Coping efforts tied to longevity in older men.

A recent study found that a health coaching intervention called I-STAND successfully reduced sitting time for older adults by over 30 minutes a day, leading to meaningful improvements in blood pressure. The study included 283 participants who received a tabletop standing desk, an activity tracker, and 10 health coaching sessions over six months. The intervention could be easily implemented in various active-aging settings. Another study showed that the overall effort put into coping with stressors was more important for longevity in older men than the specific coping strategies used. The researchers followed 743 men over a span of 27 years and found that the extent of coping efforts related to the risk of dying. Lastly, an analysis of Medicare beneficiaries with dementia showed that Medicare expenditures were higher for Black and Hispanic individuals compared to Whites, with the highest expenditures for Black beneficiaries in every phase of care. Non-Hispanic Black beneficiaries had fewer ambulatory care visits and more high-cost emergency department and inpatient visits. Extracted from the article