MORE RECENT RESEARCH SITES WILL BE ADDED BY FEBRUARY 15, 2000. Web Site Description HERE ARE EXAMPLES OF THE LATEST RESEARCH ON AGING.   SINCE I CONSIDER THIS A VERY IMPORTANT TOPIC,  THE DESCRIPTION OF EACH WEB SITE IS QUITE DETAILED FOR YOUR BENEFIT. http://www.coag.uvic.ca/ THE CENTER ON AGING . . . is a multidisciplinary research center established to advance knowledge through excellence in research in the field of lifespan with an emphasis on aging. Our mandate also includes distribution of information and dialogue with community partners. The Center promotes and conducts basic and applied research through the life span, with particular emphasis on the later years. Center on Aging http://www.arclab.org/ The Aging Research Center is dedicated to providing a service that allows researchers in this field to find information that is related to the study of the aging process. We also endeavor to introduce this field to laymen who would like to know more about the research that is being conducted in this field. The Aging Research Center http://www.yahoo.com/Health/Geriatrics_and_Aging/ An excellent resource of links to sites on Gerontology! Yahoo! Seniors Guide http://elo.mediasrv.swt.edu/goldenage/script.htm Travel GoldenAge's Global Net To Senior Sites Around The World. More than 300 WWW links. GoldenAge.Net has been recognized by USA TODAY, McKnight's Long Term Care News, and Contemporary Long Term Care Magazine as a great starting point for Internet research on "aging" topics. Since its debut in October 1995 it has been linked to by private, commercial and governmental home pages from across the Internet. GoldenAge http://www.hcoa.org/ The Baylor College of Medicine research on aging site. Incredibly informative. It seeks to improve the condition of older people through its programs of research, education, and training in the Texas Medical Center. Huffington Center on Aging http://www.iog.wayne.edu/ Do not let this site intimidate you. The faculty of the Institute of Gerontology conducts independent research and work with other university departments, institutes, and centers in collaborative research projects. Institute investigators receive funding from a variety of public and private agencies and foundations. They focus primarily on seven specific research areas: health/long-term care, intergenerational relationships/life span development, minority elderly, public policy, retirement/the older worker, literary gerontology, and gero-engineering. The Institute regularly hosts a wide range of seminars, roundtables, and other events which address numerous aspects of aging and the concerns of older people. The Institute also sponsors many programs on education in aging. They recently re-established a Faculty Associates program and a Community Associates program. The Chinese character used in all Institute of Gerontology publications means longevity. A prevailing theory among Chinese language experts is that the longevity character evolved from an older character symbolizing a turtle. Well known for their extraordinarily long lives, turtles have traditionally been admired in China and used when honoring a person who has lived a lengthy life. Institute of Gerontology http://www-lib.usc.edu/Info/Gero/gerourl.htm This page provides links to the Internet sources on aging and its related interests. It is intended to be useful for the educators, researchers, practitioners, and other individuals interested in the study of gerontology and geriatrics. You may browse links below. Additional sources of information on aging can be found at USC in the Gerontology Library located in the Andrus Gerontology Center. Andrus Gerontology Library http://www.asaging.org/ This is the only site I can find so far on gerontology that crosses cultures and sexual proclivities.  It is an amazing site. It covers such topics as (1) religion, Spirituality, and Aging, (2) Business and Aging, (3) Aging, Disability, and Rehabilitation, (4) Older Adult Education, (5) Managed Care and Aging, (6) Mental Health and Aging, (7) Lesbian and Gay Aging Issues, and (8) Multcultural Aging. American Society on Aging http://utl2.library.utoronto.ca/www/aging/DEPTHOME.HTML The Institute has its origins in the Program in Gerontology. The Program in Gerontology was founded in 1979 and was succeeded by the Center for Studies of Aging in 1989, with a mandate to carry out research into the process of aging, population aging, and the aged in the social, psychological, biological and health sciences. The Center was the headquarters for CARNET: The Canadian Aging Research Network, a national network of researchers that undertook a program of research funded by the federal government's Networks of Centers of Excellence program. The Center also housed the Issues of an Aging Workforce Project which produced seven case studies based on companies or industrial settings in Canada and the United States. The Center was then transformed, creating the Institute for Human Development, Life Course and Aging in 1996, and broadening its vision to include the entire life course. The previous interests in adult life course and aging of the the former Center are now supplemented by research on child development, the transition from education to employment, and mid-life transitions. The new Institute is a multidisciplinary forum of research and its members come from 10 faculties and 15 departments. The principal mandate of the Institute is to conduct basic, multidisciplinary research from a social science perspective on human development, the life course and aging. A second mandate is to support graduate and post-graduate education in the area of the life course and aging. Recognizing that aging is a multi-faceted process, the Institute places emphasis on multi- and interdisciplinary research. It undertakes collaborative projects with departments and faculties across the University; it endeavors to develop and maintain close links with researchers in other universities and to liaise with government and social agencies. While the primary focus is research, the Institute also has a mandate to generate educational opportunities at the graduate level. At the present time it offers general support to graduate students, including supervision, study space, and the opportunity to participate in Institute activities. The Institute acts as the academic coordinator of the post-graduate, part-time Diploma in Gerontology delivered through Woodsworth College. A collaborative doctoral program is being developed. Seminars, lectures and informal discussion groups take place on a regular basis and play an important role in the Institute's activities. As a service to the University and in collaboration with Human Resources, the Institute coordinates and supervises a series of pre-retirement seminars for University faculty and staff. Institute For Human Development, Life Course and Aging http://www.aoa.dhhs.gov/aoa/pages/jpostlst.html This site includes metasites, web sites, e-mail discussion groups/listserves, freenets, the commercial online services, and USENET Newsgroups. Other standard categories of information in this directory are: associations and conferences, educational programs, government agencies and organizations, news sources, online and regular publications, research, and subdivisions by country or smaller geographic breakdowns, where appropriate. Internet and E-mail Resources On Aging: an Online Directory http://www.aoa.dhhs.gov/aoa/webres/craig.htm Every thing you need to know about aging in the most recent research. Do Not Miss This Web Site. Directory of Web Sites on Aging http://www.nih.gov/nia/ The National Institute on Aging (NIA) is one of the National Institutes of Health, the principal biomedical research agency of the United States Government. The NIA promotes healthy aging by conducting and supporting biomedical, social, and behavioral research and public education. The National Institute on Aging http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/medline?aging+%26+theory A huge list of research papers on every thing regarding the process of aging.  [WARNING> All links on this page are unstable, i.e. the documents they reference may change with time.] National Center For Biotechnolgy Information http://www.iog.wayne.edu/GeroWebSearch.html Brought to you by the Graduate Student Organization and the GeroInformatics Workgroup at the Wayne State University Institute of Gerontology, GeroWeb is designed as an online resource for researchers, educators, practitioners, and others interested in aging and older individuals. The GeroWeb Virtual Library on Aging http://www.umich.edu/~hrswww/ The Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) are nationally representative longitudinal data collections begun in the early 1990s that examine retirement and the aging of society. University of Michigan Aging Study MORE RECENT RESEARCH SITES WILL BE ADDED BY FEBRUARY 15, 2000.