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From: David Stodolsky <>
Subject: Community Attitudes and Approaches towards Human Life Extensi...
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 22:00:41 +0100

3rd International Conference on Healthy Ageing & Longevity
Melbourne Convention Centre, VIC, Australia
Friday 13th - Sunday 15th October 2006
Co-sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO)



<http://www.socgeriatria.cl/documentos/congresos/3rd_ICHAL_Melbourne_October_1315_2006_Preliminar_y_Programme.pdf
 >

 Community Attitudes and Approaches towards Human Life Extension 
Chair: Prof. S. Jay Olshansky, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.
1. Attitudes and Beliefs about Human Life Extension
Dr. Nathan Kogan, Matthew Porter, Jennifer Tucker, New School for  
Social Research, Psychology
Department, New York, USA.
2. Who Wants to Live Forever? Community attitudes to life extension
Dr. Mair Underwood, Australasian Centre on Ageing, the University of  
Queensland, Brisbane, Qld,
Australia.
3. Usage of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by Elderly  
Australians:
A National Population-Based Study in 2005
Lin Zhang, Division of Chinese Medicine, School of Health Sciences,  
World Health Organization
Collaborating Centre for Traditional Medicine, RMIT University,  
Melbourne, Australia.
4. Anti-Ageing Medicine in Australia and Global Trends to Redefine  
Ageing
Beatriz Cardona, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western  
Sydney, NSW, Australia.
5. Panel Discussion

 Psychosocial Predictors of Healthy Ageing and Longevity   Lessons  
learned from Longitudinal
Studies 
Chair: Prof. Colette Browning, Professor of Healthy Ageing, Monash  
University, Australia. Convenor,
Healthy Ageing Theme, ARC/NHMRC Research Network in Ageing Well.
1. Lifestyle factors for dementia: The Dubbo Study Additions to the  
Picture
Prof. John McCallum, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Director TAFE,  
Victoria University, Melbourne,
Australia.
1. Fit and Well at 80: Defying the stereotypes of age and illness
Prof. Julie E. Byles, Director, Centre for Research and Education in  
Ageing (CREA), The University of
Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
2. Healthy Ageing for People with Disability
Dr. Susan M. Allen, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
3. The Will to Live and Survival at Old Age: Gender Differences
Prof. Sara Carmel, The Center for Multidisciplinary Research in Aging,  
Faculty of Health Sciences,
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
4. Perceptions of age and ageing, experiences of ageing and health: Do  
positive thinking about ageing
and positive ageing experience relate to better health?
Dr. Panayotes Demakakos, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health,  
University College London
(UCL), London, UK.


Lots of stuff on diet and other physical factors related to ageing  
also in the above doc.



http://www.longevity-international.com/




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