diff --git a/django_celery_results/backends/database.py b/django_celery_results/backends/database.py
index a4e364a6..664c7120 100644
--- a/django_celery_results/backends/database.py
+++ b/django_celery_results/backends/database.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 from celery.result import GroupResult, allow_join_result, result_from_tuple
 from celery.utils.log import get_logger
 from celery.utils.serialization import b64decode, b64encode
-from django.db import connection, router, transaction
+from django.db import connection, connections, router, transaction
 from django.db.models.functions import Now
 from django.db.utils import InterfaceError
 from kombu.exceptions import DecodeError
@@ -120,6 +120,17 @@ def _store_result(
             using=None
     ):
         """Store return value and status of an executed task."""
+
+        # If a task has been running long, it may have exceeded
+        # the max db age and/or the database connection
+        # may have been ended due to being idle for too long.
+        # As a safety, before we submit the result,
+        # we ensure it still has a valid connection, just like
+        # Django does after a request to ensure a
+        # clean connection for the next request.
+        (connections[router.db_for_write(self.TaskModel)]
+         .close_if_unusable_or_obsolete())
+
         content_type, content_encoding, result = self.encode_content(result)
 
         meta = {
@@ -147,7 +158,6 @@ def _store_result(
 
         if status == states.STARTED:
             task_props['date_started'] = Now()
-
         self.TaskModel._default_manager.store_result(**task_props)
         return result
 
diff --git a/t/proj/settings.py b/t/proj/settings.py
index 6e974b51..d347f14d 100644
--- a/t/proj/settings.py
+++ b/t/proj/settings.py
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
             'OPTIONS': {
                 'connect_timeout': 1000,
             },
+            'CONN_MAX_AGE': None,
         },
         'secondary': {
             'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
@@ -50,6 +51,7 @@
             'TEST': {
                 'MIRROR': 'default',
             },
+            'CONN_MAX_AGE': None,
         },
         'read-only': {
             'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
@@ -65,6 +67,7 @@
             'TEST': {
                 'MIRROR': 'default',
             },
+            'CONN_MAX_AGE': None,
         },
     }
 except ImportError:
diff --git a/t/unit/backends/test_database.py b/t/unit/backends/test_database.py
index 8baa6cc0..2c8b36e0 100644
--- a/t/unit/backends/test_database.py
+++ b/t/unit/backends/test_database.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 import json
 import pickle
 import re
+import time
 from unittest import mock
 
 import celery
@@ -12,6 +13,7 @@
 from celery.utils.serialization import b64decode
 from celery.worker.request import Request
 from celery.worker.strategy import hybrid_to_proto2
+from django.db import connections, router
 from django.test import TransactionTestCase
 
 from django_celery_results.backends.database import DatabaseBackend
@@ -24,7 +26,7 @@ def __init__(self, data):
         self.data = data
 
 
-@pytest.mark.django_db()
+@pytest.mark.django_db(transaction=True)
 @pytest.mark.usefixtures('depends_on_current_app')
 class test_DatabaseBackend:
 
@@ -550,6 +552,25 @@ def test_backend__task_result_meta_injection(self):
         tr = TaskResult.objects.get(task_id=tid2)
         assert json.loads(tr.meta) == {'key': 'value', 'children': []}
 
+    def test_backend__task_result_closes_stale_connection(self):
+        tid = uuid()
+        request = self._create_request(
+            task_id=tid,
+            name='my_task',
+            args=[],
+            kwargs={},
+            task_protocol=1,
+        )
+        # simulate a stale connection by setting the close time
+        # to the current time
+        db_conn_wrapper = connections[router.db_for_write(self.b.TaskModel)]
+        db_conn_wrapper.close_at = time.monotonic()
+        current_db_connection = db_conn_wrapper.connection
+        self.b.mark_as_done(tid, None, request=request)
+        # Validate the connection was replaced in the process
+        # of saving the task
+        assert current_db_connection is not db_conn_wrapper.connection
+
     def test_backend__task_result_date(self):
         tid2 = uuid()