Many of us are interested in our age, and how we might look and feel when we are older. How you look later depends a great deal on what you do today. There are people, called gerontologists, that specialize in helping to care for people as they age. However, you can avoid needing a great deal of care if you are careful to take good care of yourself right now. Here are 25 age progression tools that can help you stay on top of your health — and see what different habits might do to you:

Age and Life Expectancy Quizzes

Use this great quizzes to help you learn more about your life expectancy, and to help you figure out your real age. These quizzes can help you determine your best and healthiest course of action.

1. MyRealAge: Figure out what your “real” age is with help from this tool. Amazing age progression tool uses your honest responses to answers to determine whether your body is showing more wear and tear than it should be for your calendar age.
2. Health Age and Life Expectancy: This cool calculator is meant to help you figure out your health age. Figure out whether or not you are cheating yourself out of a longer life by what you are doing today.
3. The Longevity Game: This fun age progression game takes an avatar that you create, and then ages it according to your habits, showing your life expectancy — and showing you what you might look like if you follow your present course.
4. Living to 100: See how likely you are to live to 100 — and what you can do it improve the chances. Helpful age tool helps you see that what you are doing may affect your future.
5. Life expectancy calculator: Great tool that helps you look into your future by look at your current health and habits, and by looking at your family history. A great tool to help you figure your likely age progression.
6. Life Expectancy Calculator: Another interesting age progression tool that can help you figure out your virtual age, as well as your current age. Figure out longevity, and consider a number of factors that can contribute to increased age.
7. Find Your Fate: An interesting look at different factors that can age you quickly, and reduce your life expectancy.
8. What is your biological age?: This neat site helps you figure out your rate of age progression. Find out whether you are aging faster than you should be, and look for remedies.
9. Life Expectancy Quiz: Test your knowledge of life expectancy, and determine whether or not your age is progression at a faster rate than it should be. A great age tool.
10. Increased Life Expectancy Calculator: Are interested in slowing your age progression? See how you can slow the aging process with some help from exercise when you use this calculator.
11. How long will I live?: A great, in-depth look at your likely life expectancy. Takes into account stress level, education and current heal. An interesting way to determine factors that could affect your age progression.
12. Death Risk Rankings: Interested in seeing how your age progression and death risk ranks with those in other countries? You can use this calculator from Carnegie Mellon University to determine your expected age and longevity — and compare it with others’.

Image Progression Tools

You can actually look at yourself in terms of age progression with a little help from tools based on an actual image of yourself. Here are some of the great applications:

13. age-me.com: Upload a photo of yourself, and then watch as it is aged before your eyes. You can even set different factors that might influence the way you age. An interesting way to consider your own path of aging, and how it will affect your looks.
14. PhotoShop: You probably will not be surprised to learn that PhotoShop offers the ability to show age progression. This handy tutorial shows you how to make it happen.
15. Face of the Future: You can look and see how you might change over the years. Upload your own picture and see how you are likely to change in the future. A great, free tool that provides you with interesting insight.
16. MyWebFace: You can see your age progression with this animation. Turn yourself into a cartoon figure — and then watch that figure age. Also helps you turn it into an avatar that you can use on your profile pages.
17. In20Years.com: Cool age progression tool that allows you to age yourself by 20 years. Upload your photo, and then get an idea of how you will look after 20 years have passed.
18. ThatsMyFace: Transform your face. See your face in 3D, see yourself as older and even create personalized gifts and merchandise using this web tool. One of the funnest options is creating a personalized action figure using your face.
19. Face Transformer: Use this web tool from the Perception Laboratory to change how you look. Cool tool also lets you change race or sex on top of age. You can also place yourself in a famous painting, or even see what you look like as a Manga character.
20. GIMP: You can manipulate pictures, including based on age, using the GNU program that allows you to accomplish interesting feats with your face. Helpful and fun
21. Portrait Professional: Lets you change images and more. You can also add age, on top of being able to retouch and enhance photos.
22. HourFace: This is actually an iPhone app that allows you to age an image. You can do even do it by the hour, to see how much older you can look in one day.
23. Your Shape Picture Progress: Helps you take pictures over time, and then create a movie showing your progression. Can help you track weight loss, as well as your age progression.
24. Make-Me-Old: If you don’t mind paying a subscription fee, you can use this age progression software to see how you will look as you get older. Claims to use FBI grade software to age you.
25. PhoJoe: This photo art service can help with age progression. However, it is quite pricey, since it is considered forensic art.

