Want to live a long life? Personal connections and good food are key, experts on aging say

During a two-day “Century Summit” on issues facing an aging population, speakers at the Stanford Center on Longevity conference spoke of the need to avoid social isolation and to eat good food.

Using the “fireside chat” method to kick off the conference Tuesday, SCL founding director Laura Carstensen and Harvard Medical School professor and director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development Dr. Robert Waldinger talked about the predictors and patterns that lead to healthy aging over lives that may last 100 or more years.