Researchers from National Institute on Aging Report New Studies and Findings in the Area of Geriatrics and Gerontology (Moving Geroscience From the Bench To Clinical Care and Health Policy)

2021 JUL 09 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- A new study on Aging Research - Geriatrics and Gerontology is now available. According to news reporting originating from Bethesda, Maryland, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Geriatricians and others must embrace the emerging field of geroscience. Until recently geroscience research was pursued in laboratory animals, but now this field requires specialized expertise in the care of vulnerable older patients with multiple chronic diseases and geriatric syndromes, the population likely to benefit the most from emerging therapies.”

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from National Institute on Aging, “While chronological aging measures the inevitable passage of clock time that occurs equally for everyone, biological aging varies among individuals, and importantly, it is modifiable. Advances in our understanding of biological aging, the discovery of strategies for modifying its rate, and an appreciation of aging as a shared risk factor for chronic diseases have jointly led to the Geroscience Hypothesis. This hypothesis states that interventions modifying aging biology can slow its progression-resulting in the delay or prevention of the onset of multiple diseases and disorders. Here we wish to report on the Third Geroscience Summit held at National Institutes of Health on November 4-5, 2019, which highlighted the importance of engaging other disciplines including clinicians. Involvement by scientists with expertise in clinical trials, health outcomes research, behavioral and social sciences, health policy, and economics is urgently needed to translate geroscience discoveries from the bench to clinical care and health policy.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Adding to the urgency of broadening this geroscience coalition is the emergence of biological aging as one the most important modifiable factors of COVID-19, combined with the inability of our society to once again recognize and confront aging as a priority and opportunity when facing these types of public health emergencies.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Moving Geroscience From the Bench To Clinical Care and Health Policy. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2021. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society can be contacted at: Wiley, 111 River St, Hoboken 07030-5774, NJ, USA. (Wiley-Blackwell - http://www.wiley.com/; Journal of the American Geriatrics Society - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1532-5415)

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Felipe Sierra, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD 20892, United States. Additional authors for this research include Avshalom Caspi, Terrie E. Moffitt, Richard H. Fortinsky, Laura Haynes, George A. Kuchel, Gordon J. Lithgow, Eric Verdin, S. Jay Olshansky and Daniel Perry.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.17301. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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