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While we can’t control everything that impacts our health, making room for a more positive outlook in life can help support both wellbeing and longevity.
Centenarians are of such great interest to scientists because they may hold the key to understanding how we can live longer in good health.
The number of people living to 100 is rising. Diet, medication use, sleep and where you live could all contribute.
A daily glass of spirits is not the secret to living for a century or more. Here’s why.
Centenarians tend to have lower levels of glucose, creatinine and uric acid from their sixties onwards.
What is life like at 100? Centenarians shared their joys and future hopes with a team of Saskatchewan researchers.
The oldest person in the world, Kane Tanaka of Japan, died in April 2022 at 119 years. The record of Jeanne Calment of France, who died at 122, has stood for almost 25 years. Will it be beaten?
Many centenarians haven’t lived healthy lives, so are they genetically different?
Researchers think they’ve calculated the limit of human life span – but there’s more to it.
Britain’s longest-reigning monarch has seen a big rise in life expectancy since her birth in 1926.
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet
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Professor of Biogerontology, University of Brighton
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Professor of Gerontology and Public Health, Brunel University of London
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Instructor, Nursing, Saskatchewan Polytechnic
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Associate Professor, Centre for Positive Health Sciences, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Associate professor, HEC Montréal
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Assistant Professor of Nursing, University of Regina
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Reader in Ageing Physiology, University of Westminster
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Associate Research Scientist, Nursing, Saskatchewan Polytechnic
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Scientia Professor of Neuropsychiatry, Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), School of Psychiatry, UNSW
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Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney
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Professor of Medicine and Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine