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Super-Ageing: a world first study into the secrets of health ageing

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It's hoped the secrets of Australia's so-called "Super-Agers" - a name given to those who live healthily and successfully well into older-age, are about to be cracked. As Luke Waters and Maya Jamieson reports, quantifying what's known as "cognitive reserve" could hold the key to a world-first research project underway in Victoria. 



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