Research has found that aging improves cognitive and physical functions, challenging the notion that growing older leads to decline.
The researchers at Yale University, US, reveal that nearly half of the older adults over 65 improved in cognitive and physical functions over time based on data from the Health and Retirement Study.
Additionally, the 12-year follow-up revealed that 45% of these participants improved in at least one domain. Highlights include that people who had positive beliefs about aging were more likely to improve.
“Our findings suggest there is often a reserve capacity for improvement in later life. And because age beliefs are modifiable, this opens the door to interventions at both the individual and societal level,” says lead author Becca Levy, professor of social and behavioral sciences at the…