“Let me not live to old age” – you think because you are afraid of infirmity, dementia, being strolled in a wheelchair or even walking with a walking frame. Unnecessarily. It looks like you can be quite a healthy old man.
American scientists have just started with the centenarians. They took a closer look at their health and were surprised by the results of their research. It turned out that centenarians … don’t get sick very often.
The head of the research, prof. Nir Barzilai from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York used the data of 3 people for his analyzes. centenarians and people over 95 years of age. They were long-lived from the USA, Australia, Great Britain, Ireland and New Zealand.
Twenty percent of the world’s retirees develop cancer at the age of 67 (men) and 74 (women). Meanwhile, those who will live to be around a hundred, aged 60-70, hardly know what a serious disease is. If they get cancer, it won’t be until about 30 years. Because statistically, a long-lived man starts to suffer from cancer only at the age of 97, and a woman – after turning 99.
– A longer life does not have to mean a long, chronic illness – argues the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, citing the above-mentioned research. Though centenarians live longer than most people of the same year, they begin to decline much later
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the percentage of centenarians is steadily increasing. While in 1990, for 10 thousand people from 65 years of age accounted for 2,9 percent centenarians, in 2015 already 7,4 percent. In 2050, centenarians are to constitute 23,6 percent. all retirees.
According to the data of the Ministry of the Interior (based on the PESEL register), 2015 thousand people lived in Poland in mid-4,2. centenarians. Three-quarters of them are women.