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Spotlight on the Latest News:

• Young people could be screened for Alzheimer's risk
• Alzheimer's gene changes brain early, study finds
• AHA Releases New Cerebrovascular Disease Recommendations
• Cognitive Behavior Therapy Eases Anxiety for Older People
• Scientists Uncover New Weapon Against Huntington's
• When should Alzheimer's patients stop driving?
• Severe hypoglycemia linked with higher risk of dementia for older adults with diabetes

• Weight gain early in life leads to physical disabilities in older adults
• Exercise Might Benefit Some With Heart Failure
• Bulging Waistline Boosts Heart Failure Risk
• Regimens: Tai Chi Shows Promise as a Stroke Therapy

• Home-Based Program Extends Seniors' Lives

• Poses can prevent falls: Research out of Temple's Gait Study Center suggests basic yoga exercises could help prevent falls in elderly women, EurekAlert, Temple University

News from Penn Medicine Research:

• Penn Medicine Pathologists Pioneer Biomarker Test to Diagnose or Rule Out Alzheimer’s Disease

• Penn Study Finds Link Between Parkinson’s Disease Genes and Manganese Poisoning

• IOA Fellow and Pilot Research Grant Awardee - Dr. Amita Sehgal:
  Searching for Shut Eye: Penn Study Identifies Possible Sleep Gene

• Detecting Alzheimer’s Disease Earlier: Penn Researchers Identify Promising Indicators

• IOA Pilot Research Grant Awardee - Dr. Kevin Foskett:
  Calcium May be the Key to Understanding Alzheimer's Disease

• IOA Fellow Dr. Aaron Gitler:
  Penn Scientist Selected as One of Seven Rita Allen Foundation Scholars

• Dismantling Alzheimer’s Disease: Penn Researchers Discover How Small Molecule Can Take Apart Disease-Associated Protein Fibers

• More Genes for Lou Gehrig’s Disease Identified, According to Penn Researchers

• IOA Fellow and Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar Dawn Alley, PhD:
  Penn Researchers Find Increase in Disability Among Older, Obese Adults

• New MRI Image Technique Predicts Early Onset of Alzheimer’s Disease in Patients with Mild Memory Problems

News Articles and Reports:

• NBC’s The Today Show aired a segment featuring the Institute on Aging and Penn Center for Rehabilitation and Care on Monday, October 27, 2008. The Today Show segment looks at whether "95 is the new 75," as the first part of a series on "Beating the Clock." More information...

• Vitamin D and the Brain: More Good News -- The Dana Foundation

• Gentlemen, 5 Easy Steps to Living Long and Well -- nytimes.com

• Emotional Toll of Alzheimer's on the Spouse -- cnn.com

• Caring for Mom and Dad from Afar -- cnn.com

• "Goal driven achievers less prone to Alzheimer's", cnn.com

• "Grassroots Effort to Grow Old at Home", New York Times

• "Probing a Mind for a Cure: Shedding Light on a Fading Mind" - Philadelphia Inquirer, February 26, 2006
  As dementia began to steal his brain, Bob Moore decided that eventually he wanted science to have it. His gift and others' are helping shed light on a disease that touches millions. Stories, slideshows on Robert Moore, and links to resources on Alzheimer's disease.

• Huge Global Increase in Alzheimer's, Dementia Predicted, New York Times Syndicate

Articles and Papers on Aging, Aging Services and Aging-Related Disease (PDF format):

• Alzheimer's Association releases 2009 Alzheimer's Facts and Figures Report and the Alzheimer's Study Group has released its National Alzheimer's Strategic Plan today as part of a hearing on the group’s work before the Senate Special Committee on Aging.

• Study finds improved cognitive health among older Americans -- National Institute on Aging

• "Physical Activity and Cognitive Health," Alzheimer’s & Dementia 3 (2007) 98-108, M. Kathryn Jedrziewski, Virginia M.-Y. Lee, and John Q. Trojanowski

• Healthy Ageing: A Challenge for Europe

• Stop and Go: Proteins Important in Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s Disease Travel in the Slow Lane

• Targeting Tau - Penn researchers and colleagues gain more insight into Alzheimer's disease

• Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Trials and the Logic of Clinical Purpose, New England Journal of Medicine, October 12, editorial by Dr. Jason Karlawish

• Picking Apart the Causes of Mysterious Dementias, Science, October 6, 2006 Vol 314

• Mechanisms of Parkinson's Disease Linked to Pathological beta-Synuclein: New Targets for Drug Discovery, Neuron, Vol 52:33-38, October 5, 2006, Virginia M.-Y. Lee and John Q. Trojanowski

• Ubiquitinated TDP-43 in Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Science, October 6, 2006, Vol 314:130-133, Manuela Neumann, Deepak M. Sampathu, Linda K. Kwong, Adam C. Truax, Matthew C. Micsenyi, Thomas T. Chou, Jennifer Bruce, Theresa Schuck, Murray Grossman, Christopher M. Clark, Leo F. McCluskey, Bruce L. Miller, Eliezer Masliah, Ian R. Mackenzie, Howard Feldman, Wolfgang Feiden, Hans A. Kretzschmar, John Q. Trojanowski, and Virginia M.-Y. Lee

• Humidity implicated in heart attack risk for older patients
  Heart, July 12

• Activity found to spur prolonged life
  Journal of the American Medical Association, July 12

• Thyroid Status, Cardiovascular Risk, and Mortality in Older Adults
  Anne R. Cappola (IOA Fellow); Linda P. Fried; Alice M. Arnold; Mark D. Danese; Lewis H. Kuller; Gregory L. Burke; Russell P. Tracy; Paul W. Ladenson
  JAMA. 2006;295:1033-1041.

• (ASA) American Stroke Association: Guidelines Urge Same Urgency for TIAs as Stroke

• NIH Seeks Strategies to Preserve Brain Health
  The Cognitive and Emotional Health Project’s searchable database of a large number of studies on age and cognitive and emotional function can be found on the NIH website at http://trans.nih.gov/CEHP.

• Exercise and Heart Health May Keep Dementia at Arm's Length

• "Mortality after the Hospitalization of a Spouse"
  Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, Harvard University and Paul D. Allison, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
  New England Journal of Medicine Volume 354:719-730. February 16, 2006

• "Developing a Research Agenda in Biogerontology: Basic Mechanisms"  Sage KE article (Science of Aging Knowledge Environment)

• "Are Baby Boomers Ready for Retirement?  Housing and Financial Security for Leading Edge Boomers" -- A report commissioned by the Coalition for Research on Baby Boomer Housing and Retirement Options Housing & Financial Security for Leading Edge Boomers.

• "Appropriate Use of Artificial Nutrition and Hydration —
  Fundamental Principles and Recommendations"
  David Casarett, MD, Jennifer Kapo, MD, and Arthur Caplan, PhD  (IOA Fellows)
  New England Journal of Medicine 353;24. December 15, 2005.

• Study: Scientists Focusing Less on Longevity, More on How We Age and Why We Die, new report prepared by Public Agenda for the Alliance for Aging Research and the American Federation for Aging Research.

External Events and Conferences on Aging, Aging Services, and Aging-Related Diseases:

• Alzheimer: 100 Years and Beyond. Tubingen, Germany, November 2-5, 2006
  Video streaming of conference

• White House Conference on Aging 2005
  For more information on the 2005 White House Conference on Aging, visit http://www.whcoa.gov/.

• World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research
  Declaration of the First Meeting of the World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research, Campidoglio, Rome 16 - 18 February 2007. (Webcasts of the Congress and meetings available.)

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