Survival and life span

Life Span and Disability

Psychiatric functioning and disability have historically been considered separate from the broader disability field and have been measured differently than other medical conditions. This paper provides an overview of the current concepts and international advances in the classification of psychiatric disability and explores the controversies and goals within the proposed systems. It highlights ...

Life Course, Environment Change, and Life Span

Aging, life span, and senescence.

Research in the field of aging recently has entered a new era. Model systems have begun to provide insight into cellular, molecular, and organismal changes that are related intimately to aging. One important approach has been the identification of genes that determine the life span of an organism. The very existence of genes that when mutated can extend life span suggests that one or a few proc...

Life Span Development

Reports research findings specifically examining the critical initial stage of engaging older residents in community development activities and the practice of community development with older adults in multi-cultural settings. In its Global Age Friendly Cities project, the World Health Organization identifies social engagement as one indicator of an Age Friendly Community. Such engagement can ...

Life Span of Multipotential Hematopoietic

The hematopoietic system is maintained throughout adult life by a population of immature precursors known as the multipotential stem cells . These stem cells are unique within the system in that they have the capacity to generate progeny of all the blood cell lineages, as well as the capacity to generate cells with a potential similar to their own, a characteristic often referred to as self-ren...