1 rt of a Special Collection on Cross-National Gerontology.

2                               Recognition of gerontology and geriatric medicine as central to the mis

3 e, pediatric medicine, nursing, social work, gerontology, geriatrics, patient advocacy, bioethics, ph

4                                  Advances in gerontology have yielded crucial insights into the molec

5 ed using the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology Index of Competence (TMIG-IC).

6 e participants in a prospective aging study (Gerontology Research Center of the National Institute on

7 king in fields ranging from classic cellular gerontology to yeast and nematode models of aging to bas