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Title: NUS Virtual Institute for the Study of Ageing VISA


1
NUS Virtual Institute for the Study of Ageing
(VISA)
Forum on Innovating for the Silver Industry 06
Feb 2009
  • Prof. Barry Halliwell
  • Deputy President
  • (Research Technology)

2
VISA the Mission
  • To catalyse the development of NUS research into
    Ageing for the creation of new knowledge about
    the ageing process and for its application to
    better the social and individual consequences of
    ageing in Singapore

3
The challenge of ageing
  • The challenge to Singapore and all developed
    countries is
  • To ensure that the increased proportion of aged
    people does not result in a decrease in the
    quality of life
  • for the aged
  • for their carers
  • for society generally
  • In Singapore, in 2008, 1 in 11 people are over 65
  • In 2030 this will have increased to 1 in 5

4
NUS is a leader in ageing research
  • NUS is uniquely positioned in Singapore to
    provide research leadership and guidance across
    the wide range of disciplines and subjects that
    relate to ageing.
  • Aging research falls into 3 overlapping themes
    the ageing cell, the ageing body and the ageing
    society
  • Spanning these 3 themes is support technology,
    including
  • Sensors and computation
  • Engineering
  • Design and building

5
The ageing cell
  • Domain the basic mechanisms of why our cells
    age.
  • What happens to cells as they grow older?
  • How do their properties change as they age?
  • Can we halt or reverse age- related changes in
    cells?
  • how might this affect the ageing of human beings
    rather than their component cells?
  • The research of molecular and cellular
    biologists, geneticists, neurobiologists, free
    radical chemists and nutritionists.

6
The ageing body
  • The causes of diseases and disorders associated
    with ageing
  • What are the determinants of such disorders?
  • What are the determinants of good health into the
    aged years?
  • Can we develop advice to allow people not only
    to live longer but to live longer healthily?
  • Can we identify nutrients and diets that may help
    in disease prevention?
  • The research of many specialist clinical and
    basic scientists including cardiologists,
    diabetologists, nutritionists, neuroscientists,
    cognitive psychologists and epidemiologists.

7
The ageing society
  • How we should organise the physical, material,
    financial and spiritual aspects of our country to
    cope with an increasing proportion of aged people
  • How should medical treatment be paid for?
  • Who will care for the aged if they become infirm?
  • What is the aged persons financial expectation
    and what is reality?
  • How can we design our buildings and our transport
    systems to support their use by aged people?
  • The research of ethicists, social and political
    scientists, engineers, architects, designers,
    builders, computer scientists and economists.

8
VISA the scale of research
  • 2-300 projects, gt 50 research groups, Centres
    and Institutes
  • Across all NUS faculties/schools Medicine,
    Science, Engineering, Computing, Law, Business,
    Design and Environment, Arts and Social Sciences
  • In collaboration with
  • Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies, Asia
    Research Institute, Centre of Engineering
    Solutions for the Ageing Population, Duke/NUS
    Graduate School of Medicine, Genome Institute of
    Singapore, International Alliance of Research
    Universities, Institute of Bioengineering and
    Nanotechnology, Interactive Digital Media
    Institute, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy,
    Life Science Institute, National University
    Hospital, Palliative Care Research Centre
  • Enormous economic impact (nutrition, building
    design, products, devices)

9
Thank YOU Thanks to Prof. Peter Little for
drafting the slides
MISSION To transform the way people think and do
things through education, research and service
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