{"id":13947,"date":"2019-09-03T08:12:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T12:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13947"},"modified":"2019-09-03T08:12:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T12:12:34","slug":"optimists-for-the-win-finding-the-bright-side-might-help-you-live-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13947","title":{"rendered":"Optimists For The Win: Finding The Bright Side Might Help You Live Longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Patti Neighmond for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>Good news for the cheery: A Boston study published this month suggests people who tend to be optimistic are likelier than others to live to be 85 years old or more.<\/p>\n<p>That finding was independent of other factors thought to influence life&#8217;s length \u2014 such as &#8220;socioeconomic status, health conditions, depression, social integration, and health behaviors,&#8221; the researchers from Boston University School of Medicine and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health say. Their work <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2019\/08\/20\/1900712116.short?rss=1\">appears in a recent issue <\/a>of the science journal <em>PNAS<\/em>.\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2019\/09\/01\/755185560\/optimists-for-the-win-finding-the-bright-side-might-help-you-live-longer\">article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Patti Neighmond for NPR) Good news for the cheery: A Boston study published this month suggests people who tend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13948,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13947\/revisions\/13948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}