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Clinical Investigation

Gerontology Scholarly

 Human ageing is a complex, multifaceted process not limited to cellular aging but influenced by a myriad of factors far beyond the biological sphere. Its analysis and understanding cannot be circumscribed to chronological changes in the individual. As noted by Leonard Hayflick (1999), “It is not the mere passage of time; but the manifestation of biological events that occur during a period of time, which defines aging . . . [it] occurs over time, but not because of the passage of time” (p. 50).     According to statistical data for Mexico, in 2014, the population in the group of 60 years old and above was 11.7 million (9.7% of the total population), and the average expected life span at 60 was 22 years (Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía, 2014). Such panorama depicts a country integrated by an increasing number of older adults and underscores the importance of the enforcement of national strategies addressed toward the well-being of this vast segment of our population. Furthermore, it stresses the emergent need to promote wide-scope multidisciplinary research in the field to provide adequate decision making.The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM by its Spanish acronym), launched in the late 1990s an institutional research program on Gerontology at its School for Graduate Studies Zaragoza, in Mexico City. Our Gerontology Research Unit (GRU) has developed a multidisciplinary approach to the study of ageing and is integrated by specialists in the fields of medicine, nursery, biological sciences, social sciences, and Humanities. 

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