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The future of human healthspan demography, evolution, medicine, and bioengineering : task group summaries
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Online
Details
- Creator
- The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2008
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (139 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781281726797, 1281726796, 0309115604, 9780309115605, 0309178223, 9786611726799, 0309115590, 9780309115599, 6611726799
- OCLC
- ocn560530812, ocn923278910
- "Conference, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center, Irvine, California, November 14-16, 2007."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- English
- 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