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Seven Deadly Myths: Uncovering the Facts About the High Cost of the Last Year of Life

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This report tests some of the most common myths surrounding the financial and medical impact of end-of-life care, separating fact from fiction to show what really happens for most people during their last years of life.

The marketing problem of life extension technologies

Scientific Roadmap to Control Aging

Scientific Roadmap to Control Aging

Life Extension Express™ ebook

Extending the human life span: social policy and social ethics

Fertility Is Declining

Longevity Is Increasing Longevity has increased significantly almost everywhere in the world, with especially dramatic gains in developing regions (Exhibit 2). Life expectancy worldwide increased from 46 years in 1955 to 66 in 2005, with an increase to75 projected for 2050. Since 1950, developing countries have enjoyed a 23 year gain in life expectancy, from 41 to 64, with continued gains to 74 projected for 2050.

1991 – In a major report “Extending Life, Enhancing Life, a National Research Agenda on Aging”, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) calls for the establishment of at least 10 Centers of Excellence to undertake the multi-disciplinary study of aging.

February 2006 - The Buck Institute launches the public phase of its first capital campaign to raise funds for a lab expansion project. Dr. Jan Vijg, internationally-renowned aging/cancer researcher joins the Institute as a faculty member.

September 2007 - The Institute is awarded a $25 million "Roadmap" award from  the NIH to establish a new field of research called "Geroscience", which will focus on the intersection of aging and chronic disease. It is one of only nine "Roadmap" awards granted in the country and is designed to address critical health issues that have not responded to traditional research

"Survey Finds Surprising Results With Research Study Participants" discusses the concerns of participating in clinical research and how KLRI protects the welfare of study participants

"Looking Back on 2006 and Looking Forward to 2007" reviews KLRI's accomplishments in 2006 and plans for 2007.

Director's Message: KLRI's Research Agenda, Today and Where to Next?

A mini review on KLRI's annual fundraiser, Enlightened Age Forum. Lighting the Path to Healthy Aging, Frontdoors, December 2007

A preview of KLRI's annual fundraiser, Enlightened Age Forum. Kronos Forum Will Feature Carmona, Arizona Repubic, September 29, 2007

A Q&A format profile of KLRI. Plan a Long, Healthy Life, Frontdoors, April 2007

In responding to population ageing, the Australian Government takes a whole-of-government perspective across superannuation and retirement income support, workforce, housing, social inclusion and life long education, as well as medical, health and aged care services

A Capitol Hill Symposium & Luncheon September 12, 2006 Hart Senate Office Building, #902 At this international gathering organized by the Alliance for Aging Research, prominent scientists called for governments and health care organizations worldwide to invest in the extension of healthy human life in order to produce a "Longevity Dividend" for nations with aging populations.

Read the statement released by the group of more than 90 scientists.

III. International Perspectives Alex Kalache, Director, Ageing and Health Program, World Health Organization (WHO) - SLIDES James Goodwin, PhD, Head of Research, Help the Aged, London, England - SLIDES

Anti-aging research is scandalously under-funded.  In the US, a vast proportion of the funding doled out by the National Institute of Aging is given to research on Alzheimer's disease. According to one estimate (from circa 2004), only about 0.02% of the money spent by the National Institutes of Health (of which the NIA is part) is spent on fundamental aging research.

The more we understand about the biochemical processes involved in senescence the more we find that they look like disease processes. The accumulation of lysosomal aggregates and amyloid plaques, extracellular protein-protein cross-linking, nuclear and mitochondrial mutations, cell atrophy, cell senescence, and cell loss without replacement: these processes may all be implicated in both pathology and senescence.   At the level of genetics and biochemistry, there simply does not seem to be any meaningful distinction between "processes predisposing to or constituting disease" and "normal aging".

Aging is not an evolutionary adaptation. Aging, rather, is what happens when various bodily systems evolved to maintain health gradually accumulate defects and begin to malfunction. In the Pleistocene, when life-expectancy is estimated to have been a mere 20 years, too few of our ancestors survived to ripe old age for evolution to favor investment in stronger anti-aging defenses than those we now possess and are forced to rely upon, notwithstanding their evident inadequacy in the modern era where many causes of premature death have been removed.

William Millard - Chairman Founder and former chairman of ComputerLand Corporation with ultimately over 800 stores in 28 countries.

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) is a division of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), located in Bethesda, Maryland. The NIA leads a broad scientific effort to understand the nature of aging and to extend the healthy, active years of life. In 1974, Congress granted authority to form NIA to provide leadership in aging research, training, health information dissemination, and other programs relevant to aging and older people. Subsequent amendments to this legislation designated the NIA as the primary Federal agency on Alzheimer's disease research.

National Institute on AgingNIAUndertakes research on the biomedical, social, and behavioral aspects of the aging process, prevention of age-related diseases and disabilities, promotion of better quality of life for all older Americans.1974

President-elect Barack Obama's reported choice for Surgeon General is a neurosurgeon and CNN medical reporter who's written favorably about radical life extension methods