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GERONTOLOGY RESEARCH PROGRAMME (GRP) A systematic and coordinated programme of research activities on the health of the elderly population in Singapore, the Gerontological Research Programme (GRP) aims to help understanding of population aging transition and to provide the scientific information needed for formulating strategies of disease prevention and health promotion. The GRP in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore was formed to coordinate and facilitate the conduct of multi-disciplinary research on a wide range of research topics in gerontology, spanning the basic, clinical and behavioral sciences. Under the GRP, multi-disciplinary research groups from all sectors of the healthcare system establish cohorts of elderly subjects, both healthy and diseased for gerontological research, addressing all levels of intervention and care: primary preventive, primary care, hospital, community hospital, and nursing homes. The establishment of the Singapore Longitudinal Aging Cohort provides a large community-based cohort of elderly subjects for specialized studies with useful clinical applications, alongside the naturalistic studies of the ageing process itself. Synergy is achieved in terms of pooling multi-disciplinary expertise, and combining genetic, biological, environmental, behavioral, social, clinical, and health services approaches to gerontological research.