“Health, United States, 2017,” (September 2018, .pdf format, 75p.). Note: This years edition contains a special feature on mortality.
September 20, 2018
CAAR – US National Center for Health Statistics Report – September 20, 2018
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CAAR – Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Statistical Brief – September 20, 2018
“Any Use and Frequent Use of Opioids among Elderly Adults in 2015-2016, by Socioeconomic Characteristics,” by Asako S. Moriya and G. Edward Miller (Statistical Brief 515, September 2018, .pdf and HTML format, 7p.).
meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_stats/Pub_ProdResults_Details.jsp?pt=Statistical+Brief&opt=2&id=1237
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CAAR – Canadian Institute for Health Information/Institut Canadien D’information Sur La Sante Report – September 20, 2018
“Access to Palliative Care in Canada,” (September 2018, .pdf format, 66p.).
www.cihi.ca/en/access-data-and-reports/access-to-palliative-care-in-canada
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CAAR – Public Library of Science (PLoS) Articles – September 20, 2018
A. “The risk of developing cancer following metal-on-metal hip replacement compared with non metal-on-metal hip bearings: Findings from a prospective national registry “The National Joint Registry of England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man”,” by Linda P. Hunt, Ashley W. Blom, Gulraj S. Matharu, Martyn L. Porter, and Michael R. Whitehouse (PLoS ONE 13(9): e0204356. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204356, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 19p.).
journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0204356
B. “The relationship between nursing home quality and costs: Evidence from the VA,” by Kathleen Carey, Shibei Zhao, A. Lynn Snow, and Christine W. Hartmann (PLoS ONE 13(9): e0203764. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0203764, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, p.).
journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0203764
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CAAR – Table of Contents – September 20, 2018
Journals of Gerontology (B): Psychological Sciences (Vol. 73B, No. 7, October 2018).
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September 18, 2018
CAAR – Public Library of Science (PLoS) Article – September 18, 2018
“One-legged stance sway of older adults with and without falls,” by Marcio R. Oliveira, Edgar R. Vieira, André W. O. Gil, Karen B. P. Fernandes, Denilson C. Teixeira, Cesar F. Amorim, and Rubens A. da Silva (PLoS ONE 13(9): e0203887. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0203887, HTML, XML, and .pdf format, 9p.).
journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0203887
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CAAR – Journal of the American Medical Association Article Abstract – September 18, 2018
“Discriminative Accuracy of [18F]flortaucipir Positron Emission Tomography for Alzheimer Disease vs Other Neurodegenerative Disorders,” by Rik Ossenkoppele, Gil D. Rabinovici, Ruben Smith, Hanna Cho, Michael Scholl, Olof Strandberg, Sebastian Palmqvist, Niklas Mattsson, Shorena Janelidze, Alexander Santillo, Tomas Ohlsson, Jonas Jogi, Richard Tsai, Renaud La Joie, Joel Kramer, Adam L. Boxer, Maria L. Gorno-Tempini, Bruce L. Miller, Jae Y. Choi, Young H. Ryu, Chul H. Lyoo, and Oskar Hansson (Vol. 320, No. 11, September 18, 2018).
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CAAR – Commonwealth Fund Issue Brief – September 18, 2018
“A Policy Option to Enhance Access and Affordability for Medicare’s Low-Income Beneficiaries,” by Cathy Schoen, Karen Davis, Amber Willink, and Christine Buttorff (September 2018, .pdf format, 14p.).
www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2018/sep/medicare-low-income-beneficiaries
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CAAR – AARP Public Policy Institute Report – September 18, 2018
“An Aging Labor Force and the Challenges of 65+ Jobseekers,” by Jen Schramm (September 2018, .pdf format, 11p.).
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September 17, 2018
CAAR – US Centers for Disease Control Article – September 17, 2018
“Prevalence of Chronic Pain and High-Impact Chronic Pain Among Adults — United States, 2016,” by James Dahlhamer, Jacqueline Lucas, Carla Zelaya, Richard Nahin, Sean Mackey, Lynn DeBar, Robert Kerns, Michael Von Korff, Linda Porter, and Charles Helmick (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Vol. 67, No. 36, September 14, 2018, .pdf and HTML format, p. 1001-1006).
