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Aging Successfully lecture series
Catherine "Kay" Stratton was first lady of the Institute from 1959-66, when her late husband, Julius Adams Stratton, was MIT's president. She initiated the Aging Successfully lecture series, which is now part of the Catherine Stratton Lecture Series established by the MIT Women's League in her honor. Recent lectures have included: Exercise and Aging: Outrunning Father Time and Hormones & The Hands of Time. MIT AgeLab The MIT AgeLab was created to invent new ideas and creatively translate technologies into practical solutions that improve people's health and enable them to stay active throughout their lives. Based within MIT's School of Engineering Engineering Systems Division, the AgeLab has assembled a multi-disciplinary and global team of researchers, business partners, universities, and the aging community to design, develop and deploy innovations to improve quality of life. Read more about the MIT AgeLab, find resources for resolving the complex problems of aging well and see how the AgeLab suggests talking to an elder about giving up the car keys. The Fountain of Health Antiaging researchers could provide a powerful approach to treating the many diseases of old age Lenny Guarente has spent much of the last two decades patiently chipping away at the genetic and biochemical underpinnings of the aging process, an area of research often plagued by extreme hyperbole and extravagant claims. The MIT biologist is particularly focused on one tantalizing clue: for about 70 years, researchers have known that rats tend to live longer when fed a diet that is adequate in nutrition but very low in calories. While biologists are still unsure whether severe calorie restriction will have the same antiaging effect on humans, Guarente believes he and his fellow researchers have found the genes and a mechanism responsible for delaying the aging process -- at least in lower organisms. Read a Q&A interview with MIT biologist Lenny Guarente. MIT research on Alzheimer's Read about MIT's research into Alzheimer's disease with articles from the MIT News Office and Technology Review Resources for the MIT community For the last 15 years, Dawn Metcalf, L.I.C.S.W., has served as an MIT resource on aging--helping retirees and other older members of the community identify resources and presenting workshops in conjunction with the MIT Center for Work, Family & Personal Life. Metcalf also consults with the adult children of aging parents, assisting them with the logistics of long-term planning and the far thornier issues of renegotiating and redefining the parent-child relationship. "It can be hard for a middle-aged child to navigate this role reversal, to feel like he or she can legitimately be in charge of a parent," Metcalf says. "The adult child may be a very high-level executive, but when she deals with her parents, she's still 'the kid.' Being able to talk with someone like me, who can act as a sort of coach, can be really helpful." MIT named to AARP top employer list MIT has once again been named to AARP's list of the 50 Best Employers for Workers Over 50, the fourth time the Institute has won the distinction since the group began compiling the list in 2001. |
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