Aging expert Steven N. Austad on why the president is in better shape than many may assume.
, he was much more forceful, faster, with a crisper delivery when he speaks — even if what he’s saying is nonsensical. Do these changes tell you much, if anything, about actual cognition?
a few months back. But to me, somebody who thinks about and watches older people a lot, the important thing was that he caught himself. He didn’t hit his head, he didn’t get hurt.Yeah, exactly right. And to me, anybody could trip over a sandbag and fall, but a lot of older people would do that and they’d hit their face and they’d end up with a concussion. He seemed to be fine.
But all four of their parents lived to between 86 and 93. And, of course, they both have access to the best medical care that money can buy. How much does your and other people’s optimism about their longevity come from genetic factors alone and how much all environmental ones like their wealth? But the other thing that plays into this is education and high SES, socioeconomic status. Those things are associated with better health and longer life. I think it’s pretty safe to say that both of them are well educated and they’re of high SES status. The odds are they’re going to be healthy through those years, but you never can be sure.
I think that’s true. The really old people that I’ve interacted with have really had this sort of calm about them and this unflappability no matter what happened. And I think that’s probably a very useful psychological attitude. And Biden, given all the personal hell that he’s been through … he’s got to have a very robust psychology, from my perspective.
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