Your mother’s diet, your immune system and air pollution are among the many factors affecting how long you live and whether you develop Alzheimer’s or cancer. ERC researchers are unravelling the secrets of longevity, exploring ways of adding ‘life to years’ as well as ‘years to life’. (Hint: It helps to be a monk.)

Let’s start with the good news: most Europeans born today will live long lives – on average, 78 years for men and 83 years for women.

ESN presents the 2017 edition of the "year-in-review" publications.

> European Social Network's Annual Review 2017

In 2017, ESN published "Investing in later life: a toolkit for social services providing care for older people".

> Investing in later life: a toolkit for social services providing care for older people

We would like to draw your attention to the opportunity to submit an article to The Journal of Aging and Social Change for peer review and possible publication. We are now welcoming article submissions for current and future volumes of The Journal of Aging and Social Change. Those interested can submit using our new article submission form. We hope you will find our new submission process to be fast and informative.

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