Gerontology [Part 2 of 4]

The fast-growing Gerontological Society of America has an informative website, and is an important participant in understanding aging issues:

The Gerontological Society of America is a non-profit professional organization with more than 5,000 members in the field of aging. GSA provides researchers, educators, practitioners, and policy makers with opportunities to understand, advance, integrate, and use basic and applied research on aging to improve the quality of life as one ages.

And this DC-based organization is in its 50th year:

The evolution of the Society began in 1939 when a group of 24 scientists and physicians, some of them participants at a 1937 Woods Hole conference, formed the Club for Research on Ageing.

On May 18, 1945, with World War II coming to a close, Earl T. Engle, Lawrence K. Frank, Jean Oliver, Oscar Riddle and Henry S. Simms met in New York City to sign the certificate to incorporate the Gerontological Society, to "promote the scientific study of aging."

Their mission is as follows:

• to promote the conduct of multi- and interdisciplinary research in aging by expanding the quantity of and improving the quality of gerontological research, and by increasing its funding resources; and
• to disseminate gerontological research knowledge to researchers, to practitioners, and to decision and opinion makers.

Reflecting their academic bent, the "GSA" also publishes journals.

[continued tomorrow, this is Part 2 of a four-part series on Gerontology]

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