Tag: social determinants of health

Livable Communities for All Ages

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Our social and physical environments shape how we age. As populations grow older and more diverse, systems often need to adapt to serve their communities well. Age-Friendly Communities involve people across sectors to generate data, proposals, and action. It’s a similar approach as Age-Friendly Health Systems and Dementia Friendly Communities. “Both older people and the …

Taking Stress in STRIDE: Learning How to Support Brain Health

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“Almost everyone experiences stress,” says Megan Zuelsdorff, PhD, an epidemiologist and assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Nursing.  “Stress is an underlying construct for a lot of my research. I think of it as both an outcome and as a social determinant of other aspects of health,” she says. She points out that …