Are You A Super Ager? I Think We Have A Few Here On SF

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What is a Super Ager? I call them Super Seniors. According to the article linked below:
"There isn’t a single definition of a SuperAger.
According to the SuperAgers Family Study funded by the American Federation for Aging Research, anyone over 95 years old who has a healthy cognitive capacity and the capabilities to consent to the study is considered a SuperAger. Researchers at the SuperAging Research Initiative at Northwestern define it as anyone in their 80s or 90s who has the brain capacity of someone in their 50s or 60s as measured by cognitive tests. The brain of SuperAgers shrinks at a slower rate than the average aging brain. Those in this category may also have the biological signs of cognitive decline but are resilient to actual cognition changes, Milman says."
https://fortune.com/well/article/how-to-be-a-superager/
 

No, I am afraid not, at least not mentally. I hope to just be an “Average Ager” at that age. My goal is to stay at a high level physically to “stay on my feet” with hopes that this has beneficial cognitive side effects. I do regular memory work reciting 19 passages of scripture and a few songs while I jog and play musical instruments. But I find myself forgetting names at times.
 
Radrook said:
I was going by the criteria posted as follows:

Researchers at the SuperAging Research Initiative at Northwestern define it as anyone in their 80s or 90s
https://fortune.com/well/article/how-to-be-a-superager/

At 78, that places me two year away.
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Ah, okay... congrats anyhow. :giggle: I was going by the first definition posted: According to the SuperAgers Family Study funded by the American Federation for Aging Research, anyone over 95 years old who has a healthy cognitive capacity and the capabilities to consent to the study is considered a SuperAger
 
I have no idea.
We have had many in the family-all male. Grandfather, 99 (died due to an accident), g-grandfather, 102, cousin, 98. There are more, further back in time.
I had three other male cousins that passed in the last couple years, all 92-93ish. Of course that is less than 95!
 
OneEyedDiva said:
What is a Super Ager? I call them Super Seniors. According to the article linked below:
"There isn’t a single definition of a SuperAger.
According to the SuperAgers Family Study funded by the American Federation for Aging Research, anyone over 95 years old who has a healthy cognitive capacity and the capabilities to consent to the study is considered a SuperAger. Researchers at the SuperAging Research Initiative at Northwestern define it as anyone in their 80s or 90s who has the brain capacity of someone in their 50s or 60s as measured by cognitive tests. The brain of SuperAgers shrinks at a slower rate than the average aging brain. Those in this category may also have the biological signs of cognitive decline but are resilient to actual cognition changes, Milman says."
'SuperAgers' have optimal brains well into their 80s. Can you become one?
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I’ vote @DaveA as super ager. I think he’s 94 or 95 with super cognitive abilities. He’s decades older than me but with BETTER cognitive functioning.
 
dilettante said:
Threads like this remind me that most people here are my parents' age (if they were still living), not my age. All of my siblings are younger than I am.
Is there a forum site for retired people who still have teeth?
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You seem so unhappy here... I hope you're able to find that other forum that you'd enjoy more. It's really sad because there are such wonderful and caring people here. But... if you're miserable using a forum, there's probably one that will suit better. For the record, no,
"most" are not an age to be your parent... just a few. Many of us are younger than you are. I sincerely hope you find happiness.
 
My Paternal great grandfather lived to be 95.. still fit, only had hearing loss, and wore a deaf aid... dressed in his suit every day, and would walk to the pub at the end of the road to get his daily whisky.

he was run over by a bus which mounted the pavement when I was 10 years old..!... I often wonder how long he would have lived. His daughter my Grandmother never smoked or drank and died at 82.. her son my father smoked all his life and died at 82...all of them were smart as a tack.. but the latter 2 didn't get past their early 80's..
 
hollydolly said:
you will be what in 2 years ?:unsure: 98 ?
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I am assuming I will be what the article is referring to as a super-ager: Eighty.

Researchers at the SuperAging Research Initiative at Northwestern define it as anyone in their 80s or 90s who has the brain capacity of someone in their 50s or 60s as measured by cognitive tests.

BTW: My cognitive abilities have significantly increased, not declined, since my fifties and sixties. For example, back then I passed my college entrance English proficiency exam at the doctoral level, and my English proficiency is far greater now. I am also a far stronger chess player now than I was back then. I am also I ten times a better writer and a far better guitarist now.

Of course I am assuming that I will be alive and will not be suffering from Alzheimer's by that time.
 
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A ninety-year-old man and a 20 year old are paired together at a golf tournament. They’re playing a long par 5 that dog legs around some tall trees. As the 20 year old sets up his tee shot to hit onto the fairway the old man notes: “When I was your age I used to hit over the trees, not around to the side.”

So the 20 year old readjusts and tries to hit over the trees but can’t clear them and loses his ball. He tries again and loses that one too.
Then the old man says: “Of course, when I was your age, the trees were only 6 foot tall.”
 
CallMeKate said:
I like that definition! One of my Dad's cousins is nearing 99 and extremely sharp. I hope I'm like that when it's "Super Ager" time... but I still have 30 years to go before I know for sure when I'm 95. :giggle:
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Kate. even though 95 showed first, the research center lowered the age range so it starts in the 80s.
"Researchers at the SuperAging Research Initiative at Northwestern define it as anyone in their 80s or 90s who has the brain capacity of someone in their 50s or 60s as measured by cognitive tests."
So you'll qualify up to 15 years earlier. :D
 
dilettante said:
Threads like this remind me that most people here are my parents' age (if they were still living), not my age. All of my siblings are younger than I am.

Is there a forum site for retired people who still have teeth?
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I am 56 so probably one of the younger people here. Not all of my teeth are real though so I might not count. 😆 They are permanent fake teeth not dentures if that matters.
 
dilettante said:
Threads like this remind me that most people here are my parents' age (if they were still living), not my age. All of my siblings are younger than I am.

Is there a forum site for retired people who still have teeth?
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Wait...you mean you're just a "baby senior"?! :LOL: I still have my bottom teeth. I had to have most of the top ones out when I was in my 20's due to an unusual condition.
 
PeppermintPatty said:
I’ vote @DaveA as super ager. I think he’s 94 or 95 with super cognitive abilities. He’s decades older than me but with BETTER cognitive functioning.
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I thank you for your vote, dear lady, but you give me credit for a few extra years. I'm actually only 90. Possibly being married for the past 68 years to a younger woman for the has helped me to maintain my youthfulness, she being only 88.
PeppermintPatty said:
I’ vote @DaveA as super ager. I think he’s 94 or 95 with super cognitive abilities. He’s decades older than me but with BETTER cognitive functioning.
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DaveA said:
I thank you for your vote, dear lady, but you give me credit for a few extra years. I'm actually only 90. Possibly being married for the past 68 years to a younger woman for the has helped me to maintain my youthfulness, she being only 88.
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She’s only 88.😂
Even so, at 90 you certainly have great cognitive ability. You probably have better cognitive ability than most of us here. At least in ‘my opinion.’
 

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