Between 1996 and 2015, over 5,000 Americans per day will have turned 50 years of age — these are Americans who were born between 1946 and 1965, otherwise called the Baby Boom Generation. A focus on aging, gerontology and all the issues that focus on these topics have become a focus among online courseware programs and in government research. The following 40 educational opencourseware classes on aging and gerontology provide insight into issues such as disease, policy and death.

Lifespans and Aging

1. Brain and Cognitive Sciences: This course studies the brain and its complexities, including brain issues that occur in elderly populations such as Alzheimer’s Disease [MIT].
2. Cognitive Neuroscience: This course explores the cognitive and neural processes that support attention, vision, language, motor control, navigation, and memory [MIT].
3. Death: This course examines a number of issues that arise once we begin to reflect on our mortality. A variety of death experiences are examined [Open Yale].
4. Health Across the Life Span: Frameworks, Contexts, and Measurements: This course focuses on the basic principles which guide growth and development and the health of individuals across the lifespan [Johns Hopkins].
5. Human Growth and Development: One can follow the development of motor, language or cognitive capacities and skills from the beginning of life to its end [Tufts].
6. Human Memory and Learning: This course surveys the literature on the cognitive and neural organization of human memory and learning [MIT].
7. Introduction to Clinical Pain Problems: This course introduces the general principles of biomedical evaluation and management of common clinical pain problems [Tufts].
8. Living with death and dying: This unit will explore how knowledge and beliefs about death and encounters with death affect people’s lives [Open University].
9. Neural Basis of Learning and Memory: This course highlights the interplay between cellular and molecular storage mechanisms and the cognitive neuroscience of memory [MIT].
10. Parkinson’s Disease Workshop: Although this disease can strike at any age, the workshop approaches topics that are relevant to geriatric care.
11. Population Medicine: This course, designed for physicians, is meant to shift attention away from the pathophysiologic effects of disease on individuals and refocus it on a much bigger question: what connection will the physician and his/her patients have with the health of the public? This course approaches gerontology [Tufts].
12. Principles of Pharmacology: This course teaches students an approach to the study of pharmacologic agents. Topics include geriatric care.
13. Psychosocial Aspects of Visual Impairment: This course investigates the psychosocial aspects of vision loss [UMass Boston].
14. The Biopsychosocial Model of Health and Illness: This course aims to define the biopsychosocial model and delineate the position of health psychology in different environments [Rice Connexions].
15. The Radical Consequences of Respiration: Reactive Oxygen Species in Aging and Disease: This course starts with a survey of basic oxygen radical biochemistry followed by a discussion of the mechanisms of action of cellular as well as dietary antioxidants [MIT].
16. The Wisdom Years: The Wisdom Years documentary offers glimpses into the urban lives of 70-, 80- and 90-year-olds of different socio-economic backgrounds [United Nations University].

Health and Health Policy Issues

17. Addiction and neural aging: The aim of this unit is to present a short exploration of original research articles and detailed commentaries within a framework that highlights the complex nature of addiction and neural aging [Open University].
18. Advancing Integrative Psychological Research on Adaptive and Healthy Aging: This workshop [Podcast] was organized by the Institute of Personality and Social Research of the University of California, Berkeley and the Division of Behavioral and Social Research of the National Institute on Aging/National Institutes of Health [Webcast Berkeley].
19. Aging: This is the final part of a learning module on minority studies [Rice Connexions].
20. Aging and disability: transitions into residential care: This unit considers working with people in group care and residential settings [Open University].
21. Aging, Health, and Diversity: The goal of this seminar [Podcast] is to provide a critical examination of aging and health from a broad, multicultural perspective [Webcast Berkeley].
22. Elderly and Activity: Physical activity directly influences the risk of chronic illness, loss of function, dependence, and death [Wikiversity].
23. Geriatric Dentistry: This course considers dental needs of the rapidly changing and ethnically diverse geriatric population [Tufts].
24. Health Issues for Aging Populations: This course introduces the study of aging, its implications for individuals, families, and society, and the background for health policy related to older persons [Johns Hopkins].
25. Introduction to Methods for Health Services Research and Evaluation: Public health officials can learn more about evaluating services. The course also provides “the state of the art” in research and evaluation through the review of major completed studies [Johns Hopkins].
26. Managed Care and Health Insurance: Key topics in this course include population care management techniques, provider payment, organizational integration, quality and accountability, cost-containment, and public policy [Johns Hopkins].
27. Managing Long-Term Care Services for Aging Populations: This course reviews care and service systems from the unique perspective of an aging population, including the physiological and psychological changes common among seniors [Johns Hopkins].
28. Nutrition and Aging [PDF]: This course supplement covers the issues involved with nutrition and aging, including symptoms and remedies [Tufts].
29. Neurology, Neuropsychology, and Neurobiology of Aging: Lectures and discussions in this course cover the clinical, behavioral, and molecular aspects of the brain aging processes in humans [MIT].
30. Workshop on Aging: This is the first session [Podcast] in a workshop on aging, including “Fundamental Social and Affective Processes in Aging [Webcast Berkeley].
31. Workshop on Aging II: This is a continuation of the same workshop noted above. In this session [Podcast], the topic, “Healthy Aging over the Lifecourse” is discussed [Webcast Berkeley].

