[HTML][HTML] Centenarian studies: important contributors to our understanding of the aging process and longevity

DC Willcox, BJ Willcox, LW Poon - Current gerontology and …, 2010 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In the course of the next 10 years, say the watchers of consumer trends, a new generation—
Generation C—will emerge. Born after 1990, they are referred to as “digital natives,” now …

Anti-aging medicine: the history: life extension and history: the continual search for the fountain of youth

C Haber - The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
The search for longevity is hardly new. Before recent times, advocates for longevity fell into
two general time periods. From the 16th century to the 18th century, individuals worked to …

Centenarians: Health and frailty

B Forette - Longevity: To the limits and beyond, 1997 - Springer
The number of centenarians is rapidly growing. In France, their estimated number was 200
in 1953 and over 3000 in 1989 when the IPSEN study was iniHated. They are expected to …

Introduction: Anti-Aging Medicine: The Hype and the Reality—Part I

SJ Olshansky, L Hayflick, TT Perls - The Journals of Gerontology …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Journal of Gerontology: BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Copyright 2004 by The Gerontological
Society of America 2004, Vol. 59A, No. 6, 513–514 movement and efforts to discredit the …

The trials and tribulations of studying the oldest old

LW Poon, TT Perls - Annual review of gerontology and geriatrics, 2007 - books.google.com
This introductory chapter is designed to provide readers with an appreciation of centenarian
research in three areas. First, given the colloquial interest of who are the longest-living …

Healthy ageing, but what is health?

SIS Rattan - Biogerontology, 2013 - Springer
Ageing occurs in spite of complex pathways of maintenance and repair. There is no “enemy
within”, which has the specific evolution-selected function to cause ageing and death. This …

[PDF][PDF] The Next Half-Century of Aging Research–and Thoughts for the Past

VW Marshall - Journal of Gerontoiogy: SOCIAL SCİENCES, 1995 - academia.edu
ANY Canadian and American workers have lost their jobs because of the North American
Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). There has been a shift of Canadian jobs to the United …

Aging: The Reality: Demography of Human Supercentenarians

LS Coles - The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
An international committee of demographers has created a carefully documented list of
worldwide living supercentenarians (≥ 110 years old) that has been published by the Los …

Pursuing the longevity dividend: scientific goals for an aging world

SJ Olshansky, D Perry, RA Miller… - Annals of the New York …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The aging of humanity is about to experience a radical change as the demographic
transformation to an older world is approaching its final stage. In recent decades, scientists …

Living longer, aging better: aging research comes of age

T Wetle - JAMA, 1997 - jamanetwork.com
The study of aging is not what it used to be. In 1974, when the National Institute on Aging
(NIA) was created as part of the National Institutes of Health, gerontology was a young …