Aging Research: Collaborations Forge a Promising Future

摘要

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) is one of 27 institutes and centers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), 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, to diseases and conditions for which aging is a risk factor, to interventions that may prevent, delay, or treat these conditions and/or otherwise contribute to an extension of healthy, active years of life. NIA’s growth over the past 40 years as well as its current areas of ongoing research have been marked by multiple fruitful research collaborations both within and outside the Federal government, spanning the breadth of the Institute’s research activities. Several highlights of these collaborations, including the Health and Retirement Study, geroscience research, falls injury prevention in the elderly, and implementation of the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease, are discussed from the perspective of past accomplishments and trends for the future.