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ACTIVITIES/RESOURCES. Many resources are on-line that students can explore: research studies, activities, readings, video, interactive simulations. . You decide how to use them! . TED TALKS. Might you live a great deal longer?
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ACTIVITIES/RESOURCES Many resources are on-line that students can explore: research studies, activities, readings, video, interactive simulations. You decide how to use them!
TED TALKS • Might you live a great deal longer? • We're obsessed with age: Quests for youth, immortality and prolonged life are, indeed, ageless. Here, explore the science of longer lives and imagine what we might do with our extra years. • Show in class to supplement text • Assign to students / groups to view and review • Assign to view and then find journal article related to the talk to read and do a review on • Can use as individual , group , written and/or oral presentations for assessment
http://www.ted.com/playlists/64/might_you_live_a_great_deal_lo.htmlhttp://www.ted.com/playlists/64/might_you_live_a_great_deal_lo.html
INTERACTIVE http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/aging-longevity.html
http://www.midus.wisc.edu/newsletter/index.php Students read, review, report to class or other groups on the findings (PTO’s, schools, community centers, assisted living facilities, ect’)
How Healthy Are We?A National Study of Well-Being at Midlife(Orville Gilbert Brim, Carol D. Ryff, and Ronald C. Kessler, editors)The culmination of a decade and a half of research, How Healthy Are We? presents the key findings from the MIDUS survey in three sections: midlife perspectives on physical health; emotion, quality of life, and psychological well-being in midlife; and contexts of midlife: work and family experience, neighborhood, and geographic region. http://midmac.med.harvard.edu/
http://www.bluezones.com/about/ http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_buettner_how_to_live_to_be_100.html Video
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/longevity/preview/daily_vid.htmlhttp://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/longevity/preview/daily_vid.html
http://www.cdc.gov/aging/index.htm FREE publications and other resources in RESOURCES, PUBLICATIONS and PRESS ROOM
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/livingold/etc/links.htmlhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/livingold/etc/links.html
Uploaded on Feb 25, 2010 Ellen Hughes, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine; Former Director of Education, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine discusses healthy living and aging. Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public [2/2010] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 17630] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQrkioHOJLs
The NUN Study http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/03/24/nuns_alzheimers_study The Nun Study is a longitudinal study of aging and Alzheimer's disease funded by the National Institute on Aging. Participants are 678 American members of the School Sisters of Notre Dame religious congregation who are 75 to 106 years of age. http://sciencehack.com/videos/view/nw2lafKIEioUSE TO SHOW DAVID SNOWDON AND ORIGINAL NUNS , CONVENT AND ID THE HYPOTHESIS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKcbfEbT2aUUSE TO SHOW 2009 CONTINUATION OF THE STUDY http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2734290/pdf/6759.pdf Your text here
BLUE ZONES http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_buettner_how_to_live_to_be_100.html SHOW after explaining key studies http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/longevity/preview/daily_vid.html http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0511/sights_n_sounds/index.html PPT AUDIO DISCUSSION
BALTIMORE LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF AGING http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETPYrpwmH6M Gait labPublished on May 22, 2013 At the Gait Lab, which is part of the National Institute on Aging's Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging, scientists study the mechanics and components of gait in older adults. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGnNCUF90ko How you walk may predict AZD http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHpRIEuS04E Luigi Ferrucci, MD, PhD (Spring, 2012) http://www.nia.nih.gov/health/publication/healthy-aging-lessons-baltimore-longitudinal-study-aging/introduction
http://www.hebrewseniorlife.org/research-current-study-recruitmenthttp://www.hebrewseniorlife.org/research-current-study-recruitment http://www.aging.upmc.com/researchers/current-studies.htm#Normal
EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH DESIGN: Dr. Adam Gazzaley Explores Working Memory http://www.afar.org/media/videos/ Grantee Adam Gazzaley, MD, PhD, is using his recent neuroscience research to break new ground in developing therapies for memory in older adults. His work on multi-tasking in the aging brain has made headlines recently, and this new research is propelling his lab toward training brains with a video game. Dr. Adam Gazzaley is the founder of the Neuroscience Imaging Center at the University of California, San Francisco, and an associate professor of Neurology, Physiology and Psychiatry. He is a recipient of the 2005 Pfizer/AFAR Innovations in Aging Award and a 2002 Glenn/AFAR Postdoctoral Award. LIFE EXPECTANCY RESEARCH FINDINGS video the importance of life long education http://www.macfound.org/press/from-field/widening-gaps-life-expectancy-reflect-race-gender-and-education/ http://health.heraldtribune.com/2012/11/19/why-does-education-play-such-a-big-role-in-longevity/