Mes: agosto 2019

Older adults who look after their grandchildren might also be doing themselves a favor. New research suggests that it could be linked to a longer life for the caregivers. The study, published in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior, found that grandparents who helped care for their grandchildren lived an average of five years longer than those who did not. The international group of researchers also found a similar effect among seniors without grandchildren who cared for kids outside their own family or provided assistance to people in other ways. Older childless adults who provided childcare lived an average of three years longer. Study author Ralph Hertwig, director of the Center for Adaptive Rationality at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, notes that the benefits grandchildren receive from being cared for by their grandparents is well established — but there’s been less research on the other side of the equation, what it means for the grandparents. He points to a 2009 U.S. Census Bureau report that found 2.5 million grandparents were responsible for most of the basic needs of one or more grandchildren who lived in their household. Similarly, according to a 2009 study of more than 35,000 Europeans, 58 percent of grandmothers and 49 percent of grandfathers reported providing some care for their grandchild over the course of a year. “Now, rather than only focusing on...

Seoul broadcaster KBS television showed live coverage Tuesday of Oh Eun-sun reaching the summit of Annapurna and 포커 칩 affixing a South Korean flag to the peak. She beat a Spanish rival for the right to call herself the first woman to climb all 14 Himalayan peaks over 8,000 meters, or 26,247 feet, above sea level. Oh was being chased by Edurne Pasaban of Spain, who is also seeking to become the first woman to scale all 14 peaks. The 36-year-old has only the 26,330-foot-high Mount Shisha Pangma left to scale. Pasaban has questioned whether her South Korean rival climbed to the top of Mount Kanchenjunga, the world’s third-highest, last May. Blackyak’s Park dismissed the accusation as groundless. Oh missed the chance to reach the peak of Annapurna last year because of bad weather. Snow and wind stopped her from making the final ascent over the weekend. She has described mountain climbing as “a sort of addiction” and her destiny. “As long as I set my goal to become the world’s first woman to conquer the world’s 14 highest peaks, I will go to all lengths to achieve it,” she said in an interview with The Korea Times in Seoul in February. Before embarking on the expedition, she tried to refrain from drinking alcohol, believing that there is a spiritual entity determining whether or not to allow a climber...