Eight Illinois entities received 2024 AARP Community Challenge grants, totaling just over $60,000. The grants fund projects aimed at improving public spaces, housing, transit and civic engagement, among other goals. Nationally, AARP awarded $3.8 million in grants for 343 projects this year.
Researchers in Arizona are exploring a new strategy for Alzheimer's disease: taking an existing technology known as deep brain stimulation and seeing if it can slow progression of the disease.