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For Older Adults, a Drop in Financial Well-Being Takes a Toll on Memory

Worse financial well-being in midlife and older age are associated with faster cognitive decline.

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Aging and Healthy Longevity
New Data Platform Tracks the Complex Path to Alzheimer’s and Could Transform How Its Risk Is Predicted

A comprehensive effort uses large-scale clinical data to advance precision aging research and accelerate discoveries in Alzheimer’s prevention and care.

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Aging and Healthy Longevity
ARPA-H Contract to Advance Science of Healthy Aging

New five-year program will include analysis of existing clinical trials to identify biomarkers and treatments that extend health span—not just lifespan.

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Aging and Healthy Longevity
Wired on Aging: Dan Belsky answers longevity questions

In a recent edition of WIRED’s video series, CAC faculty member Dan Belsky answers the public's questions about longevity and epidemiology.

In The Media

Low on energy? A new understanding of rest could help revitalise you

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New Scientist

December 29, 2026

CAC Faculty member Martin Picard discusses “deep rest” as a restorative practice to put your organism into a state of lower energy demand
The New Old Age

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Time

January 13, 2026

Jack Rowe says "What we have is a fundamental change in the age structure of society” referring to the way we’re aging, also the way we’re creating young people, with birth rates plummeting.
Doctor answers longevity questions

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WIRED

January 5, 2026

Dan Belsky answers the public's questions about longevity and epidemiology.
Study reveals new evidence: stress alters metabolic hormone with health consequences

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EurekAlert

October 14, 2025

Columbia Aging Center’s Martin Picard on how our lived experience—our relationships, our stress, our resilience—gets translated into biology.

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