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

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (139 pages) 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780309115605 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Aging -- Prevention -- Congresses.<br/>Age distribution (Demography) -- Congresses.<br/>Bioengineering -- Congresses.<br/>Biomedical engineering -- Congresses.<br/>United States -- Population -- Health aspects -- Congresses.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RA776.75 -- .N38 2008eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>613