For a longer life, go out

GETTING out the house at least once a day can extend the lifespans of older people, research shows.

Even those who do low levels of exercise or have mobility problems can benefit, experts found.

A study of 70 to 90-yearolds found those who engage with the world are exposed to ‘a variety of beneficial experiences’. At the age of 78, 71 per cent of subjects who left the house every day lived to 85.

Only 44.3 per cent of those who leave their homes ‘rarely’ lived as long.

At 90, 56 per cent of those who often left survived to the age of 96, compared to 37.7 per cent for those who left only occasionally, the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society reports.