Not exact matches
More than half of working -
age adults believe they have the ability to start their own company, according to a new
report from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, which surveyed people working in 60 countries around the world.
Around four - in - ten
adults ages 65 and older now
report owning smartphones, and internet use adoption among this group has also risen substantially.
«When communities enable
aging adults to work, learn, volunteer, and participate socially and economically, the benefits accrue to younger people and the broader society as well,» the
report reads.
Gen Z
adults surveyed (
ages 18 to 22), are the loneliest, according to the
report.
Over the last decade, the number of
adults under
age 30 has jumped by 5 million, but the number of households for that
age group rose by just 200,000, the Journal
reports, citing the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.
For the
report, data was collected from a sample of 2,252
adults,
age 18 and older, between April 17 and May 19.
The Senior $ afe Act will better protect people
aged 65 and over from financial exploitation by increasing the likelihood it will be identified by financial services professionals and
reported to regulators,
Adult Protective Services agencies, and law enforcement authorities.
To date, results from several longitudinal studies indicate that e-cigarette use among nonsmoking youth increases the likelihood of future use of conventional cigarettes.5 — 10 Specifically, the pooled odds ratio (OR) in a recent meta - analysis of studies of adolescents and young
adults (
aged 14 — 30) indicates that those who had ever used e-cigarettes were 3.62 times more likely to
report using cigarettes at follow - up compared with those who had not used e - cigarettes.11 This finding was robust and remained significant when adjusting for known risk factors associated with cigarette smoking, including demographic, psychosocial, and behavioral variables such as cigarette susceptibility.
The survey of 903
adults aged 50 or older, who are either already retired or plan to retire in the next ten years, revealed those who began receiving Social Security income early
report a lower average monthly payment ($ 1,190) than those who started at their full retirement
age ($ 1,506) and those who delayed benefits until
age 70 ($ 1,924).
This snapshot of the volunteer behavior and thinking of young Jewish
adults - «Volunteering + Values: A Repair the World
Report on Jewish Young» - is based on the responses of 951 Jewish young
adults between the
ages of 18 and 35.
The statistic tumbles after high school with 35 percent of
adults between the
ages of 18 and 29
reporting attendance within the past week.
While working - class young
adults «struggle with similar, and structurally rooted, problems, there is no sense of «we,»»
reports Jennifer M. Silva, author of Coming Up Short: Working - Class Adulthood in an
Age of Uncertainty.
«A quarter of
adults age 21 to 35 say they prefer to visit a sports bar for happy hour, compared to just one - sixth of patrons over 35,» the
report states.
About half of all food - allergic
adults reported they developed one or more food allergies after
age 18.
With the use of the 1995 and 2011 — 2012 data sets, the ABS
reported that
adult consumers (≥ 19 y of
age) of SSBs on the day of the survey decreased from 35 % of the population in 1995 to 30.6 % in 2011 — 2012 (− 13 %) with the steepest decline in younger
adults aged 19 — 30 y (Figure 4).
In
adults ≥ 19 y of
age,
reported total energy intake declined 8 % between 1995 and 2011 — 2012 (from 9422 to 8672 kJ / d)(21).
When the first T.G.I. Friday's opened in New York City in 1965 as a meeting place for single
adults, Newsweek and The Saturday Evening Post
reported that it was the beginning of the «singles
age.»
A recent
report by the American Heart Association found that, in an emergency,
adult electrodes can be used to defibrillate a child under the
age of eight if no other alternative is available.
As evidence, she pointed to a 2011 study in the United Kingdom which found that three - quarters of the 6,000 young
adults ages 18 to 22 years interviewed about their experiences in sports earlier in adolescence
reported at least 1 incident of emotional harm playing sports, one third of whom identified their coach as the main source of harm, and to a 2005 study - one which I cited in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage (Harper Collins), and in articles adapted from that book for MomsTEAM.com - finding that 45 % of children
reported verbal misconduct by coaches, including name - calling and insulting them during play.
In its recent
report, Still Too Fat to Fight, the nonprofit Mission: Readiness, which is run by retired military leaders, found that roughly 25 percent of young
adults ages 17 to 24 are too overweight to qualify for military service and it targeted junk food vending machines in schools as a contributor to this problem.
And while many parents may warn children about strange
adult men, the fact of the matter is that the average
age of most sex offenders is 14 — according to a 2000
report by the Criminal Justice Source Statistics.
In May 1999, the Consumer Product Safety Commission [CPSC] released a warning against cosleeping or putting babies to sleep on
adult beds that was based on a study of death
reports of children under the
age of two who had died from 1980 to 1997.
The
report also revealed that the average cost per Medicaid recipient in 2010 was $ 13,497 for those 65 and older, $ 7,818 for
adults between the
ages of 21 and 64, and $ 2,968 for those under the
age of 21.
For juvenile offenders, the Cuomo - appointed Commission on Youth, Public Safety and Justice is recommending raising the
age of criminal responsibility in New York from 16 to 18, shifting nonviolent offenses for those under 18 to family court, and keeping young people out of
adult jails, WCBS 880's Paul Murnane
reported.
And advocates for older
adults and some city officials say the
reports warn of bigger issues: the coming rise in dementia cases as the city's population
ages and the need to prepare.
