Adherence
Adopting a low-risk lifestyle profile (non-smoking, regular physical activity, healthy social network, and leisure activities) significantly extends median survival in adults aged 75 and older, adding approximately 5-6 years compared to high-risk profiles.
If you are over 75, your lifestyle still matters significantly for how long you live. Focus on staying physically active (walking, swimming, gymnastics), avoiding smoking, maintaining social connections, and engaging in leisure activities. These combined behaviors can add roughly five to six years to your life expectancy compared to a high-risk profile, even if you have chronic health conditions.
A low risk profile added five years to women’s lives and six to men’s lives... Median survival of people with a low risk compared with high risk profile was 5.4 years longer.
Why this rating
Longitudinal population-based study with 1810 participants followed for 18 years, though self-reported data and survival selection bias are acknowledged limitations.
Source
Lifestyle, social factors, and survival after age 75: population based study
Debora Rizzuto et al. · BMJ · 2012
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