Publications: Healthy Aging


Stress: Putting the Brain Back Into Medicine

Throughout the life course stress plays a major role in health and disease.

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Intimacy & Sexuality: Toward a Lifespan Perspective

Sexual expression and intimate relationships have been linked to many health benefits.

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Intimations of Immortality: The Ethics and Justice of Life Extending Therapies

Research is being reported, which, if it comes to fruition, would not only constitute major contributions to the treatment of disease but could in principle lead to the indefinite extension of life.

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A History of Ideas About the Prolongation of Life

Places in historical context new scientific findings that relate to the complex biology of aging and longevity.

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Promoting Men's Health: Addressing Barriers to Healthy Lifestyle and Preventive Health Care

Identifies gender as a significant factor influencing public health.

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Walk to a Healthy Future

Proposes a new national commitment to walking.

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The Art of Living Long

Benefits of physical activity, moderation in diet, and limitations on alcohol consumption.

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The Prolongation of Life: Optimistic Studies

In 1830, France became the first nation with a growing percentage of old people.

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Is There an Anti-aging Medicine?

A warning against the growing "hype" of so-called "anti-aging" medicine.

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Growing Older, Staying Stronger: Preventing Sarcopenia Through Strength Training

Older people can stave off sarcopenia by working out as little as twice a week.

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Longevity Genes: From Primitive Organisms to Humans

A variety of evidence indicates that aging and longevity are subject to genetic regulation.

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Achieving and Maintaining Cognitive Vitality With Aging

Reviews current scientific and clinical knowledge of normal human cognitive aging.

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Maintaining Healthy Lifestyles: A Lifetime of Choices

Assimilates latest data on the maintenance of good health habits.

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Biomarkers of Aging: From Primitive Organisms to Man

What biological changes take place as we age?

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The Aging Factor in Health and Disease: The Promise of Basic Research on Aging

Calls for an increase in funding for biomedical research on the mechanisms of aging.

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Masculine Vitality: Pros and Cons of Testosterone in Treating the Andropause

American men are creating an uncontrolled and possibly life-threatening experiment.

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