Aging Today, ASA's bimonthly newspaper, covers developments in public policy, research, practice, media and programming in the field of aging. A four-page pullout section, "In Focus," is devoted to in-depth coverage of a single topic.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate that more than 2 million patients get sick each year from infections they caught in the hospital—resulting in approximately 90,000 deaths. If these nosocomial infections—the term for hospital-contracted bugs—were tallied along with the statistics for fatalities from heart attacks, strokes and cancer, they would rank in the top 10 causes of death in the United States...Full Story

ASA's 50th Storyteller Luisah Teish began the dramatic opening session of the recent 2004 ASA-NCOA Joint Conference in San Francisco by leading a procession of Kairos Dance Theater and other presenters through the crowd of 4,000 attendees. Full story.

Front Page

• CDC Campaigns to Prevent Hospital Infections
• The Medicare-Card Shuffle

Forum

• The Road From Ozzie to Ozzy: What to Do About Boomers' Health

Inside Aging Today

• Pennsylvania Program Trains Nursing Assistants
  ESL Project Wins Best Practices in Human Resources Award
• Alzheimer's Studies on Depression, Diabetes
• ASA Research Awards Focus on Supporting Frail Elders
• Her Mother's Hip: A Professional's Close Encounter With Aging

In Focus : Disability and Aging: Emerging Issues for More Active Years

“AMERICANA” 'Americana' is the title of this image, an award winner in the 2004 American Society on Aging Photography Competition. Taken by Buffy Hanna of the Scripps Gerontology Center at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, the photo shows less about disability than about snazzy wheels—and the slogan a growing population of older people might have for defying the limitations associated with aging: 'Independence or Bust!'

• Beyond 50.03
• Development Disability With Blindness
  Program Supports Elders' Special Needs
• Aging With Disability
• Laws Prompt Design Changes
• Treatable Depression
• Universal Design Good for Business
• When a Wheelchair Means Freedom

Business and Aging

• Pfizer and Catalyst Benefits Win 2004 ASA Business Awards

The Aging Spirit

• The Professional Chaplain's Role in Long-Term Care

Creative Currents

• An Exclusive Interview With ASA Award Winner Hugh Downs

ASA Update

• ASA Looks Back in ‘Life Review’ as It Celebrates 50 Years (PDF)