OBJECTIVE Until now, prospective studies of aging have begun with 50-60-year-olds, not adolescents. Premature death, childhood variables, and alcohol abuse have been often ignored, as has successful aging. METHOD The authors reviewed the existing literature on health in late life in order to highlight that, increasingly, successful aging is not an oxymoron. The present study followed two coho...

1 School of Public Health and Health Services, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA 2Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia 3Nutrition, Exercise Physiology Laboratory, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, MA 02111, USA 4Department of Sports Medical Sciences, Institute of Pathogenesis a...

conclusions: focusing on successful aging and adopting hpbs can prevent and decrease aging problems which in turn decreases the financial burden and related costs. this is especially important for the policy and decision makers of the health systems. results: the mean age of the participants in this study was 65.9 ± 3.6 (range 60-73). results showed a statistically significant difference betwee...