• Theorizing age in social theory
• Culture, subjectivity and dementia
• Global politics of old age
  History of senility from dotage to dementia

• Residential environmental quality and aging

• Demographic forecasting
• Analysis of intergenerational transfers
• Training in the demography and economics of aging
• Fiscal impacts of population aging
• Evolution of aging

• Workshop: Estimating the limits to human life expectancy

• Stochastic projections of population dynamics, Social Security

• History of human longevity
• Mortality forecasting
• Rate of aging and models of mortality
• Exceptional longevity

• Long-run aspects of fiscal policy, generational accounting, social insurance

• Retirement

• Hospital rates and regulation: Do Medicare patients pay their way?

• Economics of aging: Savings behavior, demographic trends, housing mobility, dynamic of health and mortality
  

• Social security disability programs and retirement

• Transportaiton needs and problems of the elderly.

• Effects of physical fitness and gender on substate utilization during exercise

• Environmental and nutritional effects on the aging brain

• Effect of age on muscle fatigue, and on susceptibility to upper extremity neuromuscular disorders.

• Delaying the mitochondrial decay of aging
• Nutrition and aging

• Changes in DNA repair efficiencies with aging

• Prevention of human skin aging by antioxidants
• Antioxidant protection of cataracts and disabetes induced complications
• Antioxidant regulation of oxidative stress induced cell growth responses and transcription

• Cellular aging, destabilization, and cancer

• Aging of the university: loss of function disabilities related to narrowing and hardening of research portfolio and related neuronal apparatus in basic sciences and public health.
• Biotechnology and medical cures for aging compared with understanding from perspective of population/evolutionary biology.

• Qi Gong and Tai Chi for the very elderly

Joe Napoli

• Mutual interactions of the retinoid (vitamin A) endocrine system and aging.

• Memory and cognitive function in normal aging
• Neuroimaging

• Late-life marriages
• Emotion and aging
• Dementia and emotion

• Intellectual development: Group and individual patterns

• Family structure, co-residence, and care-giving

• Visual functions not affected or minimally affected by aging
  
• Visual function in the developing world: premature aging; premature cataracts; and the special needs of the rapidly growing population of aging partially sighted individuals in the deveoloping world.  A test of vision through dense eye media opacities has been developed to help surgeons select eyes for surgery and (prior to surgery) to assess visual prognosis after surgery
  
• The study of retinal receptor orientations and functional properties in mid-high myopias and in individuals with large or long eyes. Characteristic tractional alterations (transient and stable) in alignments of receptors are found in extended retinal areas about, and upon the blind spots of these eyes.  Retina and choroid commonly displace from their attachment nasally on the optic nerve, and over-ride the blind spot with maintained vision! Now we ask, does this represent a release from persistent tractional forces, or does this anomaly portend added serious myopic changes occurring later in life?

• The Relation between vision function, problems with daily living and driving performance
• Predicting future loss of visual acuity on the basis of low contrast tests of vision.
  Understanding the loss of reading ability with age.

• Economics of aging and health services

• Intergenerational issues
• Health promotion and aging
• The political economy of aging

• Epidemiology of aging and physical performance
• Health and functioning in older women with breast cancer

• Medicare costs and risk factors for heart disease
• Health promotion and disease prevention for the elderly

• Aging policy analysis and development
• Gerontological social work education
• Long-term care services
• Family caregiving