Global health and global aging

 Content: World policies on aging and the United Nations / Alexandre Siderenko --
 Population aging : a global overview / Mary Beth Weinberger --The World Health Organization and global aging / Alex Kalache --
 Leadership and governance challenges for global health and aging / Derek Yach --
 Perception of aging in different cultures / Frank Eyetsemitan --
 Healthy aging in Denmark? / Bjarne Hastrup --
 Challenges of longevity in France : the International Longevity Centre-France perspective / Françoise Forette and Marie-Anne Brieu --
 Healthy aging in Finland / Pekka Puska --
 Healthy aging in Germany / Ulla Schmidt --
 Healthy aging from seventy to over one hundred in Germany : lessons from the Berlin Aging Study / Jacqui Smith and Paul Baltes --
 Challenges of productive Aging in Japan / Shigeo Morioka --
 Healthy aging in the Netherlands / C.I.J.M. Ross-van Dorp --
 Aging in Spain : working toward creating new rights in the welfare state / José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero --
 Health and aging in Sweden / Barbro Westerholm --
 Aging in the United Kingdom / Sally Greengross --
 Healthy aging in the United States / Jeanette Takamura --
 Health and aging in Africa / Nana Araba Apt --
 Aging of populations : is China's pattern unique? / Lincoln Chen and Lingling Zhang --Health and aging in India / Sharad D. Gokhale --
 Health and aging in the eastern Mediterrean region / Mohamed H. El-Banouby --
 Health and aging in Russia / Vladimir Kh. Khavinson and Olga N. Mikhailova --
 Health and aging in Latin America and the Caribbean / Enrique Vega --
 The biology of aging : current research and expected future gains / George Martin and Joshua Lederberg --
 Exceptional longevity / Thomas Perls and Dellara Terry --
 Cities, sociodiversity, and strategy / Jaime Lerner --
 Creating a healthy environment for aging populations / Gloria M. Gutman --
 How government, business, and social sector partnerships can finance programs for the aging / A. James Forbes, Jr. --
 Policies and practices affecting health and longevity of people with disabilities : lessons from the United Kingdom / Hector Medora and Angela Hassiotis --
 Keeping people active : continuing education programs that work / Julia Preece and Brian Findsen --
 Longevity's impact on retirement security / C. Robert Henrikson --
 Improving health care in America : lessons learned from the global village / William D. Novelli --
 Epilogue : the road ahead / Erik Olsen.