Healthy Aging and Longevity

In a climate where many unsubstantiated claims are made, it is
essential to have access to the best evidence-based knowledge on
how to extend healthy life expectancy. Researchers, healthcare
practitioners, and policy makers come together annually at the
International Research Center for Healthy Ageing and Longevity to
discuss, debate, and exchange ideas, and the proceedings of the
most recent conference is contained in the chapters of this
volume.



Now, more than ever, a critical need exists for the development
of appropriate policies so that aging is seen as a resource and not
as an isolating and segregating experience. Solid research
elucidating the processes of aging must be translated into
strategies for clinical practice in order to respond to the needs
of an aging population.

The full spectrum of proven and potential aging interventions
including pharmaceutical, nutritional, clinical, educational,
policy, complementary, preventive, and restorative means were
explored at this international meeting. The topics covered in this
volume include the following:

(1) Nutritional interventions in aging and age-associated
disease, both diet and supplements;

(2) dementia in an aging population;

(3) the new caring -- financial and asset management and substitute
decision-making by and for older people;

(4) how we improve the quality of research into healthy
aging;

(5) promoting balance and preventing falls in an aging
population;

(6) population aging in developing countries;

(7) promoting health and well-being of the older community;

(8) hormone and metabolic interventions in aging;

(9) community attitudes and approaches towards human life
extension;

(10) respecting the elders in our care;

(11) the biology of healthy aging and longevity;

(12) basic science and mechanisms of aging and longevity;

(13) sustaining optimal aging -- inner strength and mutual
support;

(14) wellbeing, retirement planning and expectations of the
baby-boomer generation;

(15) natural and complementary approaches to age-associated
disorders;

(16) psychosocial predictors of healthy aging and longevity --
lessons from longitudinal studies;

(17) healthy longevity -- lessons learned from the world's
longest-lived people;

(18) the aging brain;

(19) baby-boomer work force participation;

(20) quality of care and quality of life for the elderly;

(21) frontiers of knowledge in biogerontology;

(22) behavioural and social interventions for healthy aging and
longevity.

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