Living Long and Well

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The paper explains how vital it is for senior citizens to promote their physical and mental health. The paper discusses how senior centers can promote more optimistic attitudes about aging and can encourage the maintenance of physically beneficial practices like exercise and moderate diets. The paper stresses that living long and aging well is not simply knowing what to do, but having the psychological motivation and community support to do so.

From the Paper:

"The quest for the fountain of youth and longevity has existed since time immemorial. However, only recently have scientists and anthropologists derived more effective methods to empirically study what enables certain people to live longer than others. A recent study of men over the ago of ninety, according to The New York Times, suggests that the secrets of living longer may simply be due to very simple good health practices. "Living past ninety, and living well, may be more than a matter of good genes and good luck. Five behaviors in elderly men are associated not only with living into extreme old age, a new study has found, but also with good health and independent functioning.""

Sample of Sources Used:

• Bakalar, Nicolas (19 Feb 2008)."Gentlemen, 5 Easy Steps to Living Long and Well." The New York Times. Retrieved 21 Feb 2008 at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/health/19agin.html?ei=5087&em=&en=fae200257d926575&ex=1203742800&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1203591878-GMiUQQA4E+X4CNyQOaRm+w
• Groot, Wim & Henriette Maassen van den Brink. (2004) "The health effects ofeducation: survey and meta-analysis." Department of Health Sciences, Maastricht University and "Scholar" Research Center for Education and Labor Market Department of Economics, University of Amsterdam. Retrieved 21 Feb 2008 at http://www1.fee.uva.nl/scholar/wp/wp50-04.pdf
• Waxman, Henry A. (17 Aug 2000). "Prescription Drug Coverage, Utilization, and Affordability for Senior Citizens in California." Special Investigations Division: Committee on Government Reform. U.S. House of RepresentativesRetrieved 21 Feb 2008 at http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20040830110648-77

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