why today's sixty-year-olds are in much better shape than those of ten years ago

Are you 60 years old, and people tell you that you don't look your age? Do not see any base flattery in this. It's true, and it's science that says it: 70 has become the new 60, according to researchers at Columbia University. To reach this conclusion, they analyzed data from more than 14,000 English people born between 1940 and 1950, and assessed their cognitive, locomotor, psychological and sensory abilities. « These are the intrinsic abilities that must be preserved to age well, according to the definition of the World Health Organization. »explains Professor Éric Boulanger, director of Tempoforme, an aging prevention program in Hauts-de-France.

After analysis, the researchers found that those of a 62-year-old person born in 1950 were better than those of a person who was 62 years old ten years earlier. « We even found that a participant of 68 ans…