This issue of the National Instiitute on Aging's Today's Research in Aging newsletter was produced by the Population Reference Bureau with funding from the University of Michigan Demography Center. This center coordinates dissemination of findings from 3 National Institutes of Aging demography centers. This issue was written by Diana Lavery, an intern at the Population Reference Bureau; and Marlene Lee, a senior research associate at PRB.
Personal choices made earlier in life can have lasting effects on elderly health. Decisions about exercise, nutrition, smoking, and drinking behavior, as well as some less obvious choices such as pursuit of higher education, whether or not to marry, and which neighborhood to live in all have consequences much later in life. Not only can such choices in one’s adult life affect elderly health, but so can characteristics of one’s childhood.
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