Seniors Who Feel Their Life Has Purpose May Live Longer

Seniors Who Feel Their Life Has Purpose May Live Longer
Researchers found that seniors with higher purpose in lives were far less likely to die before the end of the ten-year study. Nathan Anderson/Unsplash
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Seniors who feel their life has purpose may be less likely to die from heart, circulatory, and digestive diseases and more likely to live longer, new data suggest.

In a study that followed nearly 7,000 people over age 50 for more than a decade, researchers determined that people were more likely to die at a younger age if they felt their lives had little purpose, according to the report published in JAMA Network Open.