Roscoe Nicholson
Mindfulness over Matter: Helping Caregivers Reduce Stress
Caregiving for individuals with dementia often involves a great deal of stress and has been associated with greater risk of a number of negative mental…
Getting to Know You: Intergenerational Contact Shifts Young People’s Perceptions of Older Adults
A recent study investigated how intergenerational contact influences young people’s perceptions of older adults. The researchers hypothesized that quality intergenerational contact would lead young adults…
Changing Perspectives: Thoughts on Expanding How We View Technology & Aging
A recent article suggests the need to expand the ways that researchers, policy makers, technology designers, and other stakeholders perceive the relationship between technology and…
TRENDING NOW: Older Adults Are Learning to Fall
Learning how to fall is an intervention not commonly heard of in aging services, but it has been making headway. In theory, older adults in…
Having a Higher Purpose Lowers Risks of Physical Decline
Sense of purpose has been associated with multiple cognitive and other health outcomes in older adults. Using longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Survey,…
Why Me? What Makes Some People More Susceptible to Online Fraud?
With an increasing amount of online fraud being conducted in the form of “phishing” emails, a recent paper looked at the cognitive and emotional characteristics…
A Closer Look at Caregivers: Caregiver Types Defined by Burdens & Benefits
Researchers recently used data from two major surveys of aging and caregiving to categorize caregiving experiences into five types, and to identify the prevalence of…
Total Recall: How Age-Related Stereotypes Affect Older Adults’ Recall & Memory
In two studies, researchers examined evidence that age-related stereotypes have a surprising effect on recall and memory in older adults. In the first study, approximately…
Oh, the Places You’ll Live! Strategies for Improving Future Older Adults Housing
In light of recent efforts to reframe the discussion about housing for older adults, a recent Public Policy and Aging Report article described four strategies…
TRENDING NOW: Japan Uses Robots to Bridge Employee Shortage in Eldercare
A recent article in The New York Times explored the news of Japan implementing worker-robots in Tokyo’s Shin-Tomi nursing home. Although this may be surprising…
Want to Improve Quality of Life for Nursing Home Residents? Focus on These 3 Key Needs
The psychological theory of self-determination suggests that our needs for autonomy, relatedness, and feeling effective (competency) are key elements of human well-being. A recent longitudinal…
The Long & Short of It: Get Your Recommended Weekly Physical Activity However You Can
The Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans released in 2008 recommended that adults get at least 150 minutes of moderate—or 75 minutes of vigorous—physical activity each…
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