{"id":22460,"date":"2017-07-26T16:48:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T20:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/?p=22460"},"modified":"2017-07-21T18:52:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T22:52:28","slug":"healthy-lifestyle-may-help-older-adults-preserve-their-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2017\/07\/healthy-lifestyle-may-help-older-adults-preserve-their-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthy lifestyle may help older adults preserve their independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Wiley press release:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15696\" src=\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/senior-man-cat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"290\" \/>In a study of men with an average age of 71 years, <strong>lifestyle factors such as never smoking, maintaining a healthy diet, and not being obese were associated with survival and high functionality over the next 16 years<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The study included 1104 men who completed a questionnaire. <strong>High functionality was defined as preserved ability in personal activities of daily living and cognitive function<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Additional studies are needed to investigate whether lifestyle changes after the age of 70 years may also lead to preserved independence.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are published in the <i>Journal of the American Geriatrics Society<\/i>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Wiley press release: In a study of men with an average age of 71 years, lifestyle factors such as never smoking, maintaining a healthy diet, and not being&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2017\/07\/healthy-lifestyle-may-help-older-adults-preserve-their-independence\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[321,10,339],"tags":[16,180,527],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22506,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22460\/revisions\/22506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}