What Are Age Beliefs?

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When you think about an older person, what are the first five words or phrases that come to mind? And just about everybody i've ever talked to can quickly come up with images. The first ones that people mention are often negative. But usually by the end of the when they get to four or five, usually people can talk about positive images that they have. So these are these beliefs that we take in from social media, from literature, from movies that portray older people in different ways and then we hold those images in our minds. What is an age belief? I heard you mention that ate time, and nobody knows that. That's not in the common that's a good question.

Dr. Becca Levy's research explores psychosocial factors that influence older individuals’ cognitive and physical functioning, as well as their longevity. She is credited with creating a field of study that focuses on how positive and negative age stereotypes, which are assimilated from the culture, can have beneficial and adverse effects, respectively, on the health of older individuals.

Dr. Levy's book, Breaking the Age Code: How Your Beliefs About Aging Determine How Long and Well You Live is available now!

Learn more about Dr. Levy at: https://ysph.yale.edu/profile/becca_levy/.

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