{"id":2412,"date":"2022-12-07T10:25:52","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T15:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2022-12-07T10:26:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T15:26:36","slug":"superagers-family-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/2022\/12\/07\/superagers-family-study\/","title":{"rendered":"SuperAgers Family Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/geriatrics\/files\/2021\/12\/Tom-Perls-head-shot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"312\" height=\"263\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2051\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>Dr. Tom Perls, Professor of Medicine and Director of the New England Centenarian Study, has started a new trial to investigate which natural and inherited factors lead to people living longer lives. This study, in collaboration with Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the American Federation for Aging Research, will use participants that are over 95 and their children to research these relationships. Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2022\/11\/27\/metro\/secret-longer-healthier-life-ambitious-new-trial-focuses-super-agers-seeks-thousands-families\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Boston Globe<\/a> article to learn more! For more information about the SuperAgers Family Study and how to be a part of it, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.superagersstudy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Tom Perls, Professor of Medicine and Director of the New England Centenarian Study, has started a new trial to investigate which natural and inherited factors lead to people living longer lives. This study, in collaboration with Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the American Federation for Aging Research, will use participants that are over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10303,"featured_media":2051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2422,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions\/2422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/geriatrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}