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The American Aging Association is a non-profit, tax-exempt biogerontology organization of scientists and laypeople dedicated to biomedical aging studies and geroscience, with the goal of slowing the aging process to extend the healthy human lifespan while preserving and restoring functions typically lost to age-related degeneration. [1]
Older Americans Act; Long title: An Act to provide assistance in the development of new or improved programs to help older persons through grants to the States for community planning and services and for training, through research, development, or training project grants, and to establish within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare an operating agency to be designated as the ...
Nationally certified by American Council on Exercise; Member, ASA (American Society on Aging) Member, NCOA (National Council on the Aging) Member, SFA (American Senior Fitness Association) National Advisory Board; Member, FEOAA (Fitness Educators Of Active Adults) Presenter, IDEA Conventions: 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1995, 1996
The American Society on Aging [ASA] [21] is one of the two major multidisciplinary membership organizations in the United States focusing on issues of aging. [The older, slightly larger organization is the Gerontological Society of America , founded in 1945, which has separate divisions for biological-medical science, behavioral sciences, and ...
ASA is governed by its House of Delegates. The House of Delegates is composed of ASA delegates and directors (designated by geographic distribution), ASA officers, all past presidents, the Editor-in-Chief of the journal, the chairs of all sections, the chair of the ASA delegation to the American Medical Association House of Delegates and each member of the Resident Component Governing Council ...
Geroscience has a long way to go, but there are four FDA-approved drugs that have shown promise to “target the process of aging,” Barzilai says. While not approved as anti-aging treatments ...
The Gerontological Society of America, along with the American Geriatrics Society [3] advocated for the formation of a National Gerontological Institute. These efforts bore fruit in 1974 when President Richard Nixon signed legislation to create the National Institute on Aging [4] (NIA). In 1946, GSA began publishing Journal of Gerontology.
The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) is a non-profit professional society founded on June 11, 1942, for health care professionals practicing geriatric medicine. [1] Among the founding physicians were Dr. Ignatz Leo Nascher, who coined the term "geriatrics", Dr. Malford W. Thewlis, who was named the first executive secretary of the Society, and Dr. Lucien Stark who was appointed the first AGS ...