Many resources are on-line that students can explore: research studies, activities, readings, video, interactive simulations.

You decide how to use them!

ACTIVITIES/RESOURCES

Might you live a great deal longer? We're obsessed with age: Quests for youth, immortality and prolonged life are, indeed, ageless. Here, explore the science of longer lives and imagine what we might do with our extra years.

• Show in class to supplement text• Assign to students / groups to view and review• Assign to view and then find journal article related to

the talk to read and do a review on • Can use as individual , group , written and/or oral

presentations for assessment

TED TALKS

http://www.ted.com/playlists/64/might_you_live_a_great_deal_lo.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/aging.html

INTERACTIVE http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/aging-longevity.html

http://www.midus.wisc.edu/

http://www.midus.wisc.edu/newsletter/index.phpStudents read, review, report to class or other groups on the findings

(PTO’s, schools, community centers, assisted living facilities, ect’)

How Healthy Are We?A National Study of Well-Being at Midlife

(Orville Gilbert Brim, Carol D. Ryff, and Ronald C. Kessler, editors)

The culmination of a decade and a half of research, How Healthy Are We? presents the key findings from the MIDUS

survey in three sections: midlife perspectives on physical health; emotion, quality of life, and psychological well-being in midlife; and contexts of midlife: work and family experience,

neighborhood, and geographic region.

http://midmac.med.harvard.edu/

http://www.bluezones.com/about/http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_buettner_how_to_live_to_be_100.html

Video

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/longevity/preview/daily_vid.html

http://apps.bluezones.com/vitality/

http://www.bluezones.com/live-happier/thrive-centers/

http://www.sfftests.webs.com/aging.html

http://www.apa.org/topics/aging/index.aspx

http://psychcentral.com/news/category/aging

http://www.rand.org/labor/aging/research.html

http://www.cdc.gov/aging/index.htmFREE publications and other resources in RESOURCES, PUBLICATIONS and PRESS ROOM

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/livingold/etc/links.html

http://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/topss/videos-teachers.aspx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQrkioHOJLs

Uploaded on Feb 25, 2010 Ellen Hughes, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine; Former Director of Education, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine discusses healthy living and aging. Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public [2/2010] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 17630]

The NUN Study

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/03/24/nuns_alzheimers_studyThe Nun Study is a longitudinal study of aging and Alzheimer's disease funded by the National Institute on Aging. Participants are 678 American members of the School Sisters of Notre Dame religious congregation who are 75 to 106 years of age.

http://sciencehack.com/videos/view/nw2lafKIEio USE TO SHOW DAVID SNOWDON AND ORIGINAL NUNS , CONVENT AND ID THE HYPOTHESIS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKcbfEbT2aU USE TO SHOW 2009 CONTINUATION OF THE STUDY

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2734290/pdf/6759.pdf

Your text here

BLUE ZONES http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_buettner_how_to_live_to_be_100.html

SHOW after explaining key studies http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/longevity/preview/daily_vid.html

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0511/sights_n_sounds/index.html PPT AUDIO DISCUSSION

BALTIMORE LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF AGINGhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETPYrpwmH6M

Gait labPublished on May 22, 2013 At the Gait Lab, which is part of the National Institute on Aging's Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging, scientists study the mechanics and components of gait in older adults.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGnNCUF90ko

How you walk may predict AZDhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHpRIEuS04E

Luigi Ferrucci, MD, PhD (Spring, 2012)http://www.nia.nih.gov/health/publication/healthy-aging-lessons-baltimore-longitudinal-study-aging/introduction

A service of the U.S. National Institutes of Health http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?recr=Open&spons=NIA

Current Aging Science (FREE copies of some issues full text articles on line )

http://www.benthamscience.com/FreeCopy.php?JCode=CAS

The STANFORD SCHOOL OF MEDICIND : The MILES Study

http://healthyaging.stanford.edu/currentRes.html

http://www.hebrewseniorlife.org/research-current-study-recruitment

http://www.aging.upmc.com/researchers/current-studies.htm#Normal

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH DESIGN: Dr. Adam Gazzaley Explores Working Memoryhttp://www.afar.org/media/videos/

Grantee Adam Gazzaley, MD, PhD, is using his recent neuroscience research to break new ground in developing therapies for memory in older adults. His work on multi-tasking in the aging brain has made headlines recently, and this new research is propelling his lab toward training brains with a video game. Dr. Adam Gazzaley is the founder of the Neuroscience Imaging Center at the University of California, San Francisco, and an associate professor of Neurology, Physiology and Psychiatry. He is a recipient of the 2005 Pfizer/AFAR Innovations in Aging Award and a 2002 Glenn/AFAR Postdoctoral Award.

LIFE EXPECTANCY RESEARCH FINDINGS video the importance of life long educationhttp://www.macfound.org/press/from-field/widening-gaps-life-expectancy-reflect-race-gender-and-education/

http://health.heraldtribune.com/2012/11/19/why-does-education-play-such-a-big-role-in-longevity/

Whitbourne

http://www.psych.umass.edu/abcstudy2

http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2011/06/umass_researchers_seek_senior.html

http://www.sfftests.webs.com/index.html

http://www.thirdage.com/giving-back/baby-boomers-find-fulfillment-making-difference

long-term data from two groups of baby boomers, were published in the September issue of the journal Developmental Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association with co-authors Joel Sneed (Queens College, NY) and Aline Sayer (University of Massachusetts Amherst). http://www.psychologytoday.com/topics/aging/essentials

http://www.gerontologyphd.umaryland.edu/resources.html

http://www.hilltopinstitute.org/index.cfm