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Researchers warn of a looming health crisis in the wake of rising mortgage delinquencies and home foreclosures. In this video report, Dawn E. Alley, Ph.D, assistant professor of epidemiology and public health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, discusses the findings of the first long-term survey of the impact the current housing crisis is having on older Americans. The study, published on Oct. 20, 2011, in the American Journal of Public Health, focused on adults over 50 and found high rates of depression among those behind in their mortgage payments and a higher likelihood of making unhealthy financial tradeoffs regarding food and needed prescription medications.
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University of Maryland School of Medicine
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