InhaltsangabeThe medfly as a frailty model: implications for biodemographic research.- Social control of aging and frailty in bees.- A review of genes that act downstream of the DAF-16 FOXO transcription factor to influence the lifespan of C. elegans.- Calorie restriction in nonhuman primates: impact on aging, disease, and frailty.- Evolutionary perspectives on human longevity and frailty.- Flies without wings.- Biological markers and the molecular biology of frailty.- Inflammation: the fire of frailty?.- Early life conditions affect historical change in old-age mortality.- Aging, frailty, and the compression of morbidity: definite progress.- Cognition and frailty: possible interrelations.- Consequences of the 2003 summer heat wave on mortality levels in France.- The oldest-old: emergence of a new population.- Subject index.

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