The Future of Human Healthspan : Demography, Evolution, Medicine, and Bioengineering: Task Group Summaries.
The Future of Human Healthspan : Demography, Evolution, Medicine, and Bioengineering: Task Group Summaries.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (139 pages)
Title -- The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative -- Preface -- Contents -- Conference Summary -- Task Group Summaries -- Enhancing the Functional Status of the Future Elderly -- Design New Research Paradigms to Assess Healthspan, Its Enhancement, and Prolongation in Experimental Research Animals -- Effects of Exercise on Human Healthspan -- The Relationship Between Demographic Mortality Rates, Aging, and Functional Human Healthspan -- Changes in Social Contexts to Enhance Functional Status of the Elderly -- Develop Technological Interventions to Overcome Barriers to Independence and Community Participation -- Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Biological Aging: The Roles of Nature, Nurture, and Chance in the Maintenance of Human Healthspan -- Inflammation's Effects on Aging -- Appendixes -- Preconference Webcast Tutorials -- Agenda -- Participants.
9780309115605
Aging -- Prevention -- Congresses.
Age distribution (Demography) -- Congresses.
Bioengineering -- Congresses.
Biomedical engineering -- Congresses.
United States -- Population -- Health aspects -- Congresses.
Electronic books.
RA776.75 -- .N38 2008eb
613
Title -- The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative -- Preface -- Contents -- Conference Summary -- Task Group Summaries -- Enhancing the Functional Status of the Future Elderly -- Design New Research Paradigms to Assess Healthspan, Its Enhancement, and Prolongation in Experimental Research Animals -- Effects of Exercise on Human Healthspan -- The Relationship Between Demographic Mortality Rates, Aging, and Functional Human Healthspan -- Changes in Social Contexts to Enhance Functional Status of the Elderly -- Develop Technological Interventions to Overcome Barriers to Independence and Community Participation -- Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Biological Aging: The Roles of Nature, Nurture, and Chance in the Maintenance of Human Healthspan -- Inflammation's Effects on Aging -- Appendixes -- Preconference Webcast Tutorials -- Agenda -- Participants.
9780309115605
Aging -- Prevention -- Congresses.
Age distribution (Demography) -- Congresses.
Bioengineering -- Congresses.
Biomedical engineering -- Congresses.
United States -- Population -- Health aspects -- Congresses.
Electronic books.
RA776.75 -- .N38 2008eb
613