COVID-19 in the Blue Zone: What’s Helping Elders in Sardinia, Italy

Italy has the third highest number of coronavirus infections, after the U.S. and Spain. But its ancient, isolated island of Sardinia, one of the world’s five Blue Zones (where people live the longest, healthiest lives) hasn’t been devastated by the pan… Continue reading

How the Oldest People in America’s Blue Zone Make Their Money Last

(In 2008, National Geographic writer Dan Buettner published his bestselling book, The Blue Zones: 9 Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who’ve Lived the Longest, about the five “longevity pockets” around the world. For this weekly series, Next Av… Continue reading

Blue Zones, Part 2: How the World’s Oldest People in Asia and Europe Make Their Money Last

(In 2008, National Geographic writer Dan Buettner published his bestselling book, The Blue Zones: 9 Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who’ve Lived the Longest, about the five “longevity pockets” around the world. For this weekly series, Next Av… Continue reading