Alan Gibbons

Oct 4, 2024 | news.uci.edu | Alan Gibbons |UC Irvine

“I’m hopeful that the small things we do will make a bigger impact,” says Joleah Lamb. Hope is the most obvious takeaway from any discussion with Lamb, director of UC Irvine’s Healthy Oceans & People Lab. Her work is about finding connections among disease, people and the environment, specifically oceans. Trained as a coral reef biologist, Lamb was part of a project in Indonesia looking at disease in corals. Everyone involved got very sick – dysentery and even typhoid fever.

Apr 2, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Alan Gibbons |Natalie Babbitt |Chad Morris |Shelly Brown

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Aug 31, 2023 | orangecoast.com | Alan Gibbons |Astgik Khatchatryan |Chelsea Raineri |Barbara Neal Varma

EXERCISE“This is when we’re really concerned with mobility and balance. You hear about people falling quite a bit. Balance requires practice. You have to work on your balance. You have visual and audio changes in your 70s and 80s, so your senses aren’t as sharp as they used to be. We encourage patients to continue to do exercise that they feel safe doing: tai chi, chair yoga. All those things that you’ve hopefully been doing—stretching and strengthening—are even more critical now.

Aug 25, 2023 | orangecoast.com | Alan Gibbons |Astgik Khatchatryan |Chelsea Raineri |Barbara Neal Varma

SKIN“The main concern with patients in their 60s and beyond is starting to see more of a lack of hydration and declined moisture retention. There are some good products and creams to help with that, but it also helps to make lifestyle changes. Keep baths or showers shorter than what you’d normally do and reduce the temperature of the water so it’s not so hot. When indoors, use a humidifier when the air feels dry.

Aug 22, 2023 | orangecoast.com | Alan Gibbons |Astgik Khatchatryan |Chelsea Raineri |Barbara Neal Varma

MENTAL WELLNESS“During this time, the default social network used to be meeting the parents of your children’s friends. That doesn’t happen anymore. Now you just text each other. We’re isolated from the families. I never meet the parents anymore; I used to know the parents of all my kids’ friends. This might also be the sandwich generation, where you’re in a dual caretaking role. People are starting families later in life now. Career-oriented people are delaying having families.