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CAAR – National Bureau of Economic Research Working Papers – September 17, 2018
Links to an abstract are available. For full text availability check your organization’s library.
A. “Understanding Joint Retirement,” by Pierre-Carl Michaud, Arthur van Soest, and Luc Bissonnette (w25030, September 2018, .pdf format, 45p.).
B. “The Long-Term Consequences of Having Fewer Children in Old Age: Evidence from China’s “Later, Longer, Fewer” Campaign,” by Yi Chen and Hanming Fang (w25041, September 2018, .pdf format, 53p.).
C. “Mortality Risk, Insurance, and the Value of Life,” by Daniel Bauer, Darius Lakdawalla, Julian Reif (w25055, September 2018, .pdf format, 53p.).
D. “Biology Meets Behavior in a Clinical Trial: Two Relationships Between Mortality and Mammogram Receipt,” by Amanda E. Kowalski (w25049, Setpember 2018, .pdf format, 28p.).
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CAAR – Family Caregiver Alliance Funding Periodical – September 17, 2018
– Caregiving PolicyDigest (Vol. 18, No. 8, September 13, 2018).
myemail.constantcontact.com/Caregiving-Policy-Digest—Vol–18–No–8.html
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CAAR – Tables of Contents – September 17, 2018
Clinical Gerontologist (Vol. 41, No. 5, 2018).
www.tandfonline.com/toc/wcli20/41/5
Gerontologist (Vol. 58, No. 5, October 2018).
academic.oup.com/gerontologist/issue/58/5
Journal of Applied Gerontology (Vol. 37, No. 10, October 2018).
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September 14, 2018
CAAR – US National Institutes of Health Funding Opportunities – September 14, 2018
A. “Clinician-Scientists Transdisciplinary Aging Research (Clin-STAR) Coordinating Center: Synergizing Career Development toward Improved Care of Older Adults across Specialties and Disciplines (U24 – Clinical Trial Optional),” (RFA-AG-19-024, National Institute on Aging, application deadline February 4, 2018).
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AG-19-024.html
B. “NIH Blueprint Program for Enhancing Neuroscience Diversity through Undergraduate Research Education Experiences (R25),” (RFA-NS-19-007, a reissue of RFA-NS-14-010, National Institute on Aging, in conjunction with other agencies, application deadline February 15, 2018).
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CAAR – Medicare Payment Advisory Commission Hearing Transcript – September 14, 2018
– An agenda and transcript of the September 6-7, 2018 meeting is available.
www.medpac.gov/-public-meetings-/meeting-details/september-2018-public-meeting
Transcript (.pdf format, 272p.):
www.medpac.gov/docs/default-source/default-document-library/medpac-meeting-transcripts-9-2018.pdf
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September 13, 2018
CAAR – Journal of the American Medical Association Article Abstracts – September 13, 2018
A. “Association of Hospital Participation in a Medicare Bundled Payment Program With Volume and Case Mix of Lower Extremity Joint Replacement Episodes,” by Amol S. Navathe, Joshua M. Liao, Sarah E. Dykstra, Erkuan Wang, Zoe M. Lyon, Yash Shah, Joseph Martinez, Dylan S. Small, Rachel M. Werner, Claire Dinh, Xinshuo Ma, and Ezekiel J. Emanuel (Vol. 320, No. 9, September 4, 2018, p. 901-910).
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2698926
B. “Mandatory Medicare Bundled Payment Program for Lower Extremity Joint Replacement and Discharge to Institutional Postacute Care: Interim Analysis of the First Year of a 5-Year Randomized Trial,” by Amy Finkelstein, Yunan Ji, Neale Mahoney, and Jonathan Skinner (Vol. 320, No. 9, September 4, 2018, p. 892-900).
