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Another plaintiff, Dr. Katie Edwards, had six grants canceled since February, the lawsuit says. Edwards, a professor at the University of Michigan School of Social Work, has focused on research about preventing sexual violence in minority communities, including among Indigenous youth and LGBTQ+ communities.
Ginny Keil, who worked as a licensed clinical social worker and earned her master’s degree in social work from Rutgers at age 52, said she first heard about the audit program through a choir friend. She enrolled in 2016, taking a few courses. Her husband soon followed.
Purple flags representing the 291 county residents who died of opioid overdose in 2023 are displayed in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, in recognition of International Overdose Awareness Day last August.
It’s well-known that family caregiving for sick or elderly adults can bring on stress, anxiety and depression. It can also turn you into someone you don’t even recognize. Caregivers say it scrambles old habits and patterns, rearranges intimate relationships, and forces you to confront your limits. It can excavate and reorganize the soul, what one caregiver calls mind and body fracking.
Age-related brain diseases such as stroke, dementia, and late-life depression are a debilitating part of growing older, but people can lower their risk of these diseases through behavioral and lifestyle changes. In a new extensive systematic review, Mass General Brigham researchers identified 17 modifiable risk factors that are shared by stroke, dementia, and late-life depression. Modifying any one of them can reduce your risk of all three conditions.