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Healthy Lifestyle, Attitude Help Seniors Stay on Track
from USA Today
... Numerous studies aim to decipher how much genetics play a role in resilient aging as well as what life habits seem to enhance mental and physical well-being deep into the golden years. Scientists are finding that a rich and active social life combined with exercise are key factors.
And though genetics appears to influence longevity, a person's attitude about aging may be a driving force for whether he spends the later years of life in a nursing home or polar-bear-watching off a ship's deck in the Arctic ....
"The way you view the aging process, positively or negatively, is going to affect your quality of aging," says Luigi Ferrucci, director of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging at the National Institute on Aging. The 51-year study has tracked thousands through their young- and middle-adult years into old age.
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