"70 Is the New 60": Groundbreaking Study Redefines Aging

[erronis]

https://scitechdaily.com/70-is-the-new-60-groundbreaking-study-redefines-aging/

This is an interesting study. It is only for an English cohort but it should have some parallels for other populations.

Improvements in education, nutrition, and sanitation throughout the 20th century have likely been crucial in enhancing cognitive, motor, psychological, and sensory abilities.

A recent study from the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center at the Mailman School of Public Health highlights notable improvements in the overall health of older adults in England compared to previous generations. Instead of focusing solely on the presence or absence of disease, the research—published in Nature Aging—adopted a novel approach to assess trends in individuals’ functional abilities, including cognitive, locomotor, psychological, and sensory capacities.

Drawing on data from the English Longitudinal Study of Aging, the findings reveal that today’s older adults demonstrate better physical and mental functioning than their counterparts of earlier generations at the same age.

“These improvements were large,” said John Beard, MBBS, PhD, Irene Diamond Professor of Aging in Health Policy and Management in the Butler Columbia Aging Center of Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and author of the study. For example, a 68-year-old born in 1950 had a similar capacity to a 62-year-old born a decade earlier, and those born in 1940 had better functioning than those born in 1930 or 1920. Beard noted, “If we had compared someone born in 1950 with someone born in 1920, we would have likely observed even greater improvements.”

[rampartd]

1. i don't know

i fell apart at 60 , and it has taken me a decade to beat back the physical stuff and decide i'm going to live a few years . i'm looking at 70 as the new 20.

some articles lie this might be laying the propaganda groundwork for raaising the dsocial security age.

the fact that lawyers are living longer is no excuse to raise the retirement age of coal miners.

[yorkster]

5. Spot on comment about the propaganda

potential re social security.

[Turbineguy]

2. Republicans will put a stop to that.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. They must have been a comatose lot way back. /nt

[The Madcap]

4. Just an excuse

To keep us working longer for even less.

[Mr.Bill]

6. I live each decade like I will not make it to the end of that period.

I lived my teens like I would not make it to 20, lived my 20s like I would not make it to 30, and so on. I'm 71 now, and I'm sure I will not make it to 80.

The best thing about this is eventually I will be correct.

[LizBeth]

7. I am done with this shit.... I am in the time where I am suppose to look/be a decade younger

than what I am. Already so much pressure and expectation on women with body and looks now we got this.

[cyclonefence]

8. Seventy is *nothing* like sixty afaic

At sixty, I could physically do whatever I wanted to (I fortunately didn't want to run marathons or even down the street); life was good; I had energy and a real *life*. I truly felt like I was about 45 yrs old.

At sixty I didn't seen death hanging around every corner. I was able to cook dinner and be proud of it. I hated doing laundry, so I folded and put away *fast* to get it over with. I wasn't unsteady on my feet in my own house.

I wasn't decrepit, and now I am.

This study is bullshit. And it probably will result in R tampering w/ SS and Medicare.