{"id":61957,"date":"2023-03-02T09:31:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T14:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/?p=61957"},"modified":"2026-01-30T15:18:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:18:53","slug":"medical-news-today-prof-miller-food-insufficiency-cognitive-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/medical-news-today-prof-miller-food-insufficiency-cognitive-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical News Today: Professor Miller on Food Insufficiency &#038; Cognitive Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/faster-cognitive-decline-linked-with-food-insufficiency-in-new-study\">article<\/a> by Medical News Today, Daniel P. Miller, an associate professor at Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW), weighs in on a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0022316622132578\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study<\/a> about the relationship\u00a0between food insufficiency and cognitive decline among older adults. <span>The study found that food insufficiency among older adults was linked to cognitive declines, and that these declines were steeper among those who were eligible but did not participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). <span class=\"ContentPasted0\">While Miller noted the importance of these findings, he also emphasized the differences between food insufficiency \u2013 the focus of the study \u2013 and food insecurity, which\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"ContentPasted0\">is routinely measured by the USDA and<\/span><span class=\"ContentPasted0\">\u00a0is related to but different than insufficiency.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpted from <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/faster-cognitive-decline-linked-with-food-insufficiency-in-new-study#Tying-a-lack-of-food-to-cognitive-function\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>\u201cFaster cognitive decline linked with food insufficiency in new study\u201d<\/em><\/a> <em>(Medical News Today, 2\/26\/23) by <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/authors\/robby-berman\"><em>Robby Berman<\/em><\/a><em>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/ssw\/files\/2020\/05\/quotation-mark-clip-art-quotation-mark-clip-art-eLnGgo-clipart-e1677766895998.jpg\" alt=\"quotation mark\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-47976 size-full\" \/>Unlike food insecurity, which is a condition of hardship where families cannot get the right kinds of food on the table because of limited [money] or other financial resources, food insufficiency is just a statement about not having enough food to eat.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">[Dr. Miller] noted that the current study was primarily concerned with food insufficiency rather than food insecurity in its classic sense [and] put most of the blame for food insecurity on economic hardship. He pointed out that older adults on a fixed income in times of rising costs, including food and medicine, are at the greatest risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/faster-cognitive-decline-linked-with-food-insufficiency-in-new-study\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/profile\/daniel-p-miller\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daniel P. Miller<\/a> is an expert in food insecurity, nutrition assistance programs, and child and family poverty. His research centers on relationships between policy and the well being of children and parents, and aims to provide actionable evidence for policymakers. In addition to his role as associate professor, Miller is director of BUSSW\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/academics\/phd-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PhD in Social Work Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/profile\/daniel-p-miller\/\">Learn More About Prof. Miller\u2019s Research Here<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article by Medical News Today, Daniel P. Miller, an associate professor at Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW), weighs in on a recent study about the relationship\u00a0between food insufficiency and cognitive decline among older adults. The study found that food insufficiency among older adults was linked to cognitive declines, and that these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14869,"featured_media":61978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7514,7521,7427,7440,4057],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61957"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76197,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61957\/revisions\/76197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}