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The RADC is a leader in research into the causes, treatments, and prevention of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. [4] One of its earliest research projects was the Religious Orders Study. [5] The Religious Orders Study, led by Dr. Bennett, was initially funded by the National Institute on Aging in 1993.
Program offices in the Office of the Director are responsible for stimulating specific areas of research throughout NIH and for planning and supporting research and related activities. Current program areas are: minority health, women's health, AIDS research, disease prevention, and behavioral and social sciences research. [11]
The Buck Institute for Research on Aging [1] is an independent biomedical research institute that researches aging and age-related disease. [2] The mission of the Buck Institute is to extend the healthy years of life. The Buck Institute is one of nine centers for aging research of the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research. [3]
Sanford Burnham Prebys is a 501(c)(3) non-profit medical research institute focused on conducting basic and translational research. Its primary research areas include cancer, neurodegeneration, diabetes, infectious diseases, inflammatory conditions, and childhood illnesses.
According to The New York Times, their co-founder and president Ronald Klatz stated that "We're not about growing old gracefully.We're about never growing old." [9]Writing in the 2001 issue of the journal Generations, historian Carole Haber of the University of Delaware, states that Klatz' aspirations and the rhetoric of the A4M "reflect well-worn ideas and the often-enunciated hopes of the ...
Unbound, formerly Christian Foundation for Children and Aging, is a nonprofit international development organization headquartered in Kansas City, Kansas. Unbound was founded by lay Catholics acting on the Gospel call to serve the poor. Its sponsorship program provides direct cash transfers to sponsored members who determine how to use their ...
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The Children’s Health Insurance Program was created in 1997 and reauthorized in 2009. Known as CHIP, the program was enacted following the 1994 failure of national health reform. The purpose of CHIP was to expand health insurance coverage for targeted, uninsured, low-income children with family incomes below 200 percent of the federal poverty ...