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The Future of Human Healthspan : Demography, Evolution, Medicine, and Bioengineering: Task Group Summaries.

Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (139 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780309115605
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Future of Human HealthspanDDC classification:
  • 613
LOC classification:
  • RA776.75 -- .N38 2008eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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