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...Putting the public on notice that it faces a sharp diminution of critical social programs based on data which will need to be correct 10, 40, and 75 years from now is an example of why citizens and taxpayers often ask how the government bases financial decisions on opinions offered by people who spend years in windowless rooms. In those rooms, they evaluate data and change it as they get new pieces of financial information, some of which requires subjective interpretation. Economists and actuaries do not like being told that their forecasts are likely to be less accurate than those...
...Taxpayers resent being told that any human can know how many angels can stand on the head of a pin. They are alarmed that this information could then be used to deprive them of a social safety net in the future or that they will be required to pay a greater portion of their wages into the federal system. The subject that has not been raised with the announcement of the new projection about the Social Security and Medicare funds is what government expenses might be eliminated to save benefits from the two programs decades from now. People would like...
...Social Security and Medicate data comes at a sensitive time. People who fear that they will soon be out of work and have friends, relatives, and neighbors who are out of work are being told that the only way that the recession will end is if the government buys its way out of economic trouble. With unemployment rising, the math that taxpayers face is that fewer people will have to pay more to keep the nation from a depression and worsening unemployment. In addition, they are being told that the future of American social services is also in their hands...
...disease and cognition. Researchers recorded which of the patients developed dementia in the six-year study period, then isolated the risk factors that appeared to make dementia more likely. Many factors were considered: age, genetic risk factors, mental health status, depression, physical fitness, alcohol consumption, fine motor skills and social support. In the end, only a handful of factors, arranged on a 15-point scale, emerged as being highly predictive of dementia...
...what should high scorers do? For one, they can build a rich social network of friends and family, and engage aggressively in ways that challenge their mental as well as physical capabilities. "I truly believe that a lifestyle that incorporates greater socialization and greater use of the mind is what is most important for reducing risk of Alzheimer's," says Nixon, who is also director of the Center of Excellence on Brain Aging at New York University Langone Medical Center. And if this screen can inform more people about their risk of developing dementia - and encourage younger folks to start...