A new curriculum to link the basic science of aging with geriatric practice

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 355-363

  Hamerman, David ^a  

^a International Longevity Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; CURRICULUM; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CURRICULUM; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 73549095546     PISSN: 00315982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (55)

1. Ben-Porath, I., and R. A. Weinberg. 2005. The signals and pathways activating cellular senescence. Int J Biochem Cell Biol 37:961-76.
2. Ben-Shlomo, Y., and D. Kuh. 2002. A life course approach to chronic disease epidemiology: Conceptual models, empirical challenges and interdisciplinary perspectives. Int J Epidemiol 31:285-93.
3. Bodenheimer, T. 2006. Primary care: Will it survive? N Engl J Med 355:861-64.
4. Brody J. E. 2008. Crisis on the front line of health. NY Times, Sept. 30.
5. Butler, R. N. 2008. The longevity revolution: The benefits and challenges of living a long life. New York: Public Affairs.
6. Butler, R. N., et al. 2008. New model of health promotion and disease prevention for the 21st century. BMJ 337:149-50.
7. Campisi, J. 2005. Senescent cells, tumor suppression, and organismal aging: Good citizens, bad neighbors. Cell 120:513-22.
8. Cohen, H. J., et al. 1997. The association of plasma IL-6 levels with functional disability in community-dwelling elderly. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 52:M201-M208.
9. Ershler, W. B. 1993. Interleukin-6: a cytokine for gerontologists. J Am Geriatr Soc 41:176-81.
10. Fossel, M. B. 2004. Cells, aging, and human disease. New York: Oxford Univ. Press.
11. Fried, L. P., and W. J. Hall. 2008. Editorial. Leading on behalf of an aging society. J Am Geriatr Soc 56:1791-95.
12. Fries, J. F. 1997. Editorial. Can preventive gerontology be on the way? Am J Public Health 87:1591-93.
13. Gawande, A. 2007. The way we age now. New Yorker, April 30.
14. Goldstein, S. 1990. Replicative senescence: The human fibroblast comes of age. Science 249:1129-30.
15. Gross, J. 2006. Geriatrics lags in an age of high-tech medicine. NY Times, Oct. 18.
16. Guarente, L., and C. Kenyon. 2000. Genetic pathways that regulate ageing in model organisms. Nature 408:255-62.
17. Hadley E. C., et al. 2005. The future of aging therapies. Cell 120:557-67.
18. Hamerman, D. 2002. Geriatric practice revisited: Toward collaboration with primary care medicine. J Am Geriatr Soc 50:971-72.
19. Hamerman, D. 2007. Geriatric bioscience:The link between aging and disease. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press.
20. Hanahan, D., and R. A. Weinberg. 2000 The hallmarks of cancer. Cell 100:57-70.
21. Harris, E. 2007. Endangered species. Pharos (Winter): 1.
22. Hauer, K. E., et al. 2008. Factors associated with medical students' career choices regarding internal medicine. JAMA 300:1154-64.
23. Hazzard, W. R. 1983. Preventive gerontology: Strategies for healthy aging. Postgrad Med 74:279-87.
24. Hazzard, W. R. 2003. General internal medicine and geriatrics: Collaboration to address the aging imperative can't wait. Ann Intern Med 139:597-98.
25. Hursting, S. D., et al. 2003. Caloric restriction, aging, and cancer prevention: Mechanism of action and applicability to humans. Annu Rev Med 54:131-52.
26. Inouye, S. K., et al. 2007. Geriatric syndromes: Clinical, research, and policy implications of a core geriatric concept. J Am Geriatr Soc 55:780-91.
27. Institute of Medicine (IOM). 2008. Retooling for an aging America: Building the health care work-force. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.
28. Karsenty, G. 2001. Editorial. The not-so-odd couple: The clinician and the experimentalist. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 86:1882-83.
29. Katic, M., and C. R. Kahn. 2005. The role of insulin and IGF-1 signaling in longevity. Cell Mol Life Sci 62:320-43.
30. Kenyon, C., and C. Cockcroft. 2007. Surviving longer. In Survival: The survival of the human race. Darwin College Lectures (no. 20), ed. E. Shuckburgh, 178-204. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.
31. Kirkwood, T. B. L. 2008. A systematic look at an old problem. Nature 451:644-47.
32. Lee, T. H., et al. 2008. Redesigning primary care. N Engl J Med e24:2085-91.
33. Loscalzo, J., I. Kohane, and A. L. Barabasi. 2007. Human disease classification in the postgenomic era: A complex systems approach to human pathobiology. Mol Syst Biol 3: 124.
34. Martin, G. M. 2005. Genetic modulation of senescent phenotypes in homo sapiens. Cell 120:523-32.
35. Mason, M. 2006. One for the ages: A prescription that may extend life. NY Times, Oct. 31.
36. Miller, R. A. 1997. When will the biology of aging become useful? Future landmarks in biomedical gerontology. J Am Geriatr Soc 45:1258-67.
37. Miller, R. A. 2009. "Dividends" from research on aging: Can biogerontologists, at long last, find something useful to do? J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 64:157-60.
38. Najjar, S. S., A. Scuteri, and E. G. Lakatta. 2005. Arterial aging: Is it an immutable cardiovascular risk factor? Hypertension 46:454-62.
39. New York Times. 2009. Editorial. A start on health care reform. NY Times, March 8.
40. Niedernhofer, L. 2008. Book review. Geriatric bioscience: The link between aging and disease. J Clin Invest 118:3245.
41. Pear, R., and S. G. Stolberg. 2009. Obama says he is open to altering health plan. NY Times, March 6.
42. Pompei, P., and J. B. Murphy, eds. 2006. Geriatric review syllabus: A core curriculum in geriatric medicine, 6th ed. New York: American Geriatrics Society.
43. Reviews on aging. 2005. Cell 12:435-567.
44. Rowe, J. W., and R. L. Kahn. 1997. Successful aging. Gerontologist 37:433-40.
45. Rudolph, K. L., et al. 1999. Longevity, stress response, and cancer in telomerase-deficient mice. Cell 96:701-12.
46. Sack, K. 2008. Health plan from Obama stirs debate. NY Times, July 23.
47. Sierra, F. 2009. Foreword. Biology of aging summit report. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 64:155-56.
48. Simon, S. R., A. R. Fabiny, and J. Kotch. 2003. Geriatrics training in general internal medicine fellowship programs: Current practices, barriers, and strategies for improvement. Ann Intern Med 139:621-27.
49. Sinclair, D. A. 2005. Toward a unified theory of caloric restriction and longevity regulation. Mech Ageing Dev 126:987-1002.
50. Singh, M. F. 2003. Letter to the editor. Commentary on Dr. Kane's article, "The future of geriatrics: Geriatrics at the crossroads." J Gerontol A: Biol Sci Med Sci 58:M92-M93.
51. Starfield, B., L. Shi, and J. Macinko. 2005. Contribution of primary care to health systems. Milbank Q 83:457-502.
52. Tracy, R. D. 2003. Emerging relationships of inflammation, cardiovascular diseases and chronic diseases of aging. Int J Obesity 27 (suppl. 3):S29-S34.
53. Vasan, R. S. 2006. Biomarkers of cardiovascular disease: Molecular basis and practical considerations. Circulation 113:2335-62.
54. Westendorp, R. G. J., and C. Wimmer. 2005. Linking early development with ageing: Towards a new research agenda. Mech Ageing Dev 126:419-20.
55. Zerhouni, E. A. 2005. Translational and clinical science: Time for a new vision. N Engl J Med 353:1621-23.