If you submitted questions to LAURA CARSTENSEN on Facebook Open Office Hours, you might find her answers on the new video posted on the Stanford Facebook page.
“Collectively, a group of you really posed the questions that most scientists and most policy makers are asking now,” Carstensen, director of the Center on Longevity, says on the video.
To one of the questions, “Why do we age?” Carstensen says: “The answer is we don’t know.” Some species don’t age, she says. But all humans do. The longest lived person ever? A French woman who died at 122.
If you’d like to hear more on the topic of aging and longevity, come to the Stanford Roundtable, which takes place Saturday, Oct. 23, at 9:30 a.m. at Maples Pavilion. The title of the event is “Generation Ageless: Longevity and the Boomers.”
Ticket information is available on the Roundtable website. You also can tune in to the event, which will be moderated by NBC’s Tom Brokaw, via live webcast.
