Archive: Jul 2021

USA Today reports: What does the recent drop in life expectancy in the U.S. tell us?

July 29, 2021

During the pandemic in 2020, life expectancy in the U.S. suffered the biggest drop since World War II, declining by 1.5 years with Black and Hispanic populations seeing even larger drops. According to former post-doc fellow Jennifer Karas Montez who is…

Study finds those who expected to be working at age 62 (but then weren't) suffered from increase in depressive symptoms

July 08, 2021

Harvard Sloan Fellow on Aging and Work Leah Abrams, PhD, is an author on a paper published in The Journals of Gerontology, Series b that finds that middle-aged adults who experienced an “unexpected work exit” suffered from more depressive…