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Subject: Longevity Dividend Symposium, Sept 12, 11am-1pm, Wash DC
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 13:25:03 -0600

Going For the Longevity Dividend:
Scientific Goals for the World's Aging Populations

A Capitol Hill Symposium and Luncheon
September 12, 2006 11AM-1PM. Hart Senate Office Bldg. #902

Aspirations for extended years of health and independence are soaring as
longer lived populations increase dramatically around the globe.
Meanwhile, greater longevity, especially in developed countries, places
national health expenditures at risk from a "Silver Tsunami" of chronic
diseases and disabilities, from Alzheimer's to congestive heart failure,
cancer, stroke, diabetes, vision loss and general frailty among the old.
Advancing knowledge from biogerontology and innovation in medicine and
health hold vast potential to alleviate these conditions. But are
governments ready to make healthy aging a major research priority? Is it
feasible to delay the onset of many long-term illnesses by intervening
directly in the aging processes of our species? Do governments,
universities and industry have sufficient incentives and tools to
achieve a beneficial Longevity Dividend? What are the social, economic
and political consequences of healthier aging? 

These are some of the provocative questions to be discussed at a
mini-symposium on Capitol Hill on September 12, 2006. At this gathering,
a signed statement from scores of internationally prominent scientists
will be presented. The statement will attest to growing expectations
among researchers that human aging is modifiable in ways that could
extend youthful vigor and simultaneously postpone costly, disabling and
lethal conditions expressed at later ages. 

Presentations will include: 

I. How Soon Before Science Can Slow Aging and At What Cost? 

S. Jay Olshansky, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago 
Leonard Guarente, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

II. Can Older Populations make Nations Both Healthier and Wealthier? 

Robert Fogel, Ph.D., Nobel Laureate University of Chicago Graduate
School of Business 
Robert N. Butler, MD, Founding Director, National Institute on Aging 

III. International Perspectives 

Alex Kalache, Director Ageing and Health Program, World Health
Organization (WHO) 
James Goodwin, Ph.D., Head of Research, Help the Aged, London, England 

IV. View to the Future 

Dr. Alan Leshner, CEO, American Association for the Advancment of
Science 

V. Summary and Concluding Remarks 

Daniel Perry, Executive Director, Alliance for Aging Research 

This event has been supported by a grant from The Florence S. Mahoney
Foundation 

Please click here to RSVP, or contact Sarah Rhyne
() at (202) 293-2856. 

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