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August 2002, Vol 92, No. 8 | American Journal of Public Health 1214-1216
© 2002 American Public Health Association

EDITORIAL

Public Health and the Second 50 Years of Life

Steven M. Albert, PhD, MSc, Ashley Im, MPH and Victoria H. Raveis, PhD

The authors are with the Mailman School of Public Health, Program in Aging and Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Steven M. Albert, PhD, MSc, Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, PH-19, 630 W 168th St, New York, NY 10032 (e-mail: sma10@columbia.edu).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.


   INTRODUCTION
 
Aging is the maturation and senescence of biological systems. With each additional decade of life, adults will see a number of changes, for example, a slowing in reaction time, psychomotor speed, and verbal memory; declines in strength and walking speed; a decreased rate of urine flow; loss of skeletal muscle; and, of course, greater mortality. They will also see declines in addictive behaviors and crime; a reduction in severe psychiatric disorders; stability in psychological well-being; continuing increases in vocabulary; greater selectivity in friendship and increased contact with close family; less need for novel stimuli; and increases in wealth, leisure time, . . . [Full Text]


   PATHWAYS TO DISABILITY
 

   MODIFYING THE PATHWAYS
 

   RESEARCH ON AGING
 



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