Information Web Sites

32. Aging Journal: This is an open-access impact journal on aging that provides the latest news, archives, recent breakthroughs in medicine and tests and much more.
33. Alliance for Aging Research: This site belongs to the nation’s leading non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and accelerating the pace of medical discoveries to improve the experience of aging and health.
34. American Society on Aging: The ASA is the largest organization of multidisciplinary professionals in the field of aging. Their resources, publications, and educational opportunities are geared to enhance the knowledge and skills of people working with older adults and their families.
35. Health and Human Services Aging: This section of the HHS.gov site offering a variety of topics and information to help with your research or real-life aging care needs.
36. Healthy Aging: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers an entire site on how to age healthy, including interactive data tools and information about care giving and mental health.
37. National institute on Aging: This site contains information on Alzheimer’s disease, information about clinical trials and NIA-sponsored research as well as information about grants and training.
38. U.S. Special Committee on Aging: The Senate Special Committee on Aging was first established in 1961 as a temporary committee. It was granted permanent status on February 1, 1977.
39. WebMD Healthy Aging Health Center: This Web site approaches physical, mental and emotional health of aging populations.
40. World Health Organization Aging: WHO broaches the topics of international aging populations.

As the Baby Boomer generation ages, there is expected to be an explosion in the field of gerontology. How we age has always been a subject of interesting to the health profession, and to the scientific community. If you want a career in a filed that is likely to be around for quite some time, gerontology might be a good choice for you. If you are interested in human aging, here are 50 of the top blogs on aging and gerontology.

General Blogs on Aging

The following blogs offer insight into aging, and the issues that older people face.

1. Fight Aging!: This blog is meant to help you understand the mechanisms behind degenerative aging, and work toward preventing these types of diseases.
2. The New Old Age: This inspiring blog from The New York Times offers insight into aging issues for those who are older. It’s about what makes old age rewarding, and some of the challenges faced by older Americans.
3. The 70-Something Blog: Learn about aging and living a full life from Judy, who is chronicling her journey through her decade as a septagenarian.
4. Alliance for Aging Research: Keep up with the latest research and news in the world of aging.
5. Aging Issues: Learn about common issues in aging, and read the latest headlines. Helpful hints for aging with grace.
6. Ageless Lifestyles Radio: Tackles major issues in aging, and helps you com to terms with aging. A great regular podcast on aging.
7. Ageism in America: A look at issues surrounding age based discrimination in the U.S. Looks at debates and public policy.
8. Boomers: A look at Baby Boomers, and the issues that are important to this generation.
9. Consumer Boomer: Interested in the financial issues associated with aging? Consumer Boomer offers insight into the Baby Boomer generation and finances.
10. The Future of Aging: A peek into the future of aging, and the kinds of issues that affect us going forward.
11. Ouroboros: An interesting blog that looks at the biology of aging, and reports on research in that area.

Longevity

Learn more about long life and what you can do to enjoy a longer life, even though you might be a senior citizen.

