Breaking the Age Code
by Becca Levy
A Yale epidemiologist's research showing that beliefs about aging predict health: people with positive age beliefs live seven and a half years longer, recover faster and have lower dementia risk, and the beliefs can be changed. It is rigorous and surprising, with an ABC method for revising age beliefs.
Read it if…
you want evidence that your expectations about aging matter, and a way to change them.
Skip it if…
you want diet and exercise advice; this is about belief.
Three things you will actually use
- Age beliefs affect biology.
- Positive beliefs are not denial; they are accuracy about variability.
- Challenge ageism around you; it is also in you.
Do this first
List the age stereotypes you hold and find one counterexample for each this week.
Our verdict
Rigorous and surprising.
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