{"id":562387,"date":"2023-03-11T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/brett-arendss-roi-this-one-simple-trick-helps-seniors-live-longer\/"},"modified":"2023-03-11T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T13:00:00","slug":"brett-arendss-roi-this-one-simple-trick-helps-seniors-live-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/brett-arendss-roi-this-one-simple-trick-helps-seniors-live-longer\/","title":{"rendered":"#Brett Arends&#039;s ROI: This one simple trick helps seniors live longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3e2f17c2c90\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span 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href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/brett-arendss-roi-this-one-simple-trick-helps-seniors-live-longer\/#Brett_Arends\" >Brett Arends<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CBrett_Arendss_ROI_This_one_simple_trick_helps_seniors_live_longer%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Brett Arends&#039;s ROI: This one simple trick helps seniors live longer&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"article__subhead\" itemprop=\"alternativeHeadline\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Regular_daily_social_contact_is_a_key_factor_for_health_among_the_elderly\"><\/span>\n  Regular, daily social contact is a key factor for health among the elderly<br \/>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"column column--full article__content\">\n<div class=\"article__side\">\n<div class=\"container--sticky not-active\">\n<div id=\"cx-next\" data-nosnippet>\n              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data-theme=\"wsj-article-reader\" data-show-header=\"false\" data-show-subscribe=\"false\" data-ads-enabled=\"true\" data-save-publication=\"false\">\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>       If you\u2019re elderly here\u2019s some excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>. That daily card or board <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> with friends? Those long hours spent chatting in the caf\u00e9?<\/p>\n<p> They\u2019re good for you.<\/p>\n<p>Elderly people who <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>ize everyday are much more likely to live longer, while isolating them is one of the worst things you can do for their health as well as their well-being.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n       So reports <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/jech.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2023\/02\/07\/jech-2022-219791\" class=\"icon none\">a major new study<\/a>, based on multiple\u00a0five-yearly surveys of more than 28,000 elderly Chinese over a 20-year period. <\/p>\n<p>Those who socialized every day were nearly 60% less likely to die in any given year than those who didn\u2019t really socialize at all, report researchers Ziqiong Wang, Yi Zheng, Haiyan Ruan, Liying Li, Linjia Duan and Sen He from the department of cardiology at Sichuan University in China.\u00a0This was among the very elderly: The average age of the participating subject was 89 years old. The research, published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, was based on the long-running Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Study.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cThis study found that frequent participation in social activity was associated with prolonged overall survival time,\u201d the researchers found. They added: \u201cFrom baseline to 5 years of follow-up, the more frequent the social activity, the more prolonged the survival time\u2026social participation was a strong protective factor of health and longevity for older people.\u201d Participating in social activities every day was associated with prolonged survival time even beyond\u00a0five\u00a0years, they added.<\/p>\n<p>This may be the biggest contribution yet to the growing evidence that regular, daily social contact is a key factor for health among the elderly, and especially among the very elderly\u2014in addition to being a key factor for quality of life. Other studies\u2014such as <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/34894534\/\" class=\"icon none\">this one<\/a> published last year and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32165451\/\" class=\"icon none\">this one<\/a> published in 2020 have found much the same thing. Other studies have found that elderly people who socialize more may be less likely to develop dementia, heart disease or depression.<\/p>\n<p>Technically, they can\u2019t prove that socializing makes older people healthier or live longer, only that older people who do socialize a lot tend to be healthier and live longer. (All these \u201cobservational\u201d studies, which are based on observing people as they go about their daily lives, suffer from obvious limitations. You couldn\u2019t really\u00a0<em>prove<\/em>\u00a0causation unless you were free to lock 10,000 subjects up in a lab, like rats or guinea pigs, for five or 10 years, and some people might object to that on ethical grounds.)<\/p>\n<p>So the connection between socializing and living longer may involve correlation as well as, or instead of, causation. Those who have lots of friends, for example, may be less likely to smoke, more likely to be physically active, and more likely to eat healthier foods, the researchers note.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless the growing evidence shows a pretty strong connection between staying social and living a longer, healthier life. It\u2019s\u00a0been\u00a0over a decade since pop <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> writer Malcolm Gladwell\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/30\/books\/chapters\/chapter-outliers.html\" class=\"icon none\">wrote about the town<\/a>\u00a0of Roseto, Pa., where the strong social bonds of the Italian-American community <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2718612\/\" class=\"icon none\">coincided with apparently longer, healthier lives<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"byline article__byline\">\n<p>    <span>By<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"author mobile-scrim hasMenu\" data-scrim='{\"type\":\"author\",\"header\":\"Brett Arends\",\"subhead\":\"The Wall Street Journal\",\"list\":[{\"type\":\"link\",\"icon\":\"bio\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/topics\/journalists\/brett-arends\",\"text\":\"Biography\"},{\"type\":\"link\",\"icon\":\"twitter\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrettArends\",\"text\":\"@BrettArends\"},{\"type\":\"link\",\"icon\":\"email\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/mailto:barends@marketwatch.com\",\"text\":\"barends@marketwatch.com\"}]}' itemscope itemprop=\"author\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\">\n<h4 itemprop=\"name\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Brett_Arends\"><\/span>Brett Arends<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><ufc-follow-author-widget product=\"marketwatch\" author-id=\"209_MW\" author-name=\"Brett Arends\" signin-url=\"https:\/\/accounts.marketwatch.com\/login?target=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.marketwatch.com%2Fstory%2Fthis-one-simple-trick-helps-seniors-live-longer-abd36c08%3Frss%3D1%26siteid%3Drss\" panda-api=\"https:\/\/follow-api.marketwatch.com\"><\/ufc-follow-author-widget><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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