Diane Keaton
[From article]
Much of the negative image of old age stems from research that was badly designed — directly comparing people who are 70 or 80 with people who are 20.
This is an unfair comparison, because of the advances of diet and healthcare, for example, that make today’s environment so much better for older people.
It really is time to say ‘Goodbye to Growing Old’ (picture posed by models)
In fact, when researchers follow people through life, the rate of decline and loss of function is much less today, and among the older generation many abilities actually improve.
Evidence of this can be found in abundance in scientific journals at the National Library of Medicine near Washington DC — many of which can be accessed online.
Put ‘healthy ageing’ or ‘healthy aging’ into the search box of nlm.nih.gov, where more than 23,000 scientific articles are presented. Just a few hours grazing through them can cheer you up no end!
If some of it seems a bit technical, then I particularly recommend a recent book called Our Ageing Brain, by André Aleman, Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Gronigen in the Netherlands, who clearly explains how wrong many of our assumptions have been about the workings of older brains.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2921000/How-beat-late-life-blues-gloomy-getting-older-simple-uplifting-tips-doctor-soon-spring-step.html
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PUBLISHED: 20:19 EST, 21 January 2015 | UPDATED: 03:43 EST, 22 January 2015
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