Thelma Sutcliffe, Oldest Woman in U.S., Dies at 115. This Was the Secret to Her Long Life
Sutcliffe, who was born in 1906 in Nebraska, saw 20 different presidents elected in her lifetime.
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Sutcliffe, who was born in 1906 in Nebraska, saw 20 different presidents elected in her lifetime.
E-Mail (Boston)--If you come from a family where people routinely live well into old age, you will likely have better cognitive function (the ability to clearly think, learn and remember) than peers from families where people die younger. Researchers affiliated with the Long Life Family Study (LLFS) recently broadened that finding in a paper published in Gerontology, suggesting that people who belong to long-lived families also show slower cognitive decline over time. The Long Life Family Study has enrolled over 5,000 participants from almost 600 families and has been following them for t...