how can they be made to live longer?

I have a villager who lived to 104 and it tells me that I am ranked number 1!!!! So i guess that it must be me.....
didn't do anything special, just played the game the way i always have!

I'm still stuck in the late 70's for deaths... My oldest so far is 77. I have all the tech's maxed & all puzzles done, so, I'm not sure why they die so early in life. heh.

I'm sad cuz I wasn't really aware of this guy til he died and I was checking gravestone info. Most of mine don't live much past 80, if that.

Besides monitoring them closely (making them eat, drink, get healed quickly) maybe the special fruit helps? I think this guy ate it a few times...in this particular game I dropped as many villagers as I could-and as often as I could until I got bored-on the plant to see if it really worked...guess so?



ps When I refreshed the rank on my Statistics page, it said Nuwopo's age was ranked 179. That was just a few days ago. I'd love to know (in an unaltered, "no cheating" game) who the oldest villager is!

I am still new at this game, but have learned with the elderly, at level 2 medicine, you need to check on them often. They get obsessed in their jobs and do not eat. I have clicked off their jobs to make them take it easy and not strive so hard. Also have had to force feed them, since they tend not to eat as often. Anyone, see this at the level I am describing?

All of mine that have lived into their 90's have all been Master Doctors - they tend to be healthier because they remember to eat and relax and exercise (they also wander around aimlessly too). I try to make all my villagers (or as many as possible) have at least Trainee Doctor status for this reason. They will research, farm, and build, but stay healthier.

I can't get a villager to live past 81! grrrrr-no matter what I do for the old folks, they just drop dead in their late 70's to early 80's. I decided to concentrate on one elderly master doctor-take care of him, feed him magic berries, walk him in the garden...to no avail. His health bar was full red yet he dropped dead right before my eyes at age 76,one second he is at the food bin, the next he is a pile of bones on the ground-on the easy mode! A heart attack or perhaps a pulmonary embolism? GEEEEZZZZZ- I am wondering if they live longer on the harder modes? Anyone know? This is VERY FRUSTRATING! and I hate when that stupid GC calls a party and the villagers dance all over the skeletons-yuk!

My oldest villager is 91 and I been playing it for a long time. Never get any older. Its only in the last few weeks one died at 91.

I must try that train some of my villagers to be doctors only.