The secret to a long life is to stay busy, get plenty of exercise and don’t drink too much. Then again, don’t drink too little.-- Hermann Smith-Johannson, 103-year-old cross-country skier, quoted in The New York Times, March 20, 1979.
April 3, 2007 -- The key to long life is a vivid interest in the world around you, a survey of 100-year-olds suggests.
That means people born when Teddy Roosevelt was president are watching music videos, ordering at Starbucks, and even listening to iPods, according to the poll from Evercare, a division of UnitedHealth Group focused on the health care needs of Americans aged 50 and older.
"We are finding older Americans are staying engaged and staying on top of what is going on in the world," Sherri Snelling, director of caregiving services at Evercare, tells WebMD.
Evercare's second annual telephone poll of 100 people aged 99 and older isn't a scientific study -- it's a snapshot of the attitudes of American 100-year-olds. Eighty-seven percent of survey respondents were white; 70% still lived at home; 95% were 100 or older; and 70% were women.
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