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| http://www.stronghealth.com/services/seniors/Aging/Attitude.cfm, Free
A brief but helpful page that dispels concerns about medical care issues related to aging. |
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| The authors analyze how the effect of body weight on health changes with age. |
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| Simon & Schuster, 2006, $15.00
http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org
A well researched book for any woman navigating the changes of menopause and midlife. It dispels myths, provides practical information and inspires women to become socially and politically involved to create a better future for women's health and health care. |
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| http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a908220825~db=all~order=page
The authors found that increases in frailty, as they measure it, result in increases in mortality five times as large. |
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| U.S. Administration on Aging, 2008, Free
http://www.aoa.gov/press/observances/Healthyaging/healthy_aging.aspx
A round-up of state efforts to promoted healthy aging. |
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| http://psychsocgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/content/66B/1/75.abstract
Crimmins and Beltrán-Sánchez find that reductions in mortality rates have not reduced morbidity rates, which is to say, we spend just as much time being ill or immobile nowadays as people did in the past. |
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| Grote, along with several experienced financial planners, offers advice about starting the family conversation, coordinating care, providing long-term financing, advance directives, and how planners should be compensated for these services. |
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| W.W. Norton, 2008, $19.95
http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Strategies-Positive-Norton-Professional/dp/0393705234/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272977093&sr=8-6
Hill provides practical strategies for developing and maintaining a healthy, productive attitude and lifestyle, despite the diminishment that aging brings in physical and mental abilities. |
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| http://www.nih.gov/news/health/jun2011/nhgri-13.htm, Free
This press release announces research that links normal aging with premature aging (progeria), and is another step forward in understanding why we age. |
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| http://gerontologist.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol49/issueS1/index.dtl
This and other articles in the same issue discuss the Healthy Brain Project, a large study across various socioeconomic groups, and also discuss early results from analysis of the data |
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| http://biomedgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/content/66A/2/179.abstract
Le Couteur and Simpson suggest that some supposedly detrimental changes accompanying old age, such as high blood pressure, obesity, and metabolic syndrome, are in fact evolutionary adaptations to prolong life after reproduction in humans. |
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| http://biomedgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/content/65A/7/693.extract
The authors use recent research to suggest that while previous orthodoxy about aging (such as the supposed beneficial effects of anti-oxidants) is doubtful, newer and better approaches may be indicated. |
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| http://biomedgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/content/65A/8/792.abstract
The authors cast doubt on the theory that telomere length, which declines with age, is a proper indicator of biological aging. |
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| http://biomed.gerontologyjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/63/9/936
Nakamura and Miyao report that aging women had relatively lower functional capabilities compared with men, but the rate of aging was slower than that of men, suggesting that these differences might present both disadvantages and advantages for women with regard to health and longevity.” |
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| http://biomedgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/64A/8/860
The authors find that telomere length may not be a strong biomarker of survival in older individuals, but it may be an informative biomarker of healthy aging. |
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| http://www.realage.com/, Free (registration required)
Estimates your 'real age' based on your lifestyle,health, and other factors. |
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| http://www.prb.org/journalists/webcasts/2008/mortalityandaging.aspx, Free
Lee discusses his research on trends in mortality and aging. |
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| Dell, 1999, Out of print
http://www.amazon.com/Successful-Aging-John-Wallis-Rowe/dp/0440508630/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1272984313&sr=1-1-fkmr0#_
Rowe and Kahn rely on research (now dated but still mostly pertinent) indicating that the influence of genetics shrinks as you get older, while social and physical habits become more influential. They explain what steps you should take to make sure these factors work in your favor. |
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| http://www.prb.org/Publications/PopulationBulletins/2008/aging.aspx
The authors observe that, with advances in health and life expectancy, measuring population aging presents a problem to demographers because the meaning of the number of years lived has changed. New measures described in this report take life expectancy differences into account |
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| http://biomedgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/content/65A/8/789.full
Editorial on the use of telomere length as an indicator of biological aging, and what kind of further research might be needed. |
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| Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, January 2010, Free
http://www.demogr.mpg.de/papers/working/wp-2010-001.pdf
Sholz and Schulz studied the life expectancies in Germany, and how many years are spent in long-term care. Men spend significantly less time in long-term care, but both men and women had higher increases in long-term care periods than in overall longevity from 1999 to 2005. |
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| http://www.palgrave-journals.com/sth/journal/v9/n1/abs/sth20106a.html
Yiu Tung Suen questions the “misery perspective” generally used to understand gender, ageing and health, where elderly women are considered to be more ill than elderly man. His study finds some truth to it for those born between 1880 and 1920, but not later. |
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| http://biomedgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/index.dtl
Publishes articles on all areas of the biological and medical aspects of aging. |
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The Empire State Building, 350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 801, New York, NY 10118
Telephone:212-308-1414
Fax:212-832-8646
info@americangeriatrics.org
http://www.americangeriatrics.org/
A not-for-profit organization of over 6,700 health professionals devoted to improving the health, independence and quality of life of all older people. |
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| http://www.geronurseonline.org/
The official geriatric nursing Web site of the American Nurses Association (ANA), developed through the Nurse Competence in Aging initiative, to provide information regarding nursing care of older adults. |
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| National Opinion Research Center, Free
http://www.norc.org/News/Consequences+of+Winning+the+War+on+Aging.htm
What if scientific breakthroughs signifi-cantly reduced the medical effects of aging – would there be a population explosion? L.A. Gavrilov and N.S. Gavrilova have done the math, and they say no. |
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| http://biomedgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/content/65A/11/1193.abstract
Hamerman offers a specific analysis of how two related professions may or may not successfully cooperate. |
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| http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1758-5899.2010.00053.x/pdf, Free`
This article is a high-level summary of the global aging issue, which the authors do not see as necessarily a crisis, though they identify areas that need attention, and they acknowledge that we should expect larger problems in developing countries than in developed ones. |
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| National Academies P`ress, 2010, $18.90
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12852
Smith discusses increases in longevity and improvements in health worldwide, and how we can respond to the challenges that these trends will present. |
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| http://biomedgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/64A/2/205
West and Bergman argue that aging research is at a stage where it could benefit greatly from a more intense engagement with the perspectives emphasized by systems biology and complexity science. A more integrated, systematic approach is needed. |
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| http://jag.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/28/6/702
Dillaway and Byrnes observe that we need to be wary of adopting “successful aging” terminology without considering, and expanding our understanding of, the political motivations and results that accompany it. |