We are all living longer and life gets better at 50

Life gets better at 50 — that’s according to Trinity College Dublin’s Tilda (The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing) research.

“The data from Tilda is nothing but heartening and one of the positive things is that life gets better as you get older,” said Tilda’s Rose Anne Kenny yesterday.

“Quality of life starts at age 50 and it gets better from 50 up to about 78, and then it starts to dip and the reason the quality of life dips at that stage is almost predominantly because of diseases.”