aging

Social workers and experts on aging offer caregivers and potential caregivers help when arranging for the care of an elderly relative.

"right now, people think of aging as natural and something you can't control,'' he said.

Aging happens to all of us, and is generally thought of as a natural part of life.

Biophysicist Alex Zhavoronkov believes that aging should be considered a disease.

But if aging were recognized as a disease, he said, "It would attract funding and change the way we do health care. What matters is understanding that aging is curable."

But they continue to age, because aging is separate from their disease, Hayflick said.

given the increasing concern about health care costs for the aging population, Karraker believes policymakers should be aware of the relationship between disease and risk of divorce.

In academic circles, people take aging research as just an interest area where they can try to develop interventions.

In that light, aging itself might be seen as something treatable, the way you would treat high blood pressure or a vitamin deficiency.

Leonard Hayflick, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco, said the idea that aging can be cured implies the human lifespan can be increased, which some researchers suggest is possible.

On the other hand, indicators of a person's accumulated knowledge—like performance on tests of vocabulary and general knowledge—kept improving with age, according to findings published in the journal Neurobiology of Aging.

On the other hand, scientists are increasingly learning that aging and biological age are two different things, and that the former is a key risk factor for conditions such as heart disease, cancer and many more.

The medical community also takes aging for granted, and can do nothing about it except keep people within a certain health range.

We believe that to focus on longevity as primarily an issue of aging is to miss its full implications.

As we've seen, wage earners are expected to care for not only their children but their aging parents.

In a study of older people with sisters and brothers, psychologist Debra Gold of the Duke Center for the study of aging and human development found that about 20% said they were hostile or indifferent to ward their sisters and brothers.

At around age 60, "muscles really start to break down," says Kathryn Starr, an aging researcher, "and because of that, the protein needs of an older adult actually increase.

Occupational stress increases the risk of heart attack and diabetes, accelerates the aging process, decreases longevity, and contributes to depression and anxiety, among numerous other negative health outcomes.

You will face problems in the aging of the population that have never been faced before.

The conflict has been surfacing since 2002, when the corporation bought Vermont's only nuclear power plant, an aging reactor in Vernon.