Growing Old Before Their Time: Measuring Aging

National institute on aging: new focus on growing old.

Though the leaves are many, the root is one; / Through all the lying days of my youth / I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun; / Now I may wither into the truth.-W. B. YEATS, "The Coming of Wisdom with Time"

Mesotheliomas all: long before their time.

Editorial Mesotheliomas all : long before their time In 1935 in the Ulster Medical Journal, Campbell and Young' reported a cluster of three cases of pleural tumour which they had observed in Belfast within five months. They concluded that each was a primary tumour of the pleura and they entitled their paper: "A Primary Tumour (Mixed-Cell Sarcoma) of the Pleura" The case reports are predominantl...

On Growing Old

greater pleasure in that it enables me to renew an acquaintance with a City?and a University?with which I have had such pleasant associations. I want to use the ?Pportunity to discuss with you some of the problems of ageing, both subjective and ??jective, individual and social, but I must hasten to make it clear that my approach be descriptive rather than hortatory, and that it is no part of my...

Parents Growing Old

Old before its time: HIPAA and e-health policy.