Healthy Aging and Longevity: Third International Conference (New Book)

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Greetings,

Here is a new book for discussion:

Healthy Aging and Longevity: Third International Conference
(Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences)
by Noah J. Weller and Suresh I. S. Rattan (Paperback - Jan 14, 2008)

Book Description provided by the Publisher (Wiley-Blackwell):

In a climate where many unsubstantiated claims are made, it is essential to have access to the best evidence-based knowledge on how to extend healthy life expectancy. Researchers, healthcare practitioners, and policy makers come together annually at the International Research Center for Healthy Ageing and Longevity to discuss, debate, and exchange ideas, and the proceedings of the most recent conference is contained in the chapters of this volume.

Now, more than ever, a critical need exists for the development of appropriate policies so that aging is seen as a resource and not as an isolating and segregating experience. Solid research elucidating the processes of aging must be translated into strategies for clinical practice in order to respond to the needs of an aging population.

The full spectrum of proven and potential aging interventions including pharmaceutical, nutritional, clinical, educational, policy, complementary, preventive, and restorative means were explored at this international meeting. The topics covered in this volume include the following:

(1) Nutritional interventions in aging and age-associated disease, both diet and supplements;

(2) dementia in an aging population;

(3) the new caring -- financial and asset management and substitute decision-making by and for older people;

(4) how we improve the quality of research into healthy aging;

(5) promoting balance and preventing falls in an aging population;

(6) population aging in developing countries;

(7) promoting health and well-being of the older community;

(8) hormone and metabolic interventions in aging;

(9) community attitudes and approaches towards human life extension;

(10) respecting the elders in our care;

(11) the biology of healthy aging and longevity;

(12) basic science and mechanisms of aging and longevity;

(13) sustaining optimal aging -- inner strength and mutual support;

(14) wellbeing, retirement planning and expectations of the baby-boomer generation;

(15) natural and complementary approaches to age-associated disorders;

(16) psychosocial predictors of healthy aging and longevity -- lessons from longitudinal studies;

(17) healthy longevity -- lessons learned from the world's longest-lived people;

(18) the aging brain;

(19) baby-boomer work force participation;

(20) quality of care and quality of life for the elderly;

(21) frontiers of knowledge in biogerontology;

(22) behavioural and social interventions for healthy aging and longevity.

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The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (New Book)

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Here is a new book for discussion:

The Myth of Alzheimer's:
What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis
by Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
(Hardcover - Jan 8, 2008)

Book Description provided by the Publisher (St. Martin's Press):

Dr. Peter Whitehouse will transform the way we think about Alzheimer's disease. In this provocative and ground-breaking book he challenges the conventional wisdom about memory loss and cognitive impairment; questions the current treatment for Alzheimer's disease; and provides a new approach to understanding and rethinking everything we thought we knew about brain aging. The Myth of Alzheimer's provides welcome answers to the questions that millions of people diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease - and their families - are eager to know:

-- Is Alzheimer's a disease?
-- What is the difference between a naturally aging brain and an Alzheimer's brain?
-- How effective are the current drugs for AD? Are they worth the money we spend on them?
-- What kind of hope does science really have for the treatment of memory loss? And are there alternative interventions that can keep our aging bodies and minds sharp?
-- What promise does genomic research actually hold?
-- What would a world without Alzheimer's look like, and how do we as individuals and as human communities get there?

Backed up by research, full of practical advice and information, and infused with hope, THE MYTH OF ALZHEIMER'S will liberate us from this crippling label, teach us how to best approach memory loss, and explain how to stave off some of the normal effects of aging. Peter J. Whitehouse, M.D., Ph.D., one of the best known Alzheimer's experts in the world, specializes in neurology with an interest in geriatrics and cognitive science and a focus on dementia. He is the founder of the University Alzheimer Center (now the University Memory and Aging Center) at University Hospitals Case Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University where he has held professorships in the neurology, neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, organizational behavior, bioethics, cognitive science, nursing, and history. He is also currently a practicing geriatric neurologist. With his wife, Catherine, he founded The Intergenerational School, an award winning, internationally recognized public school committed to enhancing lifelong cognitive vitality. Daniel George, MSc, is a research collaborator with Dr. Whitehouse at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Medical Anthropology at Oxford University in England.

'I don't have a magic bullet to prevent your brain from getting older, and so I don't claim to have the cure for AD; but I do offer a powerful therapy - a new narrative for approaching brain aging that undercuts the destructive myth we tell today. Most of our knowledge and our thinking is organized in story form, and thus stories offer us the chief means of making sense of the present, looking into the future, and planning and creating our lives. New approaches to brain aging require new stories that can move us beyond the myth of Alzheimer's disease and towards improved quality of life for all aging persons in our society.It is in this book that your new story can begin.' - Peter Whitehouse, M.D., Ph.D.

Key words:
New books, Myth of Alzheimer's, Alzheimer's, Peter Whitehouse, Daniel George, St. Martin's Press, memory loss, cognitive impairment, brain aging, neurology, geriatrics, cognitive science, dementia, neurology, psychiatry, psychology, organizational behavior, bioethics, nursing

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