Preview Clip: AFAR experts featured in PBS documentary, Incredible Aging

Posted October 10, 2018

AFAR is proud to have been a major advisor on the PBS documentary, Incredible Aging: Adding Life to Your Years, hosted by Meredith Vieira and premiering nationwide in March 2018. Several of the featured experts are members of AFAR’s community of grantees and board leadership, and AFAR Scientific Director Steven Austad, Ph.D. served as scientific consultant on the script. Based on the latest scientific research--much of it funded by AFAR--this program cuts a path toward understanding what aging means and how the latest information can help all of us live healthier lives as we grow older.

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