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Conferences, Meetings, & Workshops
- Meeting on Creativity, Aging, and Health - Society for the Arts in Healthcare
April 2004 - Bruce L. Miller, M.D., who is the clinical director of UCSF’s Memory and Aging Center, spoke on frontotemporal dementia and the neuropsychology of creativity at an April 21 workshop on creativity, aging, and health sponsored by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the Society for the Arts in Healthcare (SAH).
- Vital Visionaries Collaboration Report of Findings
April 2004 - In March and April 2004, the National Institute on Aging (NIA) sponsored the Vital Visionaries Collaboration to encourage interaction between older people and first-year medical students, to foster improved understanding and appreciation of older people by medical students and to awaken older people to their creative possibilities.
- Dietary Supplement Use in the Elderly
January 2003 - Dietary supplements, as sold in the United States, encompass a wide range of products, which include vitamins, minerals, amino acids, herbs, botanicals, and other substances. The frequency of use of dietary supplements among the elderly is high compared with the general population.
- NIA Panel on the Characterization of Participants in Studies of Exceptional Survival in Humans
August 2002 - Exceptional individuals whose productive life span greatly exceeds the average have long been subjects of fascination. Understanding the factors that contribute to exceptional longevity and/or exceptional “health span” (survival without disease or disability) could lead to better means to maintain health and prevent disease throughout life.
- GSA Annual Scientific Meeting Highlights
November 2001 - Highlights from the NIA Symposium: Research
Initiatives, Funding and Training Opportunities at the National Institute
on Aging. Presented at the 54th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological
Society of America: “2001 - A Gerontological Odyssey: Exploring Science,
Society and Spirituality”.
- Exploring the Role of
Cancer Centers for Integrating Aging and Cancer Research
June 2001 - A report on a joint NCI-NIA Workshop convened
to identify high priority research at the complex interface of aging
and cancer, across a broad scientific spectrum.
- The Advisory Panel on Exceptional
Longevity Report
June 2001 - A report of the National Institute on Aging Advisory
Panel on Exceptional Longevity (APEL) that includes recommendations
on the feasibility of studies to identify genetic factors and other
factors that might interact with genetic factors that contribute to
exceptional longevity (EL).
- NIA Workshop on Primate
Models of the Menopause
January 2001 - A report of the NIA Advisory Board on the Workshop
on Primate Models of the Menopause, including recommendations for
research opportunities and resource requirements to further develop
non-human primate models of menopause.
- Aging and Genetic Epidemiology
Working Group Report
November 1999 - A report from the Aging and Genetic Epidemiology
Working Group, convened by the National Institute on Aging to identify
research opportunities for research on genetic epidemiology of aging-related
outcomes.
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