Quoted: Becca Levy

Yale School of Medicine.

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“Many people equate aging with an inevitable and continuous loss of physical and cognitive abilities. What we found is that improvement in later life is not rare, it’s common, and it should be included in our understanding of the aging process.”

—Becca Levy, professor of public health and psychology, in a School of Public Health article about her new study in the journal Geriatrics. Levy and Martin Slade ’01MPH found that nearly half of adults aged 65 and older showed measurable improvement in cognitive function, physical function, or both, over time.