There have been plenty of studies on populations known for their longevity, many from areas called the Blue Zones - in Italy, Greece, Japan, Costa Rica and California - where people, on average, live much longer than normal. “It’s the opposite of what we might expect when we think about aging, but it shows that getting older is not all gloom and doom.”
(Volunteers for the study had to sign a consent form and participate in an hour-long interview, he says, which would have ruled out anyone with significant dementia or age-related cognitive decline.) “Things like happiness and satisfaction with life went up, and levels of depression and stress went down,” Jeste says. Jeste calls this the paradox of aging: Even as physical health deteriorated, mental health quality, at least for the people in the study, remained high.
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