Mobility is the most common disability among older Americans: of those
age 65 + with a disability (about 40 % of older
adults), two - thirds
report trouble walking or climbing.
«This morning, the Assembly man in Diaso electoral area
reported at the station that around 6.15, he had a message that a male
adult aged about 46, had been found dead at the outskirts of Modaso, another village about 6 kilometres from Diaso so the Police went to the place.
In April, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
reported for 2013 - 2014 that among
adults ages 18 to 59, 25 percent of men and 20 percent of women had genital infections with HPV types that put them at risk of developing cancer.
Young children's weight predicts their future health, says epidemiologist Ashleigh May, the lead author of the CDC
report: «If they're obese at this
age, they're five times as likely to become obese as
adults.»
Older
adults also tended to be more confident in their answers, but both
age groups
reported greater confidence in the answers they ended up getting right than the ones that they got wrong.
At AAIC 2014, Stephanie Schultz, BSc, and colleagues at the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Institute and the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
reported on the results of a study of 329 cognitively normal middle -
aged adults (mean
age = 60.3 years, 69 % women) enrolled in the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer's Prevention.
Yonas E. Geda, M.D. and colleagues at the Mayo Clinic investigated the relationship between timing of exercise (mid - life / 50 -65 vs. late - life / 70 and above) and risk of new cases of dementia in 280 older
adults (median
age = 81) with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) from the Mayo Clinic Study of
Aging, and
reported on their findings at AAIC 2014.
In the U.S. Langa and colleagues
reported in Alzheimer's & Dementia that the percent of
adults over 70 years of
age with cognitive impairment dropped from 12.2 to 8.7 between 1993 and 2002.
If this is the case, those who migrated as children, where the process of migration can be assumed to be instigated by the parents rather than the child, would
report more health problems in old
age than those who came as
adults.
The percentage of uninsured
adults ages 18 to 64 in Texas declined from 24.8 to 23.5 between September 2013 and March 2014, according to a
report released today by Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and the Episcopal Health Foundation.
The analysis suggests, but does not prove, that consuming DHA and EPA, two omega - 3 fatty acids found in fish, enhanced cognitive flexibility in these
adults in part by beefing up the anterior cingulate cortex, the researchers
report in the journal Frontiers in
Aging Neuroscience.
Marijuana use may result in cardiovascular - related complications — even death — among young and middle -
aged adults, according to a French study
reported in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
Young
adults ages 18 to 25 are the group that has the highest level of tobacco use,
reporting rates of smoking that are nearly 50 percent higher than either high school seniors or
adults over
age 26.
The study had detailed information on participants
reported at baseline recruitment, including self -
reported exercise participation between the
ages of 13 and 19,
adult lifestyle - related factors, and mortality outcomes.
Researchers
reported that at
age 30, coronary heart disease survival was 100 percent in the group of young
adults who received statins from childhood and 93 percent in the affected parents.
When Ladabaum et al grouped respondents to the most recent NHANES survey by race / ethnicity and
age, they found that more than 50 % of the workforce -
aged adults in eight demographic subgroups
reported no leisure - time physical activity.
The
report found that from September 2013 to March 2015, the percentage of uninsured
adult Texans
ages 18 - 64 dropped from 25 to 17 percent.
The average
age of the respondents in Wave 5 was 67, and they
reported an average of 10 missing teeth — normally
adults have 28 plus 4 wisdom teeth in their mouth.
Compared with their nonmusical peers,
adults aged 55 to 76 who had studied music for 4 to 14 years as youngsters had more precise neural timing, even though they hadn't practiced in nearly 40 years, the team
reports today in The Journal of Neuroscience.
From that larger study of
adult Caucasian twins, study authors analyzed data from a sample of 1,790 men, provided through structured clinical interviews that included retrospective
reports of their own drinking as well as their peers» alcohol - related behaviors from adolescence into young adulthood,
ages 12 to 25 years.
In 1998, 2 years after creating Dolly, cloning researcher Ian Wilmut and colleagues at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh
reported that the ends of her chromosomes were shorter than they should be for a newborn sheep, a possible indication that the chromosomes retained the
age of Dolly's
adult progenitor (Science, 28 April 2000, p. 586).
In a collaborative research effort between Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Qi and colleagues analyzed the impact of tooth loss in large studies of
adults,
aged 45 to 69 years, in which participants had
reported on the numbers of natural teeth they had, then in a follow - up questionnaire,
reported recent tooth loss.
In the UK in 2009, around 80 % of
adults over 55 had evidence of gum disease, whilst 40 % of
adults aged over 65 - 74 (and 60 % of those
aged over 75) had less than 21 of their original 32 teeth, with half of them
reporting gum disease before they lost teeth.
The percentage of uninsured
adults ages 18 to 64 in Texas declined from 24.8 to 23.5 between September 2013 and March 2014, according to a
report released April 16, 2014, by the Baker Institute for Public Policy and the Episcopal Health Foundation.
The current study
reports neurogenesis (neuron creation) occurred in the spinal cords of both
adult and
aged (over one - year old) mice of both sexes, although the response was much weaker in the
aged mice, Dr. Zhang said.