A new study led by the UW-Madison aims to shed light onto the mystery of aging.
MIDUS II, or \Midlife in the U.S.,"" is an extension of an earlier effort, MIDUS I, in which researchers interviewed 7,000 people throughout the United States between the ages of 35 and 85 years in order to track and compare changes in their daily lives with changes in their health.
The project is unique as it studies middle-aged people as well as older adults.
""MIDUS II will be one of the first studies to link psychosocial and behavioral factors to changes in health, both mental and physical,"" said Carol Ryff, lead investigator and director of the Institute of Aging at UW-Madison.
The project brings together 40 researchers from 16 institutions with a $26 million, six-year grant from the National Institute on Aging.
