{"id":219765,"date":"2025-08-09T12:23:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T17:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/superagers-show-cognitive-decline-is-not-an-inevitable-part-of-aging"},"modified":"2025-08-09T12:23:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T17:23:53","slug":"superagers-show-cognitive-decline-is-not-an-inevitable-part-of-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/superagers-show-cognitive-decline-is-not-an-inevitable-part-of-aging","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSuperAgers\u201d Show Cognitive Decline Is Not an Inevitable Part of Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/superagers-show-cognitive-decline-is-not-an-inevitable-part-of-aging.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For 25 years, scientists at Northwestern Medicine have been studying people aged 80 years and older \u2013 dubbed \u201cSuperAgers\u201d \u2013 to uncover what makes them stand out.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study, researchers show that these individuals display memory performance comparable to those at least 30 years younger, defying the long-held belief that cognitive decline is an unavoidable part of aging.<\/p>\n<p>The study was published in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/alz.70312\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Alzheimer\u2019s &amp; Dementia<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 25 years, scientists at Northwestern Medicine have been studying people aged 80 years and older \u2013 dubbed \u201cSuperAgers\u201d \u2013 to uncover what makes them stand out. In a new study, researchers show that these individuals display memory performance comparable to those at least 30 years younger, defying the long-held belief that cognitive decline is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}