{"id":8953,"date":"2017-12-15T05:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T10:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8953"},"modified":"2017-12-14T11:20:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T16:20:28","slug":"good-friends-might-be-your-best-brain-booster-as-you-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8953","title":{"rendered":"Good Friends Might Be Your Best Brain Booster As You Age"},"content":{"rendered":"

(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

Ask Edith Smith, a proud 103-year-old, about her friends, and she\u2019ll give you an earful.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s Johnetta, 101, whom she\u2019s known for 70 years and who has Alzheimer\u2019s disease. \u201cI call her every day and just say \u2018Hi, how are you doing?\u2019 She never knows, but she says hi back, and I tease her,\u201d Smith said. Continue reading article here…<\/a><\/p>\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n

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