The American Aging Association is a non-profit, tax-exempt biogerontology organization of scientists and laypeople dedicated to biomedical aging studies and geroscience, with the goal of slowing the aging process to extend the healthy human lifespan while preserving and restoring functions typically lost to age-related degeneration.
[1] The abbreviation AGE is intended to be representative of the organization, even though it is not an acronym (avoids possible confusion with the American Automobile Association, AAA).
[2][3] Harman's goal was to form a lay-scientific organization patterned after the American Heart Association to promote biomedical aging research.
AGE has received research grants from the National Institutes of Health[4][5] and the Ellison Medical Foundation.
[6] In 2016, AGE became a member of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.