Living to 9. 0 and beyond. The following script is from . Lesley Stahl is the correspondent. Shari Finkelstein and Jennie Held, producers. It's always been a dream of mankind to live forever. Since the start of the 2. And more and more of us are making it into that group we all hope - - and kinda dread - - joining, the over 9. Yet very little is known about the oldest old, since until recently, there were so few of them.
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She saw a rare opportunity to study what worked, and what didn't. Lesley Stahl: So you- - did you try to find them? Claudia Kawas: We went after all 1. And if they were still alive, we wanted to find where they were. With $6 million of funding from the National Institutes of Health, Kawas and her team set out to find out who had died, when they died, and to convince those who were still living and over 9. Claudia Kawas: We're gonna have to have a party. Jane Whistler: Good! I love a party. Jane Whistler is one of the more than 1,6. They are checked from top to bottom every six months - - their facial muscles, reflexes, balance, how they walk, how fast they can stand up and sit down and most importantly, how their minds are working. Tester: I'm gonna say and show you three words for you to remember. Honesty. Jane Whistler: Shirt. Honesty. Tester: Perfect. Tester: Now please spell . What three words did I ask you to remember earlier? Jane Whistler: Brown. Tester: You want a little hint? Jane Whistler: Yeah. Tester: OK. Was that word honesty, charity- -Jane Whistler: Honesty. Tester: Yes. Sure. Lesley Stahl: You do. Jane Whistler: But that doesn't stop me. I think it's- - I think it's fun. Lou Tirado: Shirt, brown, honesty. Lou Tirado. CBS News. We were struck by what great shape many of the study participants are in like Lou Tirado, a World War II B- 1. Berlin and spent eight months as a German POW, and Sid Shero, another World War II veteran, who came to talk to us despite having suffered a stroke just a few weeks earlier that slurred his speech. Sid Shero: I am 9. Sid drives his car to his test sessions. Lesley Stahl: You drive a convertible? Sid Shero: Yes. Lesley Stahl: You want the girls to look at you. Sid Shero: They call it a chick car. Sid, a widower, works out at the fitness center, keeps up with the news - - and the ladies.. Lesley Stahl: So you're a bachelor. Sid Shero: Yes. Lesley Stahl: Do you date? Sid Shero: Yes. Lesley Stahl: Do you have a rich social life? Sid Shero: Yes. Lesley Stahl: Is it fun? Sid Shero: Yes. And I hope to last a long time. But of course not everyone is so lucky. When participants like Louise Bigelow, age 9. So I always had a lot of excitement all the time. And that was the beginning. Lesley Stahl: You're not gonna forget that ever. Louise Bigelow: No. But when it comes to recent memories, and thinking skills, she struggles more and more. Tester: And in what way are laughing and crying alike? Louise Bigelow: Ugh. Ruthy Stahl: Brown, honesty, and uh shirt. The testers go to 9. Ruthy Stahl's home too. They go not because she can't come to them. She just doesn't have time. Ruthy Stahl: I'm in my car more than I'm in the house, I think. Because I do so many things. Lesley Stahl: What do you do? Ruthy Stahl: I am flying all over the place. Flying, as in speed walking three miles almost every day. Ruthy Stahl: On Sunday, it's only two miles. Lesley Stahl: Are you on the computer? Ruthy Stahl: Yes, I am. But I'm having trouble with my computer. Jane Whistler: I had a computer for 1. Jane outlived her computer. At almost 1. 00, she's done a lot of outliving. Jane Whistler: We were all bridge players down here. We'd play bridge and have dinner and we had a lot of fun. Lesley Stahl: Have some of them died? Jane Whistler: They've all died. Lesley Stahl: They've all died. Jane Whistler: Every one. Lesley Stahl: Oh my goodness. Jane Whistler: I'm the only one left. So what was it that got these people into their 9. Jane Whistler's parents both died when she was young. Claudia Kawas: Well whatever your secrets are, by being in the study, we're gonna try to find 'em out. Lesley Stahl: So you can go back and look at their medical history? Claudia Kawas: Everybody in the study filled out that questionnaire in the early 1. And comparing that data to how it's all turned out has yielded a slew of published findings about behaviors associated with living longer. So what's the verdict? No surprise: smokers died earlier than non- smokers. And what about exercise? Claudia Kawas: People who exercised definitely lived longer than people who didn't exercise. As little as 1. 