Category: North America
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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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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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Why Growing Old in the U.S. Sucks…and There is Nothing (Something) We Can Do About It
I am close to thirty years old. According to the latest data from the World Bank, I can expect to live another 45 to 50 years (Current U.S. life expectancy 78.7 years). However, the quality of those years is up for debate. Our current baby boomer population, on average, is sicker than their parents. The…
Global Health Aging 