The National Institute on Aging is a division of the National Institutes of Health, located in Bethesda,_Maryland. The National Institutes of Health is an institution of the United States government which focuses on medical research. ... Panoramic view of downtown Bethesda Bethesda is an urbanized, but unincorporated, area in Montgomery County, Maryland, near Washington, D.C.. It takes its name from a church located there, the Bethesda Presbyterian Church (built 1820), which in turn was named from a passage in the New Testament. ...
Formed in 1974, NIA’s mission is to improve the health and well-being of older Americans through research. It is the primary U.S. government agency studying Alzheimer's_disease. Alzheimers disease (AD) or primary dementia of Alzheimers type is an incurable, neurodegenerative disease which results in a pervasive loss of mental and physical functioning due to the deterioration of the brain. ...