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CAAR – Nature Letter Abstract – September 13, 2018
“Parkin and PINK1 mitigate STING-induced inflammation,” by Danielle A. Sliter, Jennifer Martinez, Ling Hao, Xi Chen, Nuo Sun, Tara D. Fischer, Jonathon L. Burman, Yan Li, Zhe Zhang, Derek P. Narendra, Huaibin Cai, Max Borsche, Christine Klein & Richard J. Youle (Vol. 561, No. 7722, September 13, 2018, p. 258-262).
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CAAR – National Academy of Social Insurance Report – September 13, 2018
“Changing Medicare Eligibility: Program Design Challenges,” by Paul N. Van de Water (No. 15, September 2018, .pdf format, 16p.).
www.nasi.org/research/2018/changing-medicare-eligibility-program-design-challenges
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CAAR – Tables of Contents – September 13, 2018
Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease (Vol. 65, No. 3, 2018).
content.iospress.com/journals/journal-of-alzheimers-disease/65/3
Journals of Gerontology (A): Biological Sciences (Vol. 73A, No. 10, October 2018).
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September 12, 2018
CAAR – US National Center for Health Statistic Report – September 12, 2018
“U.S. Small-area Life Expectancy Estimates Project: Methodology and Results Summary,” by Charles J. Rothwell, Jennifer H. Madans, Delton Atkinson, and Hanyu Ni (Vital and Health Statistics, Series 2, No. 181, September 2018, .pdf format, 31p.).
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September 11, 2018
CAAR – Employee Benefit Research Institute Issue Brief – September 11, 2018
“Perceived Helpfulness of Financial Well-being Programs: Results From the 2017 and 2018 Retirement Confidence Survey,” by Craig Copeland (EBRI Issue Brief No. 457, September 2018, .pdf format, 19p.).
www.ebri.org/publications/ib/index.cfm?fa=ibDisp&content_id=3708
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CAAR – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Article Abstracts – September 11, 2018
A. “Multidimensional comparison of countries’ adaptation to societal aging,” by Cynthia Chen, Dana P. Goldman, Julie Zissimopoulos, John W. Rowe, and Research Network on an Aging Society (Vol. 115, No. 37, September 12, 2018, p. 9169-9174).
www.pnas.org/content/115/37/9169
B. “The impact of exposure to air pollution on cognitive performance,” by Xin Zhang, Xi Chen, and Xiaobo Zhang (Vol. 115, No. 37, September 12, 2018, p. 9193-9197).
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CAAR – Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Report – September 11, 2018
“Older Australia at a glance, 2017,” (September 2017, HTML format).
www.aihw.gov.au/reports/older-people/older-australia-at-a-glance/contents/summary
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CAAR – National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Monograph – September 11, 2018
Physician-Assisted Death: Scanning the Landscape: Proceedings of a Workshop, Rebecca A. English, Catharyn T. Liverman, Caroline M. Cilio, and Joe Alper, Rapporteurs (National Academies Press, 2018, 178p., OpenBook and .pdf format). Note: More information, including purchasing information, for a print copy is available at the site. NAP requires free registration before providing a .pdf copy.
www.nap.edu/catalog/25131/physician-assisted-death-scanning-the-landscape-proceedings-of-a-workshop
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CAAR – Table of Contents – September 11, 2018
Alzheimer’s and Dementia (Vol. 14, No. 9, September 2018).
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September 10, 2018
CAAR – US Government Accountability Office Report – September 10, 2018
“Medicare Advantage: Benefits and Challenges of Payment Adjustments Based on Beneficiaries’ Ability to Perform Daily Tasks,” (GAO-18-588, September 2018, .pdf format, 29p.).
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CAAR – National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper – September 10, 2018
Links to an abstract are available. For full text availability check your organization’s library. “Transitions From Career Employment Among Public- and Private-Sector Workers,” by Joseph F. Quinn, Kevin E. Cahill, and Michael D. Giandrea (w25003, September 2018, .pdf format, 38p.).
