Senescence and longevity control

The paper notes that the available data about the factors affecting senescence and longevity processes enable to formulate the problem of controlling these processes at different levels: cells, organs, organism, population. The knowledge absorbed in biology, medicine, gerontology and demography should be generalized in a way to take into account the common features of the processes running in various-type systems. The paper analyzes the results of longevity experiments with C.elegans worms together with the data about human disability at advanced ages. Based on the results obtained, it offers potential ways to slow the aging and to increase the longevity.