Paul B. Beeson Career Development Awards in Aging Research Program
Author | : American Federation for Aging Research |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download Paul B Beeson Career Development Awards In Aging Research Program full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Paul B Beeson Career Development Awards In Aging Research Program ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author | : American Federation for Aging Research |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael G. Zey |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1351533258 |
In this intriguing volume, futurist and author Michael G. Zey imagines a time in which technology has stretched human life spans to four hundred years or more. Genetic engineering, cloning, and stem-cell technology will eradicate diseases and allow for nanoscopic repair and maintenance of the body. "Smart drugs" and caloric restriction programs will largely stop aging and ensure healthy bodies and sharp minds indefinitely.Grounding his speculation in contemporary scientific research, Zey's optimistic vision sees retirement replaced by hiatuses between careers, and leisure time spent in multi-generational homes. Key players in the debate include supporters like Cambridge University scientist Aubrey de Grey, who envisions five-thousand-year life spans, and the radical futurist author Ray Kurzweil, who foresees the merging of humans and computers. Organizations such as the Coalition to Extend Life lobby the government for immortality research funding and find opposition in the President's Council on Bioethics and "deep ecologists" advocating zero-population growth.Criticizing current environmental trends as anti-progress and anti-human, Zey's own solutions include controversial measures like human control of weather, colonization of outer space, and genetically modifying food. He concludes that the eventuality of a modern Fountain of Youth is closer than we think. Zey's predictions about the future are thoughtful and fascinating.
Author | : Halaevalu F.Ofahengaue Vakalahi |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2014-01-28 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9401785945 |
The collective, inclusive, and intersectional framework used in this book speaks to the significance of understanding aging across diverse cultures from multiple perspectives, but still as a shared human experience. The underlying message of the book is that although we are unique and different in our aging processes, we are ultimately connected through this physical, mental and spiritual experience of aging. Thus, regardless of whether we are service providers, service recipients, educators or merely fellow human beings, it is important that we approach the aging experience through a collective lens for discovering and sharing resources as we age; honoring the past while simultaneously accepting that the future is here. A few select examples of key findings from this collaborative work are as follows. First, despite progress in the field, certain issues remain to be addressed including the challenges of racism and sexism, mistreatment, the digital divide, poverty, and other social and economic crises in urban and rural communities as they relate to our aging population. Second, the need for sustaining a sense of independence among the aged and interdependence among supportive systems is warranted. Third, our elders continue to benefit from culturally competent services community-based health interventions and social services that addresses normative and emerging challenges for them. Fourth, spirituality in both indigenous and contemporary perspectives remains important for our elders’ development and quality of life.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1776 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Administrative agencies |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard Schulz |
Publisher | : Springer Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 746 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780826148438 |
Print+CourseSmart
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 876 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Administrative agencies |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1834 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Administrative agencies |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kristen L. Mauk |
Publisher | : Jones & Bartlett Publishers |
Total Pages | : 1104 |
Release | : 2013-03-15 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1449694640 |
Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition. Gerontological Nursing: Competencies for Care, Second Edition is a comprehensive and student-accessible text that offers a holistic and inter-disciplinary approach to caring for the elderly. The framework for the text is built around the Core Competencies set forth by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing. Building upon their knowledge in prior medical surgical courses, this text gives students the skills and theory needed to provide outstanding care for the growing elderly population. This innovative text is the first of its kind to have over 40 contributing authors from many different disciplines. Some of the key features of the text include chapter outlines, learning objectives, discussion questions, personal reflection boxes, case studies and more!
Author | : Joel L. Fleishman |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2009-03-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786734256 |
Unique in all the world, the American foundation sector has been an engine of social change for more than a century. In this companion volume to The Foundation: A Great American Secret, Joel Fleishman, Scott Kohler, and Steven Schindler explore 100 of the highest-achieving foundation initiatives of all time. Based on a rich array of sources -- from interviews with the principals themselves to contemporaneous news accounts to internal evaluation reports -- this volume presents brief case studies of foundation success stories across virtually every field of human endeavor. The influence of the foundations on American, and indeed global society, has only occasionally come into the public view. For every well-known foundation achievement -- Andrew Carnegie's massive library building program or the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's public efforts to curb tobacco use -- there are a great many lesser-known, but often equally important stories to be told. The cases in this volume provide a wealth of evidentiary support for Joel Fleishman's description of, and recommendations for, the foundation sector. With lessons for grant-makers, grant-seekers, public officials, and public-spirited individuals alike, this casebook pieces together 100 stories, some well known, others never before told, and offers hard proof of the foundation sector's immense and enduring impact on scientific research, education, public policy, and many other fields. The work that foundations have supported over the past century has achieved profound results. Yet foundations are capable of more and better. This volume, a window onto great successes of the past and present, is at once a look back, a look around, and a point of reference as we turn to the future.