Press Releases

A new supplement issue of The Gerontological Society of America’s journal The Gerontologist marks 20 years of public health leadership on dementia through the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Healthy Brain Initiative (HBI) and highlights unprecedented progress in establishing dementia as a public health priority nationwide. Accelerated through implementation of the federal government’s Building Our Largest Dementia Infrastructure (BOLD) Act, the supplement documents how brain health, dementia risk reduction, early detection, and caregiving are now core components of public health practice.

Shingles vaccination not only protects against the disease but may also contribute to slower biological aging in older adults, according to a new study published in The Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biolgical Sciences and Medical Sciences.

Tamara Baker, PhD, FGSA, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been installed as the new president of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), the nation’s largest interdisciplinary organization focused on aging. She was elected by GSA’s membership, which consists of 6,000 researchers, educators, practitioners, and other professionals.

New research published in The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences has discovered a direct causal effect between social isolation and a faster decline in later-life cognitive function.

Implementing Anti-Amyloid Therapies, Conversations with Clinical Leaders is a new webinar series — developed by the Gerontological Society of America in collaboration with the Alzheimer’s Association — that provides guidance to primary care providers and others for implementing recently approved therapies to delay the progression of Alzheimer’s disease (AD).