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Americans are living longer than ever before. For many, though, these extra years have become a bitter gift, marred by dementia, disability, and loss of independence.

Extending Life, Enhancing Life sets the course toward practical solutions to these problems by specifying 15 research priorities in five key areas of investigation:

  • Basic biomedicine—To understand the fundamental processes of aging.
  • Clinical—To intervene against common disabilities and maladies of older persons.
  • Behavioral and social—To build on past successes with behavioral and social interventions.
  • Health services delivery—To seek answers to the troubling issues of insufficient delivery of health care in the face of increasing health care costs.
  • Biomedical ethics—To clarify underlying ethical guidelines about life and death decisions.

Most important, the volume firmly establishes the connection between research and its beneficial results for the quality of life for older persons.

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Institute of Medicine. 1991. Extending Life, Enhancing Life: A National Research Agenda on Aging. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/1632.

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164 pages |  6 x 9 |  Hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-309-04399-1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/1632
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Front Matter i-xii
Executive Summary and Recommendations for Funding 1-39
1. Introduction 40-46
2. Basic Biomedical Research 47-56
3. Clinical Research 57-70
4. Behavioral and Social Sciences 71-87
5. Health Services Delivery Research 88-106
6. Research in Biomedical Ethics 107-118
7. Review of Resources Committed to Research on Aging 119-132
Appendix A: Acknowledgements 133-143
Appendix B: Background Documents 144-144
Index 145-152

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