Will You Become a Super-Ager ?
My grandmother was a super-ager. My dad caught her trying to bust up concrete with a sledgehammer when she was in her eighties. He scolded her for her “foolish” behavior. But my grandmother was used to being physically active. She also remained mentally engaged until two months before she died at age ninety-six, outliving her son. Super-agers: Cognitive and Physical Functioning A super-ager is someone who is at least in their seventies and has the cognitive functioning of an average middle-aged person. “Normally aging adults lose roughly 2.24 percent in brain volume per year, but the super-agers lost around 1.06 percent.…
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Will You Become a Super-Ager ?