Author: Global Health Aging
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The Healing Power of Optimism – A Positive Outlook Can Improve Quality of Life and Health
The Benefits of Staying Positive There are many benefits associated with staying positive. This is supported by the fact that a continually growing body of research points to the benefits of viewing things in a positive light rather than negatively. Researchers believe that positive thinkers have no lasting negative effects since they are able to handle…
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Italy: How Location Affects Mental Health
Depression among the elderly is very common and can cause suicidal thoughts. People think that having depression is part of growing old and a disease that needs to be lived with. However, depression can be treated. There are many factors that can cause depression such as losing a lifelong partner and seeing their own children…
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Promoting Advance Directives, Reducing Medicare Spending
*This article was extracted from a longer, in-depth, paper written during my internship with a policy forum in Washington, D.C. More and more people are living to the age of 100. As our longevity increases, it is crucial to have an advance directive to make health care decisions, which may reduce the overall cost of…
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