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Extending Life, Enhancing Life: A National Research Agenda on Aging (1991)

Chapter: Appendix B: Background Documents

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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Background Documents." Institute of Medicine. 1991. Extending Life, Enhancing Life: A National Research Agenda on Aging. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/1632.
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Background Documents

For this study, the Institute of Medicine invited reports on various topics concerning research in aging. The manuscripts of four of these documents are available from the National Technical Information Service, 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA 22161, (703) 487-4650.

  • “Opportunities in Basic Biomedical Research,” Basic Biomedical Research Liaison Team, Institute of Medicine.

  • “Opportunities in Clinical Research,” Clinical Research Liaison Team, Institute of Medicine.

  • “Opportunities in Behavioral and Social Sciences Research,” Behavioral and Social Sciences Liaison Team, Institute of Medicine.

  • “Opportunities in Health Services Delivery Research,” Health Services Delivery Research Liaison Team, Institute of Medicine.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Background Documents." Institute of Medicine. 1991. Extending Life, Enhancing Life: A National Research Agenda on Aging. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/1632.
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Americans are living longer than ever before. For many, though, these extra years have become a bitter gift, marred by dementia, disability, and loss of independence.

Extending Life, Enhancing Life sets the course toward practical solutions to these problems by specifying 15 research priorities in five key areas of investigation:

  • Basic biomedicine—To understand the fundamental processes of aging.
  • Clinical—To intervene against common disabilities and maladies of older persons.
  • Behavioral and social—To build on past successes with behavioral and social interventions.
  • Health services delivery—To seek answers to the troubling issues of insufficient delivery of health care in the face of increasing health care costs.
  • Biomedical ethics—To clarify underlying ethical guidelines about life and death decisions.

Most important, the volume firmly establishes the connection between research and its beneficial results for the quality of life for older persons.

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