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CAAR – Oxford University Press Book – September 10, 2018
How Persistent Low Returns Will Shape Saving and Retirement, edited by Olivia S. Mitchell, Robert Clark, and Raimond Maurer (August 2018, ISBN: 9780198827443, 256p.).
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CAAR – UK Office for National Statistics Statistical Bulletin – September 10, 2018
“Occupational Pension Schemes Survey: UK, 2017,” (September 2018, .pdf and HTML format, 14p.).
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CAAR – AGing Integrated Database Data Release – September 10, 2018
– Version 2.43: Data Chartbooks for 2017 National Survey of OAA Participants (NSOAAP) – September 6, 2018
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CAAR – Human Mortality Database Data Release – September 10, 2018
– Austria revised and updated through 2017 (September 5, 2018)
– Poland revised and updated through 2016 (September 5, 2018)
www.mortality.org/Public/WhatsNew.php
Data Access:
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September 6, 2018
CAAR – US House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Hearing Testimony – September 6, 2018
“Examining Federal Efforts To Ensure Quality Of Care And Resident Safety In Nursing Homes,” a hearing held September 6, 2018 (witness statements available in .pdf format, video of the full hearing available at the site, running time 1 hour 47 minutes). Note: The hearing begins at the 12:03 mark.
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CAAR – Public Library of Science (PLoS) Articles – September 6, 2018
A. “The relationship between depression and cognitive function in adults with cardiovascular risk: Evidence from a randomised attention-controlled trial,” by Haley M. LaMonica, Daniel J. Biddle, Sharon L. Naismith, Ian B. Hickie, Paul Maruff, and Nicholas Glozier (PLoS ONE 13(9): e0203343. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0203343, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 14p.).
journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0203343
B. “Informal caregiving and personality: Results of a population-based longitudinal study in Germany,” by André Hajek and Hans-Helmut König (PLoS ONE 13(9): e0203586. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0203586, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 11p.).
journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0203586
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CAAR – Science Article Abstract – September 6, 2018
“Combined adult neurogenesis and BDNF mimic exercise effects on cognition in an Alzheimer’s mouse model,” by By Se Hoon Choi, Enjana Bylykbashi, Zena K. Chatila, Star W. Lee, Benjamin Pulli, Gregory D. Clemenson, Eunhee Kim, Alexander Rompala, Mary K. Oram, Caroline Asselin, Jenna Aronson, Can Zhang, Sean J. Miller, Andrea Lesinski, John W. Chen, Doo Yeon Kim, Henriette van Praag, Bruce M. Spiegelman, Fred H. Gage, Rudolph E. Tanzi (Vol. 361, No. 6406, September 7, 2018).
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CAAR – Nature Letter Abstract – September 6, 2018
“Structures of filaments from Pick’s disease reveal a novel tau protein fold,” Benjamin Falcon, Wenjuan Zhang, Alexey G. Murzin, Garib Murshudov, Holly J. Garringer, Ruben Vidal, R. Anthony Crowther, Bernardino Ghetti, Sjors H. W. Scheres & Michel Goedert (Vol. 561, No. 7721, September 6, 2018, p. 137-140).
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CAAR – Table of Contents – September 6, 2018
Journal of Population Aging (Vol. 11, No. 3, September 2018).
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September 5, 2018
CAAR – Employee Benefit Research Institute Issue Brief – September 5, 2018
“EBRI IRA Database: IRA Balances, Contributions, Rollovers, Withdrawals, and Asset Allocation, 2016 Update,” by Craig Copeland (Issue Brief No. 456, August 2018, .pdf format, 48p.).
www.ebri.org/publications/ib/index.cfm?fa=ibDisp&content_id=3702
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CAAR – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Article Abstracts – September 5, 2018
A. “Inflammasome-derived cytokine IL18 suppresses amyloid-induced seizures in Alzheimer-prone mice,” by Te-Chen Tzeng, Yuto Hasegawa, Risa Iguchi, Amy Cheung, Daniel R. Caffrey, Elizabeth Jeanne Thatcher, Wenjie Mao, Gail Germain, Nelsy DePaula Tamburro, Shigeo Okabe, Michael T. Heneka, Eicke Latz, Kensuke Futai, and Douglas T. Golenbock (Vol. 115, No. 36, September 4, 2018, p. 9002-9007).
