On June 11, 2025, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a slate of eight new members^[1] to serve on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on national vaccine policy.

The announcement, made on the social media platform X, comes two days after Kennedy removed all 17 of the serving committee members^[2]. Kennedy called their replacements “a bold...

Older adults diagnosed with dementia lose their ability to assess how well they manage their finances^[1], according to a recent study I co-authored in The Gerontologist. In comparison, people of the same age who don’t have dementia are aware of their financial abilities – and this awareness improves over time.

For our study, we used data from over 2,000 adults in the U.S. age 65 and older, collected during a long-term...