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  • studying physical

    Body

    With regard to living things, a body is the physical body of an individual. "Body" often is used in connection with appearance, health issues and death...

    , mental

    Mind

    Mind is the aspect of intellect and consciousness experienced as combinations of thought, perception, memory, emotion, will, and imagination, including all unconscious cognitive processes. The term is often used to refer, by implication, to the thought processes of reason. Mind manifests itself...

    , and social

    Society

    A society or a human society is ' a group of people related to each other through persistent relations such as social status, roles and social networks. ' A large social grouping that shares the same geographical territory and is subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural...

    changes in people as they age;

  • investigating the aging process itself (biogerontology);
  • investigating the interface of normal ageing and age-related disease (geroscience);
  • investigating the effects of our aging population on society, including the fiscal effects of pensions, entitlements, life and health insurance, and retirement planning;
  • applying this knowledge to policies and programs, including a macroscopic (i.e. government planning) and microscopic (i.e. running a nursing home) perspective.
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