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Feature Article, Newsletters
Do We Have to Age the Way We Age? Dan Perry Takes This Question to the TEDMED Stage
TEDMED is most known for its annual conference--a medical spin-off from the TED conference where people come to share big ideas and foster new ones. But TEDMED is also a community of people who are all passionate about the future of health and medicine, but in amazingly different ways.
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Alliance Views
Super Agers: Sharing Their Secrets
A new website from Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University—
SuperAgers.com—highlights the findings from more than a decade of aging research and features some of the centenarians that shared their secrets, and their DNA, for this seminal project.
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Living Legend
Alice Thomas: Walking a Non-Traditional Path
At 79 years old, Alice Thomas is definitely not your traditional law student, but all her life she’s walked a fairly non-traditional path. Leaving home at just 16 years old, Thomas worked a variety of jobs to support herself including a drug-store waitress, a typist, and even an elevator operator. She eventually found herself in the construction industry despite the fact that it was and continues to be a “man’s world.”
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Science in the Spotlight
What is Aging Research? Defining the Field
How exactly does one define aging research? It turns out that finding agreement on a single definition is not as easy as it seems.
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Alliance Views
Fashion Savvy Seniors Help Redefine Old Age
Today’s seniors are blowing old-age stereotypes out of the water and redefining what exactly it means to be “old.” This is a generation that can expect to live longer than past generations, tends to be better educated and more financially secure, and has a long history of independence. We’re already seeing changes in the lifestyles and typical images of seniors, and with the baby boom generation approaching their senior years, we’re sure to see even more.
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Science in the Spotlight
Long Living in the Blue Zones
You’ve probably heard that Americans are living longer than ever—in fact the average baby born today can expect to live to be 78 years old. But did you know there are close to 50 other countries with even longer life expectancies?
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Science in the Spotlight
Sirtuins, Famine, and the Fountain of Youth
There’s been a lot of buzz lately about a “red wine” drug that could be a fountain of youth—combating the effects of aging and age-related disease. The drug, along with other promising breakthroughs, is being developed by Sirtris Pharmaceuticals—a company recently purchased by drug giant GlaxoSmithKline. The drug is based on resveratrol, a chemical found in red wine that activates important sirtuin genes and has extended healthy life in animal studies.
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Document
Going for the Longevity Dividend:
An International Perspective
September 2006
| James Goodwin
Related topics:
Longevity
View James Goodwin's presentation slides from the Alliance's event - Going for the Longevity Dividend: Scientific Goals for the World's Aging Populations
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Calorie Restriction Extends Life Span Universally
September 2006
| Leonard Guarante
Related topics:
Longevity
View Leonard Guarante's presentation slides from the Alliance's event - Going for the Longevity Dividend: Scientific Goals for the World's Aging Populations
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The Longevity Dividend:
International Perspectives
September 2006
| Alex Kalache
Related topics:
Longevity
View Alex Kalache's presentations slides from the Alliance's event - Going for the Longevity Dividend: Scientific Goals for the World's Aging Populations
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Document
Beyond Technology:
Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness
September 2006
| Stephen N. Austad & S. Jay Olshansky
Related topics:
Longevity
View Jay Olshansky's presentation slides from the Alliance's event - Going for the Longevity Dividend: Scientific Goals for the World's Aging Populations
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In Pursuit of the Longevity Dividend
March 2006
| S. Jay Olshansky, Daniel Perry, Richard A. Miller, Robert N. Butler
Related topics:
Longevity
"Imagine an intervention, such as a pill, that could significantly reduce your risk of cancer. Imagine an intervention that could reduce your risk of stroke, or dementia, or arthritis. Now imagine an intervention that does all of these things, and at the same time reduces your risk of everything else undesirable about growing older: including heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer and Parkinson disease, hip fractures, osteoporosis, sensory impairments, and sexual dysfunction. Such a pill may sound like fantasy, but aging interventions already do this in animal models. And many scientists believe that such an intervention is a realistically achievable goal for people. People already place a high value on both quality and length of life, which is why children are immunized against infectious diseases. In the same spirit, we suggest that a concerted effort to slow aging begin immediately - because it will save and extend lives, improve health, and create wealth."
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Document
The Best Minds in the Business:
SAGE Crossroads Trading Cards
Use the SAGE Expert Cards as a quick reference to some of the nation's leaders in the science of aging, research, and policy. The SAGE Expert Cards will introduce you to people who are shaping and influencing this exciting field and connect you with the important work that they are doing.
This first edition pack includes 50 cards. Each card includes a photograph, quick summary of the researcher's work, and essential information such as specialty and favorite gene.
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Science in the Spotlight
Living to 100 and Beyond
First-born daughters are three times more likely to survive to age 100 than their latter-born sisters; and first-born sons are twice as likely to become centenarians as those sons born fourth, fifth, or sixth in the family, according to a new study prepared for the Society of Actuaries (SOA).
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Alliance Views
Longevity in the Short-Term
At the Alliance for Aging Research, we are committed to a vision of healthy longevity for millions of Americans, made possible through advances in science and technology.
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Science in the Spotlight
The Secret Genes of Centenarians
If you have lived beyond the age of 100, countless people may ask you for your secret to long life.
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Science in the Spotlight
Here's to a Long, Long Life with Health, and Happiness, Too
If you could swallow a little yellow pill and live to be 120 years old, would you?
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Get Mad Column
Leadership, Commitment, Hope: The 21st Century Challenge
The 20th century witnessed amazing advances in human health and longevity thanks to public health measures and medical research breakthroughs.
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Feature Article
Do You Know Your Life Expectancy?
For those of you familiar with the Alliance for Aging Research website, you may have already experienced our most popular interactive feature…the "Living to 100" quiz, a tool that calculates your longevity potential.
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Feature Article
Adding Luster to Your Golden Years
Exercise may well hold the key to the fountain of youth.
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Feature Article
Centenarians- the Ultimate Survivors!
Living to 100 may well represent the ultimate game of "Survivor."
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Living Legend
Dr. Robert Butler: Leading the Longevity Revolution
At 74, Dr. Robert Butler doesn't think about retiring.
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Science in the Spotlight
How We Age: Is It in Our Genes? An interview with Caleb Finch, PhD
The role of genetics in determining the quality and length of human life is a million-dollar question right now.
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Science in the Spotlight
Regenerative Medicine: Paving the Way for a Healthier Old Age
Over the next few decades, the new field of "regenerative medicine" promises to fundamentally alter the way diseases, especially those affected by the aging process, are approached and treated.
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Science in the Spotlight
Can We Live Longer by Eating Fewer Calories?
The jury is still out on whether caloric restriction can prolong human life or prevent age-related diseases, but the results of recent studies with rodents and rhesus monkeys are moving us closer to a verdict. Richard Weindruch, Ph.D., professor of medicine at University of Wisconsin-Madison and one of the nation's top caloric restriction researchers, shares some thoughts about this promising area of research.
