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Nov 22, 2014 · Robert M. Butler died on the Fourth of July, 2010, from acute leukemia that had been diagnosed only weeks earlier. As Achenbaum notes, it was a death epitomizing the “compression of morbidity” into a short time frame, the kind of ending to a long life that we all would wish for.
- Vern L. Bengtson
- 2014
Apr 24, 2024 · Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center. The Center’s mission is to conduct interdisciplinary research and provide education to advance the goals of increasing health span for all in our world of longer lives, building the knowledge as to how to create wellbeing in our new second half of life, and making longevity an asset so that people of ...
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Sep 26, 2022 · The Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center, located at the Mailman School of Public Health, is named for Butler, who died in 2010.He was the founding director of the National Institute on Aging who staked his career on the premise that older people not only deserve better, but also are an invaluable resource society can’t afford to waste.
Gerontology. psychiatry. Robert Neil Butler (January 21, 1927 – July 4, 2010) was an American physician, gerontologist, psychiatrist, and author, who was the first director of the National Institute on Aging. Butler is known for his work on the social needs and the rights of the elderly and for his research on healthy aging and the dementias .
- July 4, 2010 (aged 83), New York, New York, US
- Robert Neil Butler, January 21, 1927, New York, New York, US
- Pulitzer Prize (1976)
A graduate of Columbia College's class of 1949, Robert N. Butler received his MD from the College of Physicians & Surgeons in 1953. A Pulitzer Prize-winning activist and aging pioneer who coined the terms "ageism" and "longevity revolution," Bob Butler was the founding director of the National Institute on Aging and the president and CEO of the International Longevity Center-USA.
Jul 7, 2010 · July 7, 2010. Dr. Robert N. Butler, a psychiatrist whose painful youthful realization that death is inevitable prompted him to challenge and ultimately reform the treatment of the elderly through ...
