HOW BIOLOGICALLY OLD ARE YOU?

How biologically old are you? The project aims to provide an accurate answer to this ambitious and challenging question.

The human body has two different ages: a Chronological Age (CA) and a Biological Age (BA). Chronological Age refers to the actual time a human has been alive, while Biological Age refers to how old that human seems. The real BA is different to the CA because it includes the speed at which each person is aging and, for this reason, it is dramatically difficult to estimate. At the same time, the knowledge of an accurate BA index for each individual is of vital importance because it can be used to identify causes of aging and evaluate rejuvenation therapies and, thus, it impacts on different spheres of the society, including, among others, health, economics, political and welfare strategies and decisions.

The MIR-AGE project has the ambitious and challenging goal to propose, and experimentally validate, an innovative tool for accurately estimating and predicting the BA of each individual. This research study is of primary interest and directly impacts one of the societal challenges and priorities of the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, H2020, namely the “Health, demographic change and wellbeing”. In addition, different public and private organizations have expressed their interest on the MIR-AGE project activities, such as AitAAL (Italian Association for AAL), INNOVAAL, FIMMG (Federazione Italiana Medici di Medicina Generale Regione Marche), DAN (Divers Alert Network Europe), UNIVERSITY OF PASSAU (Complex & Intelligent Systems), INRCA ((Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico – IRCCS) and ASUR (Azienda Sanitaria Unica Regionale).