Important Web Sites
Introducing a Collection of Websites on Aging, Healthy Aging, Life Transitions, and Longevity
We are thrilled to unveil a new resource: a selection of websites dedicated to providing authoritative information on aging, healthy aging, life transitions, and longevity. This addition is designed to connect you with a wealth of knowledge and support available across the web, enhancing your understanding and ability to manage the aging process effectively.
Explore Our Web Resources
Our collection features websites from esteemed organizations, research institutes, and thought leaders in the field of gerontology and healthy aging:
- Expert Insights on Aging: Discover websites that offer comprehensive overviews on the biological, psychological, and social aspects of aging. These resources provide valuable information for anyone looking to deepen their understanding of the aging process.
- Healthy Aging Tips: Navigate to sites packed with practical advice on maintaining your health as you age. From nutrition guides to exercise routines and mental health support, these websites cover all bases to help you stay active and engaged.
- Guidance Through Life Transitions: Life brings significant changes as we age, such as retirement or adapting to new health conditions. The websites in our collection offer expert advice and coping strategies to help you handle these transitions with ease and confidence.
- Advancements in Longevity: Keep up with the cutting-edge of longevity science through websites that report the latest research findings and innovative practices that aim to extend life expectancy and improve quality of life.
Why These Websites?
These particular websites serve as gateways to a vast array of updated and in-depth information. They are dynamic, being regularly updated with the latest research, news, and resources. By providing links to these valuable resources, we aim to empower you with accessible, diverse, and reliable information that you can trust and utilize in your everyday life.
Engage and Learn
We encourage you to explore these sites and take full advantage of the information they offer. They are invaluable tools for anyone interested in aging well, whether you're a senior, a caregiver, or a health professional.
Visit our sites now and start your journey towards a more informed and healthier approach to aging.
The National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was established in 1974 to improve the health and well-being of older adults through research. NIA conducts and supports genetic, biological, clinical, behavioral, social, and economic research on aging and the challenges and needs of older adults. NIA is at the forefront of scientific discovery about the nature of healthy aging to extend the healthy, active years of life. It is also the lead federal agency for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias research.
NIA supports scientific initiatives and innovation at universities, medical centers, and research institutes across the U.S. and around the world; conducts research at its scientific laboratories in Baltimore and Bethesda, Maryland; and maintains an active communications and outreach program to share knowledge and disseminate information to the broader research community and to the public. Its work has led to important scientific discoveries about the aging process, age-related diseases and conditions, and the needs of the growing older adult population.
AARP is the nation's largest nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to empowering Americans 50 and older to choose how they live as they age. With a nationwide presence, AARP strengthens communities and advocates for what matters most to the more than 100 million Americans 50-plus and their families: health security, financial stability and personal fulfillment. AARP also works for individuals in the marketplace by sparking new solutions and allowing carefully chosen, high-quality products and services to carry the AARP name. As a trusted source for news and information, AARP produces the nation's largest circulation publications, AARP The Magazine and AARP Bulletin. To learn more, visit www.aarp.org/about-aarp/, www.aarp.org/español or follow @AARP, @AARPenEspañol and @AARPadvocates on social media.
Advocating for people age 50-plus is at the heart of our mission. It's part of what we do every day from our national office in Washington, D.C., and from offices in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. On health security, AARP fights to protect Medicare, expand access to health care, lower prescription drug prices, support caregivers and protect nursing home residents. On financial stability, we fight to protect Social Security, establish savings plans for workers and stop scams and fraud. We also work to combat age discrimination in the workplace and speak up for the vulnerable and underrepresented on issues like affordable housing and food security.
https://www.nextavenue.org/achieving-your-dreams-after-60/
Next Avenue is a nonprofit, digital journalism publication produced by Twin Cities PBS (TPT). As public media's first and only national publication for older adults, we are dedicated to covering the issues that matter most as we age.
Mission and Impact
Our mission is to meet the needs and unleash the potential of older Americans through the power of media. Next Avenue has served over 80 million people on our site and millions more through our platforms and partnerships.
Next Avenue is unique among today's media:
- We are part of the PBS system, so you can trust us to deliver nonprofit public media quality.
- We are journalists and experts passionate about serving our audience.
- We have built a network of impeccable sources and prestigious partnerships.
- We’re not here for the bottom line, but to make a difference in the lives of our audience.
