Posts Tagged ‘longevity’
Exploiting Technology and Collaboration to Enable Quality Aging
Editor’s Note: This article is excerpted from Longevity Rules: How to Age Well Into the Future, a compendium 0f 34 excellent essays where leading longevity experts help policymakers and the public better understand the aging experience. In the essay below, Joseph Coughlin, the Director of MIT AgeLab, explores the role that technology can play in aging…
Read MoreEver heard of the Longevity Dividend? Perhaps Gray is the New Gold
The Longevity Dividend is a theory that says we hope to intervene scientifically to slow the aging process, which will also delay the onset of age-related diseases. Delaying aging just seven years would slash rates of conditions like cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease and heart disease in half. That’s the longevity part. The dividend comes from the…
Read MoreMetLife Mature Market Institute: Meaning, Purpose and Cognitive Health for a Lifelong Good Life
Increased longevity has generated many questions and much interest in healthy aging and retirement lifestyles over the recent decades. As Americans become educated regarding lifestyle choices that contribute to both physical and mental health, the definition of healthy aging has expanded to include brain health. The notion of retirement as a time of withdrawal from…
Read MoreUpdate: Does Cognitive Training Work?
Here you have the February edition of our monthly newsletter covering cognitive health and brain fitness topics. Please remember that you can subscribe to receive this Newsletter by email, simply by submitting your email at the top of this page. Cognitive training (or structured mental exercise) definitely seems to work — as long as we define…
Read MoreMaking Healthy Choices: Primare Care and Prevention
Hiroshi Komiyama, President of the University of Tokyo and Chairperson of the Global Agenda Council on the Challenges of Gerontology I am a member of, just provided council members with a brief update of his participation in the recent World Economic Forum. Part of the proceedings are public — you may enjoy reading this panel write-up…
Read MoreHourglass: Biology of Aging blog carnival
Welcome to the 8th edition of Hourglass, the blog carnival devoted to biogerontology. Enjoy! — Use It or Lose It Existence is Wonderful, by Anne C. Neither A Transhumanist Nor a “Pessimist”, And That’s Okay “I can’t survive cognitively in environments that force everything into false dichotomies, and nobody should feel hurt, slighted, or bitter because of my…
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