For easy-to-understand information on the latest aging research, visit Infoaging, another AFAR Web site designed for the general public.


To learn more about how to effectively navigate research information on health and aging, visit AFAR's consumer web site HealthCompass.


For information on successful approaches to academic geriatrics career development from the John A. Hartford Foundation Centers of Excellence in Geriatric Medicine and Training.

What is Aging Research?

Research on aging and aging processes leads the way to a greater understanding of all age-related diseases. It has the potential to improve public health to a far greater extent than science that examines only one disease at a time. Research on aging also provides the hope and the promise for everyone to live healthier, longer lives less susceptible to disease and disability. Aging research is likely to be the least expensive path to preventing and curing many diseases of aging.

Studying aging requires two complementary approaches: studying the components of disease that are related to aging and studying the underlying mechanisms of aging and how they regulate the processes in our bodies.

For 29 years, the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) has been at the forefront of this revolutionary approach to the science of healthier aging. AFAR has played a major role in providing and advancing knowledge of aging and mechanisms of age-related disease by providing grants to more than 2,600 talented scientists. To learn more about AFAR, click here. We also invite you to visit our web site InfoAging.org for the latest information on the biology of aging, common diseases of aging and healthy lifestyles.

Research and Grants
Our grant and fellowship programs encourage scientists and physicians to pursue careers in the aging field. To learn more about our grant programs, click here.