Aging is the strongest risk factor for most chronic diseases; however, medicine has historically treated each condition individually. Geroscience is a new discipline that aims to define and modify aging-related biological pathways, slow age-related disability, prevent age-related diseases, and increase disability-free survival.

A review in JAMA outlines the aims, methods, recent advances, and ongoing challenges of geroscience.

The review was authored by Stephen B. Kritchevsky, PhD, Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Sticht Center for Healthy Aging and Alzheimer’s Prevention, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Steven R. Cummings, MD, California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, San Francis

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