Breaking the Age Code: How Your Beliefs about Aging Determine How Long and Well You Live

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First revealing the surprising impact our biases around ageing have on the ageing process, Dr Levy then sets out what we can do as individuals to help ourselves age well using her simple ABC method. To save this article to your Google Drive account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. Even though Levy's chatty style kinda bugged me (which is rare for me, usually I am all for a chatty informal style) and she gave too many personal stories as examples, this book ended up being better than I thought it would be. But the topic of this book is very much an issue for people of all ages, I would have liked to have been more aware of these issues decades ago. Important to again be reminded that the "images in our head" the "pictures in our mind" play such a vital role in our experiences.

Highly recommend this wonderful resource for any and all who want to experience a full and meaningful later life. To briefly sum things up, this book concerns the psychological and social implications of age-related beliefs. The eternal legacy of Maggie Kuhn, the Founder of Gray Panthers and one of the most important and effective activists of the 20th century is richly demonstrated in this book. Though it has worked out well for me, with that background I was very receptive to this excellent book about the effects and prevalence of ageism in our world. Dozens of my own friends and acquaintances from 50-90 are as healthy, happy, productive and active as I am.One can only assume that an editor without much scientific background made cuts and tucks to make the idea more “punchy. The often-surprising results of Levy’s science offer stunning revelations about the mind-body connection. Becca Levy is already recognized as one of the world’s most respected experts on aging and longevity.

If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your Dropbox account. The delineation and focus on our differences is what drives these "-isms" and is the basis of the tension between and among groups. But the selective presentation, for example, of the glories of centenarian worship in Japan without much mention of the fish and vegetables based diet and low level of obesity in the periods studied raised questions.Even people who are extraordinarily careful to avoid offending marginalized groups often routinely denigrate people based on age, and internalized ageism can have very unfortunate effects on social, psychological, and physical health. Esteemed Yale professor Dr Becca Levy is the world's leading expert and pioneer in the field of ageing.