SASKATOON (Staff) – Want to live to be 100? Here are the tips from a psychologist’s survey of 100 centenarians reported in the newsletter of the National Advisory Council on Aging.
Dr. Leonard Poon said mental health is more crucial to longevity than the genes one inherits from parents, or what you have eaten over a lifetime.
Those living to age 100 appear to be “optimistic, to be passionately engaged in some activity and have the ability to adapt to repeated losses over time.”
Recently the Manitoba government committed $1.2 million of research money to get information to develop a “long-term strategy for the care of Manitoba’s elderly.” It will examine the needs of family caregivers, the use of the provincial home-care program and products and services to prevent disease or delay chronic illness.
