With Silver Tsunami Coming, UT Opens Center on Aging and Longevity
Author: internet - Published 2019-01-24 06:00:00 PM - (345 Reads)This week marks the launch of the University of Texas at Austin's (UT) Texas Aging and Longevity Center, reports KXAN . The center hopes to explore issues of social isolation, early predictors of aging, and brain aging. The center will be led by Karen Fingerman and Debra Umberson from UT's Population Research Center. It is expected that one out of every five people in Texas will be older than 65 by 2040. "Older adults today are breaking barriers by working longer and staying fit and involved in their communities," Fingerman said. "But addressing optimal aging requires an adaptive society."