1. Existence is Wonderful: Learn how to live longer — and better.
2. The Methuselah Foundation Blog: Learn about the latest information in longevity research, and tips to help you enjoy longer life.
3. Longevity Science: Get a handle on longevity, and the science of living longer.
4. Longevity: Information on anti-aging, living longer and different ways to extend your lifespan.
5. Al Fin Longevity: Looks at lifespan science, research into anti-aging and things you can do to live longer.
6. ChangingAging: A longevity blog about living differently, and changing your views about aging.
7. Alcor News: If you are interested in cryonics and life extension, this blog offers interesting news and insights on research into suspended animation.
8. Happy Health Long Life: An evidence-based look at living longer through better living choices.
9. How to Live a Longer Life: Tips on fighting aging and increase your longevity.
10. RealAge: Fight aging and live younger by following some of the tips and hints on this blog.
11. Dr. Mao’s Secrets of Longevity: Read helpful posts on how you can live longer and healthier.

Hospice Care and Elder Care

As part of aging and gerontology, it is important to understand that hospice care may be in the picture. You also need a generally good view of elder care. Here are some blogs on these issues.

1. Hospice Physician’s Blog: Learn about hospice care and gerontology from a physician who works with hospice patients.
2. GeriPal: A blog about geriatrics and palliative care, and the issues that such care encompasses.
3. Hospice and Caregiving Blog: Learn more about hospice care, and also about giving care to the elderly.
4. Alive Hospice Blog: An interesting blog about hospice care, and aging issues.
5. Risa’s Pieces: Looks at health care policy involving elder care, and a look at aging.
6. The Nursing Home Administrator: An interesting look at nursing homes and gerontology from someone who oversees a nursing home.
7. The Caregiver’s Voice: This blog looks at aging from the perspective of a caregiver.
8. Eldercare ABC: Helpful information on gerontology, aging and caring for elders.
9. My Elder Advocate: Helpful blog about legal issues surrounding elder care, and addressing problems of abuse.
10. Death Care Law: Another law blog dealing with elder issues, including death.

Nutrition and Aging

Learn about better eating, and how what you eat can result in longer life and more graceful aging.

1. Nutrition and Healthy Eating: Learn to live longer with these healthy eating tips from the Mayo Clinic.
2. Joy’s Healthy Bite: Learn more about good nutrition, and learn more about different foods that can help keep you younger.
3. CRON Diary: Learn about different ways to limit your caloric intake, and enjoy a longer life.
4. Anti Aging Nutrition News: Helpful news on anti-aging and nutrition, and how you can age better, by eating better.
5. I Ate a Pie: Food review that can help you make better decisions about what you eat.
6. American Society for Nutrition: Get insights into nutrition from the American Society for Nutrition.
7. Pinch My Salt: Great recipes with fresh foods that can help you live longer and more richly.
8. The Ethicurean: Learn about ethical eating habits — habits that can also help your longevity.
9. The Nutrition Data Blog: Know what’s in your food, and make better decisions for a healthier you.

Better Health

You can age better when you know about better health, and when you are interested in staying healthy.

1. Senior Health: Latest headlines related to staying healthy as a senior.
2. Senior Health Blog: Nancy Gowler helps you learn about staying healthy and living better as a senior.
3. Healthy Aging: The Buck Institute for Age Research offers helpful insight into healthy aging.
4. Serene Ambition: Learn about aging, boomers, and health.
5. Better Than I Ever Expected: This senior health blog focuses on sexual health for those over the age of 60.
6. RealSelf.com: Learn about yourself, and learn about plastic surgery and other treatments.
7. A Healthy Blog: Learn about healthcare, and about issues affecting seniors.
8. FitSugar: Articles on healthy living, nutrition and aging.
9. World Health: Get news and information on health around the world, and learn about issues related to aging around the world.

With the massive urbanization and rush towards getting millionaire and billionaire is leaving away our elders quite away is isolation and we even not make slightest effort to understand them a bit. Below some videos is an attempt to better understand our elders by means of Gerontology.

