05/29/2026
View from AFAR: Championing Your Health, Reimagining Aging
As we close the month of May, AFAR recognizes National Older Americans Month. The theme of this year’s commemoration is “Champion Your Health,” and championing your health is precisely what we do at AFAR. It’s in our DNA. For nearly half a century, we’ve supported scientific research on aging in order to help us all live healthier, longer.
AFAR experts talk about this in “Age Reimagined,” a recently launched branded content series presented by the Global Coalition on Aging and produced for GCOA by BBC StoryWorks Commercial Productions. AFAR Scientific Director Steven N. Austad, PhD, describes:
“The world is aging. It's aging more quickly than it ever has done in the 300,000-year history of our species.
At AFAR, we want to create a bigger cadre of bright, young scientists to make advances in understanding geroscience and in developing new therapies to keep us young and healthy longer.
Right now, it's an extremely collaborative field, and usually, when you get bright people working on different things together, good things happen.
In the next five to 10 years, we're going to see remarkable advances in how we can measure aging itself, and that's critically important, because if we want to intervene and impact that biology, we need to measure it.
To the extent that we're successful at intervening in the aging process, we would reimagine the whole trajectory of human life.”
At AFAR, every month is Older Americans Month, and it has been for 45 years.
See more of Dr. Austad in AFAR’s “Age Reimagined” short film, and dig deeper in an accompanying, illustrated feature article, here: https://www.bbc.com/storyworks/age-reimagined/afar-exploring-disease-biology-and-the-evolving-role-of-geroscience-in-ageing-research?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=age_reimagined