Blue Zones employs evidence-based solutions to help people live better, longer. For over 20 years, our work has been rooted in the research and identification of the world’s longest-lived and happiest populations. Through our research of these extraordinary cultures of longevity, we have distilled their lessons for living long, vibrant lives into nine simple practices. Dan Buettner, Blue Zones founder, is an explorer, National Geographic Fellow, award-winning journalist and producer, and New York Times bestselling author. He identified the five original blue zones–the places in the world with the healthiest, longest-living populations, including Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; Nicoya, Costa Rica; Ikaria, Greece; and Loma Linda, California.
Dr. Peter Attia, a Stanford/Johns Hopkins/NIH-trained physician focusing on the applied science of longevity, the extension of human life and well-being. Peter Attia, MD, is the founder of Early Medical, a medical practice that applies the principles of Medicine 3.0 to patients with the goal of simultaneously lengthening their lifespan and increasing their healthspan.
He is the host of The Drive, one of the most popular podcasts covering the topics of health and medicine.
He is also the author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller, Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity.
https://sinclair.hms.harvard.edu/people/david-sinclair
David A. Sinclair, A.O., Ph.D. is a tenured Professor in the Department of Genetics at the Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging Research at Harvard Medical School. He is best known for his work on understanding why we age and how to slow its effects. He obtained his Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics at the University of New South Wales, Sydney in 1995 and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at M.I.T. with Dr. Leonard Guarente where he co discovered a cause of aging for yeast as well as the role of Sir2 in epigenetic changes driven by genome instability. In 1999, he moved to Harvard Medical School where he has been teaching aging biology and translational medicine for aging for the past 23 years. His early research was focused on the sirtuins, which are protein-modifying enzymes that respond to changing NAD+ levels and to caloric restriction (CR) with associated interests in epigenetics, energy metabolism, mitochondria, learning and memory, neurodegeneration, and cancer.
Aging isn’t a problem to be solved. Or a disease to be cured. Or something icky that old people do. It’s how we move through life, and more of us are doing more of it than ever before in human history. What stands between us and making the most of these longer lives? Ageism: judging, stereotyping, and discriminating against people on the basis of how old we think they are. Solve for ageism and we also address sexism (aging is gendered), ableism (disability is stigmatized), and racism (which denies multitudes the chance to age at all). So I’ve written a book. I blog about it. I led the team that developed Old School, a clearinghouse of anti-ageism resources. I am the voice of Yo, Is This Ageist? (Go ahead, ask me.) I speak widely. All efforts to help catalyze a grassroots movement to raise awareness of ageism and how to dismantle it.
From online courses to workshop retreats on the beach in Baja, or on the newest campus in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Modern Elder Academy blends midlife wisdom and social science-based knowledge to help adults find—and focus on—their calling. MEA students learn from the brilliant minds and teachings of world-renowned experts across various fields to connect with and grow their own wisdom. That wisdom is then unleashed among all students from all walks of life, sparking life-changing dialogues and creating an alchemy in the camaraderie within every shared MEA space.
Age Wave is the nation’s foremost thought leader on issues relating to an aging population, with great expertise in the profound business, social, healthcare, financial, workforce and cultural implications. Under the leadership of Founder/CEO Dr. Ken Dychtwald, Age Wave has a unique understanding of the body, mind, hopes and demands of new generations of maturing consumers and workers and their expectations, attitudes, hopes, and fears regarding retirement.
Sage-ing International is a community of elders and elders-to-be who are ready to explore new ways of aging. Beginning as a networking organization for professionals, we have expanded our focus, reaching out to everyone approaching or in the second half of life. Our vision includes teaching/learning, service and community as three vitally important aspects of the sage-ing journey.
ChangingAging™ is a publishing platform challenging conventional views on aging. We believe aging is a strength; rich in developmental potential and growth.
Since 1954, ASA has developed and led the largest, most diverse community of professionals working in aging in America. As a result, ASA has become the go-to source to cultivate leadership, advance knowledge and strengthen the skills of our members and others who work with and on behalf of older adults.
As we unite, empower and champion our community, we have the unique responsibility to be a strong voice and thought leader on critical systemic issues that influence how we age. As America struggles with how best to respond to the need for greater inclusivity, anti-ageism and equity, ASA sees its responsibility as a leader to drive the discourse and advocate for the change necessary to address these issues in aging.