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| September 2004 -- NIA gathered eminent researchers on September 28 to discuss with journalists, “How can we prepare to meet the challenges of an aging population?” The answers, at least according to this NIA-supported group of leading social, behavioral, and economic scientists, will come from creative thinking and new approaches to some of today’s most difficult questions, such as the rise in health expenditures and major gaps in personal savings for retirement. |
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| April 2004 - Bruce L. Miller, M.D., who is the clinical director of UCSF’s Memory and Aging Center, spoke on frontotemporal dementia and the neuropsychology of creativity at an April 21 workshop on creativity, aging, and health sponsored by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the Society for the Arts in Healthcare (SAH). |
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| In March and April 2004, the National Institute on Aging (NIA) sponsored the Vital Visionaries Collaboration to encourage interaction between older people and first-year medical students, to foster improved understanding and appreciation of older people by medical students and to awaken older people to their creative possibilities. NIA worked in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (JHM) and the American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM) in Baltimore, MD to develop this pilot project. The Academy for Educational Development (AED) handled project logistics, analyzed the student surveys, and wrote the draft report for the NIA. |
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| July 2003 - A report from the first meeting of the NIA Longitudinal Data on Aging (LDA) Working Group. The LDA Working Group consisting of epidemiologic, clinical, and basic researchers explored research opportunities and identified resource requirements for applying existing longitudinal studies more extensively to advance research on determinants of aging and health across the lifespan. |
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| NIA Panel report revealing exceptional individuals—whose productive lifespan greatly exceeds the average—have been subjects of interest for many years. Understanding the factors that contribute to exceptional longevity and/or exceptional “health span” (survival without disease or disability) could lead to better means to maintain health and prevent disease throughout life (August 2002). |
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| November 2001 - Highlights from the NIA Symposium: Research Initiatives, Funding and Training Opportunities at the National Institute on Aging. Presented at the 54th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America: “2001 - A Gerontological Odyssey: Exploring Science, Society and Spirituality”. |
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| June 2001 - A report of the National Institute on Aging Advisory Panel on Exceptional Longevity (APEL) that includes recommendations on the feasibility of studies to identify genetic factors and other factors that might interact with genetic factors that contribute to exceptional longevity (EL). |
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| Report describing the Aging and Genetic Epidemiology Working Group meeting convened by NIA to identify research opportunities for research on genetic epidemiology of aging-related outcomes (November 1999). |
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| May 2004 -- Workshop held in Bethesda, MD, to review the current state-of-the-science in the interaction of the changing hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian hormones across the menopausal transition with nonreproductive somatic and neuronal tissues resulting in pathophysiology associated with postmenopause. The slides from the various talks and discussion sessions, which the speakers agreed to share, are available on this Web site. |
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| Report describing the NIA Workshop on Primate Models of the Menopause, including recommendations for research opportunities and resource requirements to further develop nonhuman primate models of menopause (January 2001). |
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