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🧠New #publication in Innovation in Aging from CDHA affiliates Sterling Johnson & Natascha Merten

“Accelerated Phenotypic Aging in Midlife is Associated with Long-term Risk of Neurodegeneration”

➡️ pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

💬Please join us tomorrow to listen to Diana Hernandez's presentation: "Energy Insecurity: The People's Struggle for Power at Home."

Organizational and Non-Organizational Religious Participation and Trajectories of Cognitive Function among Older African Americans AbstractObjectives. The aims of this study were to determine 1) whether organizational and non-organizational religious participation are associated with c

⛪New #publication in Journals of Gerontology from CDHA and @cdeuw.bsky.social affiliate Weidi Qin
“Organizational and Non-Organizational Religious Participation and Trajectories of Cognitive Function among Older African Americans”

➡️ doi.org/10.1093/gero...

🌷New #publication from CDHA affiliates Victoria Williams, Michal Engelman, Pamela Herd & Sanjay Asthana in Innovation in Aging

“Life Course Modifiable Risk Factors for Dementia Stratified by ApoE-4 Status”

➡️ pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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Hearing impairment and cognitive decline: Alternative explanations to causality - PubMed Despite growing interest in hearing impairment as a potentially modifiable risk factor for dementia, the association is poorly understood. This has implications for whether treating hearing impairment can prevent or delay onset of dementia, as causation is not the only explanation for the associatio …

👂New #publication in Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease from CDHA affiliate Natascha Merten

“Hearing Impairment and Cognitive Decline: Alternative Explanations to Causality”

➡️ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41555828/

Is your neighborhood aging you?

Research by CDHA postdocs Christina Kamis & Yiyue Xu with CDHA affiliates Kristen Malecki & Amy Schultz links neighborhood stress to accelerated biological aging, w/ mental distress tied to measurable DNA damage.

Read more here: news.illinois.edu/your-neighbo...

What Matters Most to People Living With Dementia and Their Care Partners During Emergency Department Visits - PubMed Findings suggest that interpersonal interactions, including being informed about care and involved in decisions, strongly influence the evaluation of ED visits for PLWD. These findings can support the development of person-centered outcome measures capable of evaluating these priorities.

🏥New #publication from CDHA affiliates Maria Mora Pinzon, Manish N Shah, Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi in J Am Geriatr Soc

“What Matters Most to People Living With Dementia and Their Care Partners During Emergency Department Visits”

➡️ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41359361/

In Care Of School of Human Ecology

🎉Congratulations to CDHA affiliate and Associate Professor Kristin Litzelman on the successful launch of the new digital exhibition, In Care Of: Postcard-Sized Portrayals of Caregiving in Wisconsin!

➡️Tour the virtual exhibition at in-care-of.humanecology.wisc.edu

Be sure to join us today to hear from Jessica Faul!

Today's DemSem is CANCELLED due to building heating problems. The student meeting is also cancelled. We will reschedule the talk for next semester.

How does life course exposure to contextual disadvantage accelerate biological aging? The role of psychological symptoms AbstractObjectives. Recent research has found that life course exposure to contextual socioeconomic disadvantage may accelerate biological aging, providing

☀️New #publication from CDHA affiliates Amy Schultz & @michalengelman.bsky.social in the Journals of Gerontology

“How does life course exposure to contextual disadvantage accelerate biological aging? The role of psychological symptoms”

➡️Learn more here: doi.org/10.1093/gero...

Tau mediates the impact of amyloid and vascular disease burden on the trajectory of clinical symptoms Amyloid (A) and vascular (V) pathologies often co‐occur and progress over decades. We leveraged chronicity, defined as the years above a biomarker‐positivity threshold, to examine how the timing of A and V relates to cognitive decline. We modeled ...

🤓New #publication in @alzdemjournals.bsky.social from CDHA Sanjay Asthana & Sterling Johnson
“Tau mediates the impact of amyloid and vascular disease burden on the trajectory of clinical symptoms”

➡️ pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Mystery Solved: Scientists Find Cause for Unexplained, Deadly Diseases A study reveals that a protein called RPA is essential for maintaining chromosome stability by stimulating telomerase. New findings from the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggest that problems with ...

👏Check out CDHA affiliate @cijilim.bsky.social research cited in SciTechDaily
“Mystery Solved: Scientists Find Cause for Unexplained, Deadly Diseases”

➡️Learn more here: scitechdaily.com/mystery-solv...

Association between low‐frequency oscillations in blood pressure variability and brain age derived from neuroimaging We examined the association between low‐frequency oscillations in blood pressure variability (LF‐BPV) at baseline (past) and 12 years later (concurrent) and BrainAGE gap (an indicator of brain health). Participants were 110 adults (age range 37–83 ...

