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Leaving the House Linked To Longevity in Older Adults (yahoo.com)
Researchers in Israel have found that leaving the house regularly can "contribute to a longer life" for elderly people. From a report: For study participants in their 70s, 80s and 90s, the frequency with which they left the house predicted how likely they were to make it to the next age milestone, researchers report in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. "The simple act of getting out of the house every day propels people into engagement with the world," said lead author Dr. Jeremy Jacobs of Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem in a phone interview. "We saw similar benefits that you'd expect from treating blood pressure or cholesterol with medicine," Jacobs said. "Social factors are important in the process of aging." Jacobs and colleagues analyzed data on 3,375 adults at ages 70, 78, 85 and 90 who were participating in the Jerusalem Longitudinal Study.
simply being healthy enough to leave the house means you are not as sick
Nullius in verba
You have noticed a correlation. But always remember that correlation does not imply causation!
So I can ... oh, msmash, you are deceiving me!
So I can
Watch you weave then breathe your story lines
And what red light?
contributes to health problems.
systemditus?
I know it causes my blood pressure to rise when logging messages I need to troubleshoot a problem simply just get swallowed.
Why would anybody want to take over tents that nomadic Arabs have wandered away from?
But but but you need to learn how to use the journal to read your logsszzzzZ. Text logs that everyone can read is so 2000. Needing our software to read your logs is the new beezkneeZ.
This is a "what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger" facet of life.
Going outside early in life exposes one to more dangers. But if one survives the first 100 dangers, (from avoiding dark alleys to finding a new home) the body has strength and the mind has experience to recognize and survive the next 1,000 dangers.
You think Systemd broke itself?
Small minds think alike.
Maybe you broke it and blamed Systemd.
Systemd is not forgiving and shouldn't be.
Okay, so I'll leave the house. But do I have to actually talk to anyone while I'm out? The summary points to "social factors." Does sitting by myself at the park not cut it?
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And this, ladies and gentleman, is why we need term limits for our Representatives. For their own health and safety.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
Make everyone stay at home, all the time! As long as everyone dies by 65 or so, we are in good shape.
Well besides the SSDI people.
We're still working on that.
Have gnu, will travel.
Strom Thurmond lived a long time
YOU are turned up to 11!
Or that being in poor health means you're less inclined to exert yourself.
A lot of older folk here enjoy having a quiet day out, pogoing to the latest EDM and windsurfing with orcas, before a relaxing bike ride across the world's longest floating bridge and a visit to a local brewery, vineyard, or chocolate factory with friends.
It could be the exercise.
It could be the socialization.
It could be knowing our houses are worth more than your estates will ever be worth in your lifetime.
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Who do old people communicate with when they go out? Pigeons?
Stay off my lawn!
Second class citizen of the New Gilded Age
If you live to an old age, you are less likely to suffer from many illnesses.
If you have little illness, you are more likely to spend time outside.
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I've expected at least 10 people to mention that Mum's Basement Meme, can't believe I'm the first one.
Sitting for long stretches is not good for health, with or without the effect of socializing:-
https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/01/19/1149200/sitting-too-much-ages-you-by-8-years
From the article:
"The link between leaving the house and longevity, however, remained after the researchers accounted for medical or mobility issues such as chronic pain, vision or hearing impairment, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and kidney disease."
We all know that the media likes to ignore the difference between correlation and causation in favour of a good story; we also know that supposedly-scientific studies can be more lax in the same way than we'd like. On this occasion, however, prima facie, that doesn't seem to be the case.
This isn't an overt confusion of cause and effect. The study allowed for individual health factors, and still found a strong correlation.
This sounds an awful lot like your stereotypical "correlation is not causation" finding to me.
Longevity Linked To Leaving the House in Older Adults
Which means, if you are destined to live longer then you are more likely to leave the house. I mean, it simply will not change a thing if you force your grandma twice a day out of the house... (Contrary the stress levels caused by interrupting favorite soap opera may have even adverse effects... and not only on her health. ;-) )
Well, I've got to get back to work. When I stop rowing, the slave ship just goes in circles.
The cause of this correlation phenomena is obvious, at least to me, and affordably testable. BEANS
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