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. 2017 Nov;65(11):2441-2445.
doi: 10.1111/jgs.15052. Epub 2017 Aug 30.

Aging Research: Collaborations Forge a Promising Future

Melinda S Kelley  1 , Marie A Bernard  1 , Richard J Hodes  1
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Aging Research: Collaborations Forge a Promising Future

Melinda S Kelley et al. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2017 Nov.

Abstract

The National Institute on Aging (NIA), one of 27 institutes and centers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was founded in 1974 to conduct and support research on aging and the health and well-being of older people. The Institute's interests span the fundamental processes that contribute to aging and their impact on systems; diseases and conditions for which aging is a risk factor; and interventions that may prevent, delay, or treat these conditions or otherwise contribute to an extension of healthy, active years of life. Multiple fruitful research collaborations within and outside the federal government, spanning the breadth of the Institute's research activities, have marked NIA's growth over the past 40 years, as well as its current areas of ongoing research. This article discusses several highlights of these collaborations, including the Health and Retirement Study, geroscience research, falls injury prevention in elderly adults, and implementation of the National Plan to Address Alzheimer's Disease, from the perspective of past accomplishments and trends for the future.

Keywords: collaborations; funding; research.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: All of the authors are employees of the National Institute on Aging at NIH and have no conflicts with the manuscript to disclose.

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