{"id":20663,"date":"2022-12-19T09:52:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T14:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20663"},"modified":"2022-12-19T09:52:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T14:52:15","slug":"are-you-an-optimist-could-you-learn-to-be-your-health-may-depend-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20663","title":{"rendered":"Are You an Optimist? Could You Learn to Be? Your Health May Depend on It."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News on December 13, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you think about the future, do you expect good or bad things to happen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you weigh in on the \u201cgood\u201d side, you\u2019re an optimist. And that has positive implications for your health in later life.  <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/navigating-aging-optimism-health\/\">Here&#8230;<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"78\" class=\"wp-image-899\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy new service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News on December 13, 2022 When you think about the future, do you expect<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,12],"tags":[92,91,94],"class_list":["post-20663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-health-care-general","tag-aging","tag-mental-health","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20663","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20664,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20663\/revisions\/20664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}