioral, and clinical characteristics.
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