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Aging is often depicted as a steady decline, but new research suggests that many older adults actually improve over time.<\/p>\n

Using more than a decade of data from a large, representative study of older Americans<\/a>, Yale University researchers found that nearly half of adults 65 and older showed improvement in cognitive function, physical function or both.<\/p>\n

The improvements were consistent across the study population, and were linked to the participants’ mindset about aging, according to a press release.<\/p>\n

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“In contrast to a predominant belief or stereotype that age is a time of continuous and inevitable decline, we found evidence that a meaningful number of older persons actually show improvement over 12 years in cognitive and\/or physical health<\/a>,” lead author Becca Levy, a professor of social and behavioral sciences at Yale, told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

The research, which was published in the journal Geriatrics, relied on data from the Health and Retirement Study, a federally supported, long-running survey of older Americans.<\/p>\n

Researchers tracked changes in cognition using global performance tests and measured physical function<\/a> based on walking speed, which was seen as a “vital sign” because of its strong links to disability, hospitalization and mortality.<\/p>\n

Over a 12-year period, 45% of participants improved either mentally or physically. About 32% showed cognitive gains, while 28% improved physically, according to the study.<\/p>\n

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“If you average everyone together, you see decline,” Levy said. “But when you look at individual trajectories, you uncover a very different story. A meaningful percentage of the older participants \u2026 got better.”<\/p>\n

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A participant\u2019s beliefs about aging appeared to influence the results, as those with more positive age beliefs<\/a> were significantly more likely to show improvements in both cognition and walking speed.<\/p>\n

This remained true even after accounting for factors such as age, sex, education, chronic disease, depression and the length of follow-up. Improvements were seen even among participants who started with “normal” levels of function, not just those recovering from injuries or illness<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Individuals who have taken in more positive age beliefs … tend to have a lower stress response and lower stress biomarkers,” Levy said. Because age beliefs are modifiable, she noted, there could be a capacity for improvements later in life.<\/p>\n

The study did have some limitations, the researchers acknowledged. It didn\u2019t look at how muscles or brain cells change and adapt, which could help explain why people improved.<\/p>\n

Future studies should examine improvement patterns for other types of cognition, such as spatial memory, they added.<\/p>\n

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“In addition, although our participants were drawn from a nationally representative sample, it would be useful to examine patterns of improvement in additional cohorts that have a greater representation of different ethnic minority groups,” the researchers noted in the study.<\/p>\n

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The authors said they hope the findings will debunk the myth that continuous physical and cognitive decline is inevitable.<\/p>\n

“We found evidence that there could be psychological pathways, behavioral pathways and physiological pathways [by which age beliefs impact health],” said Levy. “It\u2019s common, and it should be included in our understanding of the aging process<\/a>.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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