Don’t retire - rewire: How super-agers generate new brain cells and networks

Superagers never retire, instead they storm through life taking on tough challenges, building strength and creating new neural networks in the process, says Margaret Jennings.

YOUNG people have superheroes to look up to; older people have ‘superagers’. But while superheroes are fictional characters with superhuman powers, superagers are very real and living among us.

Their powers may not be superhuman, but they have stand-out memories and attention spans much younger than their peers in their 80s and 90s and they have scientists in a flurry trying to pinpoint why this is so.