Staying close to home and avoiding crowded places can help older adults reduce their risk of COVID-19. But a new national poll suggests it comes with a cost, especially for those with health challenges.
Sep 14, 2020
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Eating together is an important way of fostering social connections. In recent years, we have been researching, and working with, the social eating movement: community-based food projects that use surplus food from supermarkets ...
Sep 8, 2020
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Children diagnosed with autism often have difficulty making eye contact, which can inhibit their ability to create and maintain fulfilling social relationships. Research has also shown that social communicative gestures, ...
Sep 3, 2020
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Around the world, domestic abuse affects one in three women, and every three seconds, someone develops dementia. Yet despite the prevalence of both these issues, little attention is given to what happens when they are combined. ...
Aug 19, 2020
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A team of researchers from the Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University has found a connection between how sleepy people are and how much they socialize. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy ...
A return to pre-pandemic normal life seems impossible for the foreseeable future. In the absence of control measures, it would result in the rapid spread of coronavirus and many deaths.
Aug 14, 2020
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Sweden has become something of a cautionary tale for what happens when you attempt to tackle coronavirus without lockdowns.
Aug 5, 2020
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COVID-19 has dramatically altered everyday life around the globe. Ongoing research studies are not immune to the disruptions and changes caused by the global pandemic. Researchers at the University of Kentucky's Sanders-Brown ...
Aug 5, 2020
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A UF/EPI professor helped develop a model that estimates slightly more than half of COVID-19 transmission is due to people with no symptoms. A third or more of these cases would need to be isolated, in addition to most symptomatic ...
Jul 14, 2020
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If you've been keeping a healthy distance from other people because of COVID-19, you probably feel smart. But if you're also feeling lonely and stressed, it doesn't mean anything is wrong. It could simply mean you're human.
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