1. Gerontology Satisfaction: This video is about the experience of professionals who are into the career of aging. That supports and provides huge satisfaction to them while working among them who are elder and maintain quality of their life and at the same time enjoys wit, wisdom and creativity of the older persons.
2. Social Work & Aging: This video is about statistical of Gerontology as there various trends are available in American society as well as countries globally. In the U.S., of those born in 1900 nearly half died before they were 50 years old. People born today can expect to live beyond their 75th year. In 1900 about one in 25 Americans was over 65; today one in eight is over 65. These all stats are about the need of Gerontology in society and its importance.
3. What is Gerontology: In this video Gerontology is told as biology, sociology, and psychology combined together as to study aging process and individuals as they grow from middle age through later life.
4. Importance of Gerontology: This video tells Aging as a multidisciplinary field that combines information collected from various areas of study. It is told as study of physical, mental, and social changes in older people as they age and changes occurring in society as developed from the aging population. Therefore professionals from diverse field and areas call themselves as a gerontologist.
5. Nutritional Therapies for Age-related Eye Disease: This video is by Emily Y Chew, M.D who is an expert in Eye Diseases related to aging. In this video, she explains about eye related diseases in seniors and elders like macular degeneration and cataracts. In video, she has highlighted factors for eye diseases like natural history and risk factors of age related macular degeneration.

Retirement is that stage of life where a person stops working and leaves away labor force or get semi-retired by reducing working hours. In that hours after retirement a person wishes to enjoy his life as much as possible by doing and learning new things in completely relaxed manner. Following is the list of some web resources useful for elders.

1. Seniornet.org: This website is for elders to let them have access to computer technologies as to enable them to have access to computer technologies to enhance their lives and let them to have knowledge and wisdom. It is a non profit organization for computer using adults with age more than 50 and elder. This organization has benefited to millions of seniors and supports 130 Learning Centers throughout the United States.
2. Bestnetguru: This website is for seniors that can be used for teaching them a little computer. The tutorials provided here are completely for free. The objective of this website is to teach fellow citizens about Internet so they can look at reference from the Internet, or read the news headlines, read weather forecast of a place on the other side of the Globe.
3. Seniornavigator: It is a non profit organization that provides free information about the health and aging resources to elders. It provides information about senior related issues like health and aging, financial concerns, legal questions, health facilities, exercise programs, support groups and more.
4. Todaysseniors: This is the website that can help you to enjoy life after retirement and dwindle down some problems that are generated after the retirement. This website is very helpful to teach one about after retirement plans like starting your own business, part time job, consulting, volunteering, mentoring and enjoying lot other leisurely activities.
5. FamilyCareGiving101: The National Family Caregivers Association (NFCA) and the National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC) in combined form run this organization. Its50 million family caregivers in this country provide care for chronically ill or aging family members or friends. It is estimated that family caregivers provide some $306 million in services to overburdened American health care system.
6. Arlington Learning In Retirement Institute: This website is dedicated to high quality courses, interesting special events and enjoyable social activities for every person that is over the age of fifty. Its non degree courses do not requires any testing and paper and provided in range of subjects like Social Sciences, History, Arts and Humanities, Law, Politics and Public Affairs.
7. Lifetime Learning Institute: IT is an autonomous non-profit, member-run organization serving for providing continuing education opportunities to elder adults from all backgrounds and income levels.

Gerontology is a branch of biology that focuses on the common mechanism of aging across all the multicellular species. This involves studying of their aging phenomena and diseases. There has been an increased interest in this field as a study program thus the introduction of this program to be done online. When online there are many topics that are covered and they are examinable through the internet. All these topics are the same as the ones that are taught at physical colleges.

How to apply
One can apply for the course through the internet in a quick and convenient way. The only thing that you need to have is to be connected to the internet and you are good to go. Before you apply you should decide the college that you want to provide you with the online program, and this college should meet your requirements. To know of the best colleges nowadays you only download the performance of the colleges in recent years. See the performances and choose a college that best suits you, the one that you think can make the best out of the program. After that you go to the college website and download the application form to upload your info. Remember the applications are given a period of time within which they are to be submitted. A late submission will always lead to automatic disqualification and won’t be accepted. In the application you should make sure that you indicate your names properly and the way they appear is the way you will need them in your certificates.

You should also note that there should be an email address that is indicated in the application form so that when the college wants to reach you they can do it easily. It should also indicate your mobile contacts. Payment of fees can also be done through the internet. You will not be allowed to access the program’s tutorials and lessons if you have not paid the fees.

Online exams
Exams are also done online for students who take their lessons online. Remember that if you cheat there are consequences for this act and exams will not be evaluated. Exams online have a specified time in which they are supposed to handed back to the college for marking. Results are also posted via the email addresses of the person examined. You also reach the college through their email addresses for more correspondence regarding the same.