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Mission of the National Institute on Aging
— (selected as best paper in JAGS in the 1970s) | | Author(s) | Robert N Butler |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 51, no 8, August 2003 |
| Pages | pp 1169-1173 |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Biological ageing ; Research ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The US National Institute on Aging (NIA) - in 1976 the newest of the National Institutes of Health - is dedicated to improving the quality of life of the old in America through biomedical, social and behavioural research. Ageing is viewed as more than just decline and deterioration; it is also a process of continued development and accumulated knowledge. The NIA will encourage innovative research, but will not support the delivery of health services, as that is the domain of other agencies. In areas of overlap, such as diseases common to the old, the NIA will collaborate with other institutes. A good target area for collaboration is senile dementia. Other areas of interest to the NIA are: encouraging the incorporation of geriatric medicine as a sub-specialty; developing retirement test patterns; investigating drug-drug and drug-age interactions; personality and social processes; and immunocompetence. This paper was first presented at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the American Geriatrics Society, in Houston, TX, in April 1976. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030923210 A |
| Classmark | BG: BH: 3A: 7T |
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