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Healthy life, healthy aging
August 11th, 2010 | 
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Experts from the Brandeis University discussed their research work to improve the number of years lived and their quality.
Waltham, Mass How does the inflammation caused by stress, affecting the aging? What we can do to avoid the threat of public health and the economic crisis of an epidemic of neurological diseases caused by rapid growth of elderly population? How to manage the older adults to keep a perspective optimistic for the inevitable decline? How to improve the memory function?
These and many other questions are the focus of the inaugural conference of the initiative of Brandeis, “Duration of Healthy Aging” (LIHA) to be held April 3 in the Conference Center Hassenfeld Brandeis University.
Open to all public, the conference show the interdisciplinary research on healthy aging, focusing on biomedical research, behavioral and social factors that influence the aging. Read the rest of this entry »