What are the Secrets of a Long and Healthy Life?

Study Seeks Long-Lived Families for Answers More and more people are living longer. But living to extreme old age is unusual and tends to run in some families. A new study, supported by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), aims to learn more about the secrets to long healthy life, and investigators are seeking long-lived families to help study this important question. In coming weeks, researchers in three regions — near Boston, New York and Pittsburgh — will be contacting older people to see if they and their families might be eligible and willing to participate in the Long Life Family Study. The study is looking for families with two or more healthy brothers and sisters who have lived to old age and can be interviewed in person.