Dr. Wendy Bazilian
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 15 Jul
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But the f research that first captured my attention wasn't about longevity per se, but it was in the late 1990s, I remember, and I looked it up.
Um, and the principal investigator Langeleese, I apologize if I've messed up your name and you happen to be listening, but Langeleese and colleagues examined whether older pedestrians could cross-signalize intersections.
And the time allotted by traffic engineers.
I just absolutely love that.
hypot that question, that research question.
They found that many adults walk more slowly than the speed assumed the pedestrian signals were timed.
Meaning that a substantial portion would not have enough time to cross safely before the signal changed.
I feel like that's big news.
Big news.
And I remember thinking how remarkable it was that such an ordinary moment could reveal something so meaningful about health and fitness.
And function.
I guess I should say function even more than fitness.
Um and it wasn't whether they could achieve some ideal pace or complete a fitness test.
It was whether the design that the engineering had done of everyday life matched the realities of people living in it.
You know, are you going to become a casualty of a frogger video game, or are you gonna simply go on with your day when you get across that street?
And what are the implications on your mind if you've done it once and know that it's a close call, of you thinking about entering that signal in the first place?
Well, more than a decade after that first study, another group of researchers approached the issue from a different angle.
In a twenty eleven, it was a landmark paper in JAMA, Doctor Studensky and colleagues.
They pulled data involving more than 34,000 adults age sixty-five and older, and they found that usual walking speed was strongly associated with survival.
That usual walking speed strongly associated with survival.
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