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.

The American Federation for Aging Research hosts numerous events throughout the year, including briefings, meetings, conferences, and other special events. Find out more by clicking below.

• Annual Dinner Brings Together Corporate Leaders, Philanthropic Visionaries and CT Scans of Potato Chips — October 6, 2009
• AFAR to Co-host Conference on Aging and Healthy Lifespan — September 23, 2009
• Save the Dates: October 5 and 6, 2009 - AFAR Awards Dinner and Scientific Conference — May 2009
• AFAR Hosts Scott Small Lecture on Alzheimer's Disease Research — April 2009
• Time on Our Side: Is Living to 100 Within Our Grasp? — March 2009
• AFAR Hosts Conference on Cancer and Aging —
  October 2008
• AFAR Honors Corporate Leaders for their Contributions to Research on Aging and Diseases of Aging —
  October 2008
• AFAR Hosts Conference on Biomarkers of Aging — October 2007
• AFAR Sustains the Momentum at Awards Dinner — October 2007
• AFAR Leadership to Speak at the Aspen Health Forum — October 2007
• Why We Age: The Cancer/Aging Paradox — November 2006
• Rats, Cats and Bats: What the Natural World Can Teach Us About Improving Health and Extending Life — October 2006
• AFAR Celebrates 25 Years of Advancing Great Minds in Science — May 2006
• Top Neuroscientists Gather at Imaging Conference on the Aging Brain — May 2006
• You Must Remember This: The Aging Brain in the Boomer Years — March 2006
• What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted? The Future: Repairing from Within — January 2006
• Stem Cells and Aging: Celebrating the Promise — October 2005
• World Enough and Time: The Science, Politics and Ethics of Longevity Medicines — July 2005
• The Race...Against Time: Can We Tweak the Aging Process — June 2005
• The Politics of Older Adult Obesity — December 2004
• Great Expectations Awards Dinner — November 2004
• In Search of the Fountain of Health: Hype & Hope — June 2004
• Questions and Controversies in Osteoporosis Treatment — March 2004