Health & Wellness Series-Funded by a gift from Shire Human Genetic Therapies

Living to 100: Lessons in Living to Your Maximum Potential with Dr. Thomas Perls ** in Cary Hall - 1605 Massachusetts Ave ** Sunday, November 14 @ 2:00 p.m. Dr. Perls is a physician and researcher in the study of aging at Boston University Medical School and cares for older patients at Boston Medical Center. For the past eight years he has directed the New England Centenarian Study (NECS). Centenarians have a history of aging very slowly and have either markedly delayed or entirely escaped diseases normally associated with aging such as Alzheimer's disease, cancer, stroke and heart disease. Though genetics plays an important role in getting to 100, the centenarian study and its collaborators show how it may be possible for people to live to their late eighties in exceptional health.