Robert Lufkin MD45% of Seniors Got Better With Age (Yale / Geriatrics)
Nearly half of adults over 65 got BETTER with age -- not worse. And mindset was the biggest predictor.
As a medical school professor, I was trained to see aging as inevitable decline. A Yale study of 11,000+ Americans followed for 12 years just shattered that belief.
The findings:
- 45% improved in cognition OR physical function
- 32% improved cognitively
- ... https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/yale-study-challenges-notion-that-aging-means-decline-finds-many-older-adults-improve-over-time/
