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.

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healthy

[bugs2squash]

simply being healthy enough to leave the house means you are not as sick

Re:healthy

[fahrbot-bot]

"Constant Masturbation linked carpal tunnel syndrome."

You're holding it wrong.

Re:healthy

[PopeRatzo]

I leave the house every day. I walk to the liquor store on the corner for pork rinds, flavored vodka, cigarettes and scratch-off tickets. I guess this study means I'll live forever.

Re:healthy

[SandorZoo]

The very first sentence of the article says they tried to adjust for health (which is not a surprise):

For older people, getting out of the house regularly may contribute to a longer life - and the effect is independent of medical problems or mobility issues, according to new research from Israel.

The article is available for money from here, but the abstract says they adjusted for:

* social (sex, marital status, financial status, loneliness)
* functional (sex, self-rated health, fatigue, depression, physical activity, activity of daily living difficulty)
* medical (sex, chronic pain, visual impairment, hearing impairment, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, ischemic heart disease, chronic kidney disease)

Re:healthy

[HornWumpus]

Sad to say, the closest I can find is bacon.

But infused vodka is easy...

Re:healthy

[mikael]

The Japanese noticed this too. If someone became too ill/weak to walk around and could only sit in a chair, everything else deteriorated (bones, vascular system, weight). Just getting up out of a chair and walking around the house doing housework was better than sitting. Going outside into the garden was even better, and walking around the village and talking to people even better still.

Leaving the House

[mentil]

And this, ladies and gentleman, is why we need term limits for our Representatives. For their own health and safety.

Re:Leaving the House

[mentil]

She has to leave the House to, uhh, find out what's in it.

Re:Correlation does not imply causation!

[Oliver Wendell Jones]

God is love.
Love is blind
Stevie Wonder is blind
Stevie Wonder is God.

It's the Commutative Property of Theology

Are you sure you got the order right?

[Chris Mattern]

Researchers in Israel have found that leaving the house regularly can "contribute to a longer life" for elderly people

Or that being in poor health means you're less inclined to exert yourself.

Cause and Effect?

[B.Stolk]

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.