(Photo credit: Phoebe Putney Health System facebook page)
A Georgia woman was discharged from the hospital after beating coronavirus right before her birthday. But this wasn’t just another ordinary birthday, it’s about to be her 100th birthday!
That’s right, according to the hospital system, Maude Burke is the oldest COVID-19 patient to be discharged from Phoebe Putney Health System in Albany, Georgia.
In the video below, the hospital staff applauds Burke as she was wheeled out of the hospital.
Atlanta CBS affiliate reported that in honor of her leaving the hospital in good health, the hospital staff all lined the hallway and cheered her on as she left to go home.
The video of Maude leaving the hospital has been viewed nearly 120,000 times on the hospital’s Facebook page.
“Her strength and determination are amazing, and we wish her well as she continues to recover,” the hospital said. “Thank you for being an inspiration, Ms. Maude!”
Maude isn’t the only three-digit survivor of this pandemic. Back in early March 2020, a 100-year-old Chinese man fully recovered from the coronavirus, making him the oldest known patient at the time to pull through the deadly illness, Wuhan media reported.
The man also suffered from other underlying health issues such as Alzheimer’s disease, hypertension and heart failure, which make it even harder for patients to recover according the health officials.
In the media report, he was treated using antiviral medication, convalescent plasma therapy and traditional Chinese medicine. The 100-year-old man was then cleared to leave the hospital.
During these uncertain times, many wonder how or even if one can live to 100. According the Department of Aging, the healthiest centenarians (people who live to 100) lived simple lives, following farm-to-table diets, frequently interacting with their communities and exercising by biking or walking long distances to work each day.
There is also one thing that is important: they seem to all live a stress free life.
If you notice, many centenarians and super centenarians (people who live to 110 and above), tell it like it is, don’t worry about much and take everything in stride.
As a matter of fact, the University of California-San Francisco research team found that the mere anticipation of stress can increase an individual’s risk of age-related disorders. In the study, 50 women (half of whom were caretakers for a patient with dementia, and therefore presumably deal with daily stress) were told that they would have to engage in public speaking or math problems.
The study found that those who felt most threatened by the anticipation of the stressful event exhibited greater signs of aging on the cellular level. The researchers proposed in a university release that greater anticipated threat levels in daily life may promote cellular aging in chronically stressed persons. There’s still research that needs to be done (“The science is a little grey here,” says Diller), but already it is beginning to pinpoint some ways that stress affects the aging process.
So what does this tell us? Eat clean, keep moving and active, and live a stress-free life.
Posted on April 23, 2020 Derrick Lane
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