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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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| 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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| 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://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.prb.org/journalists/webcasts/2008/mortalityandaging.aspx, Free
Lee discusses his research on trends in mortality and aging. |
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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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| 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://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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| 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. |