But one of the longest studies of male human development, begun in , brings reason for hope for those who might still, nonetheless, have decades ahead. Close relationships, more than fame, success, social class, IQ, genes and income, were better predictors of long and happy lives.

Time is gold and, paradoxically, time is on the side of the very old, because they have so much more of it, freed from employment, child-rearing, care-giving, juggling. Male and female, they perhaps appreciate when so much closer to death what to really value in life.

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The study looked at , people in nearly countries and found that while both family and friends are associated with happiness and better health, as people aged, the health link remained only for people with strong friendships.

If the primacy of family has been oversold as a key to long life, so has the importance of avoiding conflict or emotional upset. In a study published by the American Aging Association, researchers analyzed data from the Georgia Centenarian Study, a survey of people who were at least or nearly years old, as well as family members and other proxies who provided information about them.

The investigators were looking at how the subjects scored on various personality traits, including conscientiousness, extraversion, hostility and neuroticism. As a group, the centenarians tested lower on neuroticism and higher on competence and extraversion.

Their proxies ranked them a bit higher on neuroticism, as well as on hostility. At the same time that crankiness, judiciously deployed, can be adaptive, its polar opposite—cheerfulness and optimism—may be less so. Worried people are likelier to be vigilant people, alert to a troubling physical symptom or a loss of some faculty that overly optimistic people might dismiss.

Friedman and his collaborator Leslie R. Martin, a professor of psychology at La Sierra University in Riverside, Calif. It is O. to fret—if in a responsible manner.

One tip for long life that is not coming in for quite so much revisionist thinking is exercise—and some seniors are achieving remarkable things. Take Ginette Bedard, 84, of Howard Beach, N. It was a drizzly morning last Nov.

So she decided to become one of them. She began training daily until she could run the full Few physicians would recommend that all octogenarians pick up a three-hour-a-day running habit, but adding even a small amount of movement to daily life has been repeatedly shown to be beneficial, for a whole range of reasons.

Thomas Gill, director of the Yale Program on Aging. It also provides a benefit to psychology, by lifting spirits. Exactly how much—or how little—exercise it takes to begin paying dividends has been one of the happy surprises of longevity research.

A study found that exercising even just two days a week can lower risk for premature death. Similarly, year-old Ashdown phones her takeout orders into Tal Bagels on First Avenue, not some trendy vegan joint. Martin notes that while most centenarians eat different but generally healthy diets, one consistent thing he has picked up from work with his plus crowd is breakfast.

Alcohol has its place too. A study found that women over age 50 who were categorized as normal weight, but reported fluctuating dropping more than 10 lb. and gaining it back at least three times were 3½ times more likely to experience sudden cardiac death than those whose weight stayed the same.

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