www.pnas.org/content/115/36/9002
B. “Local field potentials of subthalamic nucleus contain electrophysiological footprints of motor subtypes of Parkinson’s disease,” by Ilknur Telkes, Ashwin Viswanathan, Joohi Jimenez-Shahed, Aviva Abosch, Musa Ozturk, Akshay Gupte, Joseph Jankovic, and Nuri F. Ince (Vol. 115, No. 36, September 4, 2018, p. E8567-E8576).
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CAAR – National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper – September 5, 2018
Links to an abstract are available. For full text availability check your organization’s library. “Hazed and Confused: The Effect of Air Pollution on Dementia,” by Kelly C. Bishop, Jonathan D. Ketcham, and Nicolai V. Kuminoff (w24970, August 2018, .pdf format, 65p.).
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CAAR – Tables of Contents – September 5, 2018
International Journal of Aging and Human Development (Vol. 87, No. 3, October 2018).
journals.sagepub.com/toc/ahdb/87/3
International Psychogeriatrics (Vol. 30, No. 8, August 2018).
Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology (Vol. 33, No. 3, September 2018).
link.springer.com/journal/10823/33/3/page/1
Journal of Pension Economics & Finance (Vol. 17, No. 4, October 2018).
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September 4, 2018
CAAR – US National Institutes of Health Funding Opportunities – September 4, 2018
A. “BRAIN Initiative: Research Opportunities Using Invasive Neural Recording and Stimulating Technologies in the Human Brain (U01 Clinical Trials Required),” (RFA-NS-19-001, a reissue of RFA-NS-18-010, National Institute on Aging, in conjunction with other agencies, application deadlines November 14, 2018; October 18, 2019; June 19, 2020; October 19, 2020).
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-NS-19-001.html
B. “BRAIN Initiative: Team-Research BRAIN Circuit Programs – TeamBCP (U19 Clinical Trial Required),” (RFA-NS-19-002, a reissue of of RFA-NS-17-018, National Institute on Aging, in conjunction with other agencies, application deadlines October 30, 2018, October 30, 2019 and October 30, 2020).
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-NS-19-002.html
C. “BRAIN Initiative: Team-Research BRAIN Circuit Programs – TeamBCP (U19 Clinical Trial Not Allowed),” (RFA-NS-19-003, a reissue of of RFA-NS-17-018, National Institute on Aging, in conjunction with other agencies, application deadlines October 30, 2018, October 30, 2019 and October 30, 2020).
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CAAR – Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research/National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging Data Release – September 4, 2018
ICPSR/NACDA announced the release of a new dataset on September 4, 2018. Note: Some ICPSR studies are available only to ICPSR member institutions. To find out whether your organization is a member, and whether or not it supports ICPSR Direct downloading, see:
www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/membership/administration/institutions
– Midlife in the United States (MIDUS 3): Milwaukee African American Sample, 2016-2017 (ICPSR 37120)
www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/NACDA/studies/37120/versions/V1
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CAAR – Public Library of Science (PLoS) Medicine Article – September 4, 2018
“Seasonal plasticity of cognition and related biological measures in adults with and without Alzheimer disease: Analysis of multiple cohorts,” by Andrew S. P. Lim , Chris Gaiteri, Lei Yu, Shahmir Sohail, Walter Swardfager, Shinya Tasaki, Julie A. Schneider, Claire Paquet, Donald T. Stuss, Mario Masellis, Sandra E. Black, Jacques Hugon, Aron S. Buchman, Lisa L. Barnes, David A. Bennett, and Philip L. De Jager (PLoS Med 15(9): e1002647. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002647, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 27p.).
journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002647
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CAAR – Conferencealerts.Com Gerontology Conference Alert – September 4, 2018
– The Asian Conference on Aging & Gerontology 2019 (AGen2019) — Tokyo, Japan (May 20-22, 2018).
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