5 minutes a day on average made a difference. Forty- five was the best. Even three hours didn't beat 4. Lesley Stahl: Oh wow. Claudia Kawas: - -a day. Lesley Stahl: That's interesting. Claudia Kawas: And it didn't all have to be at once. It could be, for example, 1. And it also didn't have to be very intense exercise. As little as 1. 5 minutes a day on average made a difference. Even three hours didn't beat 4. I love dessert. Ruthy Stahl: I always had a glass of wine before dinner. And now I still do, but I can't quite finish it. Lesley Stahl: Clean living, huh? Sid Shero: No. Lesley Stahl: No? Not clean living. Sid Shero: I don't know what clean living is. Lesley Stahl: What about alcohol? Jane Whistler: Sure, I love wine. Lesley Stahl: Do you take vitamins? Sid Shero: Yes. A lot of 'em. So which vitamins helped? Antioxidants? Lesley Stahl: OK, Vitamin E. We're sitting at the edge of our chairs. Does it- - did it make a difference? Vitamin- -Claudia Kawas: It was- -Lesley Stahl: - -E? Claudia Kawas: - -my favorite, but uh- uh. Lesley Stahl: No? Claudia Kawas: People who took Vitamin E didn't live any longer than people who didn't take Vitamin E. They also looked at Vitamin A, C, and calcium.. Claudia Kawas: The short answer is none of 'em made a difference. Lesley Stahl: None of them made a difference to living- -Claudia Kawas: In terms of- -Lesley Stahl: - -a long life? Claudia Kawas: - -how long you live. Lesley Stahl: What about alcohol? Claudia Kawas: Oh. Alcohol made a difference. But it may not be what you think.. Claudia Kawas: Moderate alcohol was associated with living longer than individuals who did not consume alcohol. Lesley Stahl: Wait a minute. Ha- - moderate- - alcohol you live longer? Claudia Kawas: Yes. Up to two drinks a day led to a 1. Jane Whistler: Isn't that exciting? And any kind of alcohol seemed to do the trick. Claudia Kawas: A lot of people like to say it's only red wine. In our hands it didn't seem to matter. Lesley Stahl: Martinis just as good. Claudia Kawas: Yeah. And there's good news for coffee drinkers. Caffeine intake equivalent to 1- 3 cups of coffee a day was better than more, or none. But late in life, they found people who were overweight or average weight both outlived people who were underweight. Claudia Kawas: It's not good to be skinny when you're old. But living a long time, even if we don't have to watch our waistlines, isn't the only thing most of us care about. We want to be all there to enjoy it. And it's in the areas of Alzheimer's and dementia that the 9. You brought it up! Helen Weil and Henry Tornell: . We are a nation getting older. By the middle of the century, the number of Americans age 9. While that's good news for those of us who want to stick around, it also means more time to literally start to lose our minds. Dementia, including that most dreaded form, Alzheimer's disease, is a looming threat, and a primary focus of the 9. Participants are asked to donate their brains to the study after they die, so researchers can compare what they saw in life to the secrets buried deep within. And the picture isn't always matching up, bringing new discoveries and new questions about what may actually be causing dementia in the . I really, really expected to find that. But in our study that's not to happen. Lesley Stahl: It's not true. It turns out the risk of developing dementia doubles every 5 years starting at the age of 6. So now at this stage of the game, if it's petering out, just reminiscing about our past is a source of incalculable joy. Tester: An orange and a banana are alike because they're both? Ted Rosenbaum: Fruits. Ted did well on parts of the 9. Tester: Six, one, eight, four, three. Ted Rosenbaum: Three, four, eight, one, six. But when it came time to remember the three words she'd told him just 4. Ted Rosenbaum: Three words.. Ted has- -Lesley Stahl: He does. Claudia Kawas: - -dementia. You know, unfortunately there's no blood test. It's an examiner finding out that an individual has problems in two or more of the main things that brain does for them. So that's where he is. And what's perhaps the most devastating is, he knows it. Ted Rosenbaum: My worst condition is my memory. Lesley Stahl: When you can't remember something, what goes on inside you? Ted Rosenbaum: Terrible frustration and terrible- - you know, it's having more and more of a negative impact on me, psychologically. Determining what's behind his memory loss isn't easy, since diseases like Alzheimer's can only be definitively diagnosed in the brain after death. So it's after the 9. When subjects in the study donate their brains, they come here to neuropathologist Dr. He showed us one of the things he always looks for - - the plaques and tangles in the brain that are the tell- tale signs of Alzheimer's disease. Ronald Kim: It forms all of these plaques.
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