The International Longevity Center’s founding president and CEO, Robert N. Butler, M.D., died July 4, 2010 at the age of 83. The ILC-USA was Dr. Butler’s vision when first organized in the early 1990s—and its programs on healthy aging, productive engagement and combating ageism were his driving goals.
Memorial Service
A memorial service in Dr. Butler's honor will be held on September 29, 2010, at 4:00 PM at: All Souls Unitarian Church, 1157 Lexington (corner of 80th Street), New York, NY 10075.
Charitable Fund
The Butler daughters are establishing the Robert N. Butler charitable fund which will be dedicated to continuing their father’s work in the areas of advocacy, public policy, education and research for the benefit of aging populations. If you would like to contribute, please make your check payable to the "Robert N. Butler Charitable Fund" and forward to: Cynthia Butler, 3211 Homewood Road, Davidsonville, MD 21035. For more information, email butlergleason@gmail.com.
Dr. Butler was widely regarded as “the father of geriatrics,” for his leadership in the field aging and longevity. Once a bench scientist at the National Institutes of Health and originally trained as a psychiatrist, he was tapped to be the first director of the National Institute of Aging and there helped shape the nation’s aging policy for more than a generation.
Read More  In his new book, The Longevity Prescription, The 8 Proven Keys to a Long, Healthy Life, ILC-CEO and founder Dr. Robert N. Butler, M.D., the Pulitzer Prize-winning father of geriatric medicine, offers a revitalizing plan for reaping the rich rewards of the final third of life.
Dr. Butler's name is synonymous with healthy aging. As the founder of the first department of geriatric medicine in the country at Mount Sinai and the National Institute on Aging within the National Institutes of Health, he is a frequent adviser to the World Health Organization, and a life-long champion of research and policy focused on helping our senior population age well and live vibrant lives.
In The Longevity Prescription, published by Avery/Penguin Group, Butler outlines eight essential facets of longevity: exercise, nutrition, mental vitality, sleep, relaxation, love and intimacy, community connections, and medical care. Based on proven discoveries, the strategies in each of these areas stretch the proceeds of the "threedecade dividend" while delaying or eliminating chronic illness.
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 With generous support from Pfizer, Inc., the ILC has issued a new interdisciplinary consensus conference report entitled: Closing the Knowledge Gap: Toward the Creation of a Health Education Model for Professionals. The conference addressed the issue of the oftentimes slow flow of knowledge in medicine and other health fields.
Information published in peer-reviewed journals may attract media attention with provocative or controversial findings, but that doesn’t guarantee that this knowledge, or the best practices of one discipline or field, will be widely adopted by others with like-minded interests. Certainly this is true in gerontology and geriatrics, where the flow of new knowledge sometimes lurks behind disciplinary and professional barriers or is simply cut short by time and motivation. Ten experts from several fields shared their experiences with us so that we could begin to pursue their important questions and circumstances that affect the transfer and dissemination of health care information for older people.
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