Key points

Aging doesn’t necessarily mean a steady decline in functioning or resilience following an injury.

The healthier we are before an illness in our senior years, the more likely we are to recover well.

Social support, good sleeping habits, diet, and activity levels are all associated with healthy aging.

A friend of mine in his early 60s recently fell off a shed he was building. The shattered bone and the lengthy rehab would be hard on anyone. Should he expect, though, to return to optimal mental and physical functioning, despite his age? There’s some good news (at least for some of us) from a large national study of over 8,000 adults age 45-85. For this study, researchers Mable Ho and Esme Fuller-Thomson from the University of Toronto focused on those who were over 60 after part

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