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While tai chi is understood to be beneficial for functional mobility and balance in older adults, such benefits are not well understood due to large variance in research study protocols and...

Dae Hyun Kim, MD, MPH, ScD, founder of the Frailty Research Program at Hebrew SeniorLife's Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, has been elected to the American Society for Clinical...

A groundbreaking study published in JAMA titled “ Orthostatic Hypotension, Hypertension Treatment, and Cardiovascular Disease: An Individual Participant Meta-Analysis” provides new understanding...

Boston, MA - A nationwide study of 21,878 older nursing home residents with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation found a higher rate of bleeding and little difference in the effectiveness of standard...

BOSTON – A new study, “ Timing of Orthostatic Hypotension and its Relationship with Falls in Older Adults,” has brought critical insights to the assessment of orthostatic hypotension, a drop in blood...

Amir Baniassadi, PhD, a post-doctoral research fellow at the Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, has been named a 2023 STAT Wunderkind. STAT, a journalism outlet covering health...

On-Yee Lo, PhD, assistant scientist II at the Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research at Hebrew SeniorLife and instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess...

BOSTON – There is growing evidence that a relative abundance of certain gut microbes may be related to skeletal health, according to a new study published in Frontiers in Endocrinology. If confirmed...

BOSTON, MA – A new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine that compared different antipsychotics used to treat symptoms of post-operative delirium in older patients found that the risks of...

Boston, MA - New research finds that sleep can be most efficient and restful for older adults when nighttime bedroom ambient temperature ranges between 68 to 77 degrees Fahrenheit. The authors...