Who Holds Responsibility in AI-Driven Care?
AI can make care faster and more accurate — but whether it makes care more equitable depends on how these systems are built, tested, and distributed.
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Dr. Will Mair & the Unstable Systems Upholding Scientific Research
A New York Times story about Will Mair's disrupted aging lab — and the fragile systems that long-term scientific progress quietly depends on.
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Brewing Prevention: Coffee, Cognition & the Aging Brain
New research links caffeinated coffee to a modest reduction in dementia risk — a promising association, not a cure, and a useful lesson in reading the evidence.
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Fresh From Washington: A Policy Pulse on Aging
A week in federal health policy — telehealth, Hospital at Home, TrumpRx, and what a $1.2 trillion package means for how aging care actually gets delivered.
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Progress Without Fanfare: The FY2026 Budget and Aging Research
The FY2026 budget quietly protected — and grew — federal investment in aging and brain-health research. A look at what survived, and why it matters.
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Not Always Alzheimer's: What LATE Dementia Teaches Us About the Aging Brain
A lesser-known condition called LATE may account for 15–20% of dementia cases — and mistaking it for Alzheimer's has real consequences for diagnosis, research, and care.
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When the Air We Breathe Affects the Brain: Pollution & Dementia
Emerging evidence ties air pollution to dementia and brain aging — and unlike age or genetics, it's a risk factor policy can actually change.
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Food for Thought: How AI Could Assist Global Health Crises
Beyond the hype and the fear, AI already helps diagnose disease and design drugs. What if we aimed it squarely at global health?
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What Bacalhau Can Teach Us About Brain Health: Lessons from Portugal's Table
Ten days eating my way through Portugal turned into a case study in how a coastal, Mediterranean diet quietly supports aging well.
Read →Smaller Than a Pea: Myelin, Schwann Cells, and the Case for Early Screening
How tiny tumors on myelin-producing cells can silence hearing and balance — and why early detection should be policy.
Read →Future Leaders in Public Service: Lessons from FLIPS at Harvard
Takeaways from Harvard's FLIPS conference on fundraising, data, and scaling The Melody Project.
Read →Puzzle Pieces and Chopin: A Melody Project Session at Inspir
Students and residents at Inspir Senior Living turned Chopin into a shared tapestry of art.
Read →Mapping the Nervous System: Meninges, Neurons, and What Goes Wrong
Notes from a neurobiology course — the CNS, the PNS, and how tumors and toxins find their way in.
Read →A Day at the Pantry: Feeding New York, One Bag at a Time
Packing FreshDirect bags with the Connected Chef in Queens — and why delivery matters most for seniors.
Read →Dance and Stroll: What Connection Does for the Aging Brain
An evening wheeling residents onto a dance floor — and the policy case for building social interaction into elder care.
Read →Empty Plates: Food Poverty and the Aging Body
What packaging meal parcels across the Bronx taught me about the diet gap facing seniors — and what Congress could do about it.
Read →Learning the Levers: A First Course in Public Policy
Why I moved from running a nonprofit to studying how policy actually gets made.
Read →One Note at a Time: How The Melody Project Began
The idea behind The Melody Project — using piano and connection to reach isolated seniors — and where it all started.
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