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Home / Society / People / Seniors / Centenarians
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- Ask Trudy - Personal homepage of a centenarian. Includes her story, her secrets to long life, favorite jokes and quotes, and links to sites of interest to centenarians and other seniors.
www.geocities.com/trudy1899
- Centenarians - Featuring a new centenarian each month. Stories of people who lived to be 100.
www.hcoa.org/centenarians/centenarians.htm
- Centenarians: Lives of a Century - Ten American centenarians, all born before 1900, look back on a century that spanned Depression, world wars, and the advent of airplanes and automobiles.
www.csmonitor.com/atcsmonitor/specials/centenarians
- Centenarians: The Bonus Years - Secrets of aging, discusses their amazing personal histories and looks at the difficulties of the very old in today's society.
www.healthpress.com/cent1.htm
- Florida Centenarian Study - A report on the study by Jo Ann Warden, an editorial associate at the Florida Geriatric Research Program.
www.ncoa.org/news/archives/florida_centenarian.htm
- National Centenarian Awareness Project - A nonprofit organization that seeks to contact and honor all those 100 years old and older for their contributions to the past. Interviews, greeting cards and registry.
www.adlercentenarians.com
- South Plains Centenarians - This site contains the life stories of 100 year old residents in nursing facilities on the South Plains of Texas.
www.geocities.com/southplains100
- The Health Report: Centenarian Study - A group of researchers at Harvard Medical School have been trying to find out what it takes to reach the age of 100 or more. An interview with to two of the principal investigators, Drs Margery Silver and Dr Tom Perls.
www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/helthrpt/stories/s19117.htm
- The Okinawa Centenarian Study - Identifies eleven genetic and lifestyle factors responsible for successful, healthy aging.
www.okinawaprogram.com
- The University of Georgia Gerontology Center: The Georgia Centenarian Study - Hale and Hearty at 100 - A summary of the study which looks at the conditions and needs of those who reach the age of 100 and beyond.
www.geron.uga.edu/centenarian_study.html
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