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Canada Creates Institute of Healthy Aging

Tue, 08/15/2000 - 11:00pm — Karen Stevenson
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The Governing Council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research have approved the names and mandates of 13 "Virtual Institutes" including the Institute of Healthy Aging. The recruitment process for Scientific Directors and Institute Advisory Boards will begin immediately.

The mandate of the CIHR Institute of Healthy Aging is to support research to promote healthy aging and to address causes, prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, support systems, and palliation for a wide range of conditions associated with aging. Research areas include long-term health promotion policies and strategies (individual, community, and population levels); health determinants - to elucidate the multi-dimensional factors that affect the health of aging populations and lead to a differential prevalence of health concerns; application of knowledge regarding health advantage and health risk factor to prevent or postpone functional disability disease, injury, and disability prevention (or postponement; factors which enable the elderly to remain independent: e.g. community characteristics, housing, transportation, volunteers; and geriatrics research: best practice research on care of the elderly (e.g. service delivery, co-morbidity, medication use and mis-use, iatrogenic problems, rehabilitation, palliation).

The Governing Council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research have approved the names and mandates of 13 "Virtual Institutes" including the Institute of Healthy Aging. The recruitment process for Scientific Directors and Institute Advisory Boards will begin immediately.

The mandate of the CIHR Institute of Healthy Aging is to support research to promote healthy aging and to address causes, prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, support systems, and palliation for a wide range of conditions associated with aging. Research areas include long-term health promotion policies and strategies (individual, community, and population levels); health determinants - to elucidate the multi-dimensional factors that affect the health of aging populations and lead to a differential prevalence of health concerns; application of knowledge regarding health advantage and health risk factor to prevent or postpone functional disability disease, injury, and disability prevention (or postponement; factors which enable the elderly to remain independent: e.g. community characteristics, housing, transportation, volunteers; and geriatrics research: best practice research on care of the elderly (e.g. service delivery, co-morbidity, medication use and mis-use, iatrogenic problems, rehabilitation, palliation).