The group found that those elderly people who were able to retain a sense of independence were more likely to stay healthy in old age.

该研究小组发现，那些能够保持独立意识的老年人在老年时更有可能保持健康。

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Laozi Statue is forged of fine copper, 2.8m high, healthy in old age and composed.

老子像由纯铜锻造而成，像高2.8米，鹤发童颜，神态安详。

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But in a country that is rapidly aging while staying healthy longer, what does old age mean, and how much should it matter?

但是随着美国迅速步入老龄化，同时老年人的健康时光不断延长，年龄大意味着什么？这又有多重要呢？

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In a recent paper in The Lancet, Masashi Tanaka and his colleagues at the Gifu International Institute of Biotechnology, in Japan, reported that they had found a gene which is carried by a majority of Japanese centenarians, but by less than half of the rest of the Japanese population, suggesting that it could play an important role in a healthy old age.

ECONOMIST: Centenarians

One of these molecules, resveratrol, is found in red wine which created excitement among those who think that a wine-rich diet is part of the explanation for the healthy old age apparently enjoyed by many who live in southern Europe.

ECONOMIST: How to live longer��maybe

We want to think that our parents will be healthy, fine, live happily until a ripe old age and die peacefully in their sleep.

FORBES: A Startling Statistic