Web Site Description Links for Adult Educators Directory of Web Sites on Aging Every thing you need to know about aging in the most recent research on aging.  Do Not Miss This Web Site. Center on Aging   The Center on Aging is a multidisciplinary research center established to advance knowledge through excellence in research in the field of lifespan with an emphasis on aging. Our mandate also includes distribution of information and dialogue with community partners. The Center promotes and conducts basic and applied research through the life span, with particular emphasis on the later years. The Aging Research Center   The Aging Research Center is dedicated to providing a service that allows researchers in this field to find information that is related to the study of the aging process. We also endeavor to introduce this field to laymen who would like to know more about the research that is being conducted in this field. Institute of Gerontology   Do not let this site intimidate you. The faculty of the Institute of Gerontology conducts independent research and work with other university departments, institutes, and centers in collaborative research projects.  They focus primarily on seven specific research areas: health/long-term care, intergenerational relationships/life span development, minority elderly, public policy, retirement/the older worker, literary gerontology, and gero-engineering.  Institute for Human Development, Life Course and Aging   The Institute has its origins in the Program in Gerontology. The Program in Gerontology was founded in 1979 and was succeeded by the Center for Studies of Aging in 1989, with a mandate to carry out research into the process of aging, population aging, and the aged in the social, psychological, biological and health sciences. The new Institute is a multidisciplinary forum of research and its members come from 10 faculties and 15 departments. The principal mandate of the Institute is to conduct basic, multidisciplinary research from a social science perspective on human development, the life course and aging.  Huffington Center on Aging The Baylor College of Medicine research on aging site. Incredibly informative. It seeks to improve the condition of older people through its programs of research, education, and training in the Texas Medical Center. The National Institute on Aging   The National Institute on Aging (NIA) is one of the National Institutes of Health, the principal biomedical research agency of the United States Government. The NIA promotes healthy aging by conducting and supporting biomedical, social, and behavioral research and public education. National Center for Biotechnology Information   A huge list of research papers on every thing regarding the process of aging.  [WARNING> All links on this page are unstable, i.e. the documents they reference may change with time.] The GeroWeb Virutal Library on Aging   Brought to you by the Graduate Student Organization and the GeroInformatics Workgroup at the Wayne State University Institute of Gerontology, GeroWeb is designed as an online resource for researchers, educators, practitioners, and others interested in aging and older individuals. University of Michigan Aging Study   The Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) are nationally representative longitudinal data collections begun in the early 1990s that examine retirement and the aging of society. MORE RECENT RESEARCH SITES WILL BE ADDED BY MARCH 30, 2000.