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Comment on this story Comment If no one in your circle of family and friends is mentally ill, count yourself lucky — or maybe you’re just deluding yourself. In my intimate social network, I can think of at least six cases. I’m not talking just about relatives or friends or the children of friends who […]
The portion of U.S. adults identifying as LGBTQ has doubled over the last decade, according to a Gallup poll released on Wednesday. Gallup found that 7.2 percent of Americans identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or something other than heterosexual in aggregated polling data from 2022. This is about double the portion of American adults that […]
Black adults may face a greater risk of high blood pressure and stroke if they are found to have a high level of an organic compound called gluconic acid in their body, according to preliminary research presented at . . .
The first objective of this study was to describe handgrip characteristics in the older population from Antioquia, Colombia. In this population, handgrip strength significantly decreases with aging, in both men and women. Handgrip strength has shown a positive and strong association with functional and health parameters. These findings corroborate the potential value of manual dynamometry […]
More than 1 in 4 US adults 71 years and older were found to have vision impairment (VI) in 2021, which was a higher number than previous estimates according to JAMA Ophthalmology. The prevalence of VI also differed according to socioeconomic and demographic factors. Older adults are more likely to be affected by VI, with […]
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain While previous studies of incarceration and family life have focused on immediate family—parents, partners and children—a new analysis of a nationally representative survey of U.S. adults that asked about siblings, grandparents, grandchildren, cousins, and other extended family members has found that Black adults in the United States are not only more […]
Yi notes that siblings, for example, influence one another’s well-being in childhood and can later serve as sources of support in adulthood. Grandparents and other relations – especially grandmothers and aunts – often serve as primary or secondary caregivers and as critical sources of in-kind support in families. “Previous family demographic research by other scholars […]
Americans are divided about whether businesses should take a public stance on political and social issues, with 48% believing they should and 52% saying they should not. Younger adults are more likely than older adults to believe businesses should take a stance: 59% of those aged 18 to 29 think as much, compared with 51% […]
(AP) – More than 1.3% of the adult population in the U.S. was displaced by natural disasters in the past year, with hurricanes responsible for more than half of the forced relocations, according to first-of-its-kind survey results from the U.S. Census Bureau. The Household Pulse Survey results said that 3.3 million U.S. adults were displaced by either […]