🧠New #publication from CDHA affiliates Jill Barnes & Stacey Schaefer in @alzdemjournals.bsky.social
“Association between low-frequency oscillations in blood pressure variability and brain age derived from neuroimaging”

➡️ pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

UW professor aims to use personalized vaccines to prevent cancer recurrence Quanyin Hu, a professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy, spoke to The Daily Cardinal about his research into personalized cancer vaccines. 

💉CDHA affiliate Quanyin Hu quoted in @dailycardinal.bsky.social

“UW professor aims to use personalized vaccines to prevent cancer recurrence”
➡️Read more here: www.dailycardinal.com/article/2025...

Alzheimer Disease Blood Biomarker Concentrations by Race and Ethnicity in Midlife This cohort study investigates race and ethnicity differences in plasma concentrations for biomarkers of Alzheimer disease and assesses the association between these biomarkers and medical conditions ...

❄️New #publication in JAMA from CDHA affiliates Eric Grodsky, Soobin Kim, Michael J. Culbertson

“Alzheimer Disease Blood Biomarker Concentrations Across Race and Ethnicity Groups in Middle-Aged Adults”
➡️ jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

👓New #publication in SSM- Population Health from CDHA and @cdeuw.bsky.social affiliates Weidi Qin & Stephanie Robert “The Influence of Negative Wealth Shock on Depressive Symptoms and Major Depressive Episode Among Older Adults”

➡️ doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

Social Workers’ Role in Improving Hospice Live Discharge Processes A lack of standardized care coordination is challenging the ability for patients and families to receive support following a live discharge from hospice.

✍️Check out this article from Hospice News citing CDHA affiliate Tracy Schroepfer’s research in “Social Workers’ Role in Improving Hospice Live Discharge Processes”

➡️Read here: hospicenews.com/2025/08/26/s...

Hospice Social Worker and Nurse Perceptions of the Usability of a Hospice Live Discharge Protocol (LDP) - Stephanie P. Wladkowski, Susan Enguídanos, Tracy A. Schroepfer, 2025 Background Live discharges from hospice are often distressing for patients, caregivers, and hospice providers alike, disrupting care continuity and leading to e...

🧑‍⚕️New #publication in American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine from CDHA affiliate Tracy Schroepfer “Hospice Social Worker and Nurse Perceptions of the Usability of a Hospice Live Discharge Protocol (LDP)”

➡️Learn more here: doi.org/10.1177/1049...

🍎New #publication in Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health from CDHA affiliate Lillie Williamson “The Consequence of the Cape: A mixed-Methods Inquiry into the Sociocultural Stressors Impacting Black Women’s Health”

➡️ link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Addressing Alzheimer's: Speech And Smell Tests May Help To Detect Cognitive Decline - Health Policy Watch DAC supports an innovation ecosystem to accelerate healthcare solutions to end Alzheimer's disease globally, and DAC-supported projects in Kenya, India, Egypt

💬 @cdeuw.bsky.social and CDHA affiliate Amy Kind quoted in @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social “Addressing Alzheimer’s: Speech and Smell Tests May Help to Detect Cognitive Decline”

➡️Read more here: healthpolicy-watch.news/addressing-a...

Clinical and Prognostic Utility of the Essential Frailty Toolset in Older Patients With Heart Failure A total of 1237 patients hospitalized with HF are included in the study. The EFT is evaluated using the 5TCST, Mini-Cog test, and serum hemoglobin and albumin levels, with scores ranging from 0 to 5 ...

💟New #publication in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society from CDHA affiliate Naoki Aizawa “Clinical and Prognostic Utility of the Essential Frailty Toolset in Older Patients With Heart Failure”

➡️Read more here: doi.org/10.1111/jgs....

Longevity gains slowing with life expectancy of 100 unlikely, study finds A new study co-authored by a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor finds that life expectancy gains made by high-income countries in the first half of the 20th century have slowed significantly, a...

🧓 @cdeuw.bsky.social & CDHA affiliate Héctor Piffaré’s research cited in Phys Org “Longevity gains slowing with life expectancy of 100 unlikely, study finds”

➡️Read more here: phys.org/news/2025-08...

📚New #publication in SSM-Population Health from CDHA affiliates Amy Schultz & Michal Engelman

➡️"Cumulative neighborhood disadvantage and racial and geographic disparities in epigenetic aging."

doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

What to know about measles risks and vaccination recommendations in Wisconsin This story was produced and originally published by Wisconsin Watch in collaboration with Door County Knock. Before the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of Americans faced measles infections each year. Th...

💉Become informed by @cdeuw.bsky.social & CDHA affiliate Malia Jones and colleague Dr. Jim Conway in @pbswisconsin.bsky.social “What to know about measles risks and vaccination recommendations in Wisconsin”

➡️Read: pbswisconsin.org/news-item/wh...

🕑New #publication in @alzdemjournals.bsky.social from CDHA affiliates Victoria Williams, Sterling Johnson, @michalengelman.bsky.social, Pamela Herd & Sanjay Asthana “Dementia prevalence in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study”

➡️ pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...