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

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Dozens of my own friends and acquaintances from 50-90 are as healthy, happy, productive and active as I am.

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The delineation and focus on our differences is what drives these "-isms" and is the basis of the tension between and among groups. One bit I liked about the fear of aging and the obsession with looking young, is to say to yourself "How do I look? Positive, practical and full of fresh insights, Breaking the Age Code will dismantle your assumptions about how we get older and leave you looking forward to what the future holds. Breaking the Age Code is burdened with both the demands of scientific rigor and the need to support the author's thesis that “negative age beliefs that dominate in the US and other ageist countries. I was just interested enough to give it a try, perhaps due to being the right age that such matters as ageism are starting to perk my interest.Breaking the Age Code should be required reading for everyone on the planet - but especially in the United States. To save this article to your Dropbox account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. Currently, Medicare reimburses therapists with older patients at a lower rate than therapists who work with younger people.

Not to mention 3 Appendices with tips and tools for dismantling age bias from the micro to the macro levels. Levy has produced a manifesto to inspire us to fight against the scourge of ageism and its negative effects on older adults, and our society.I’ll have Marketing work through the text … I think they’ve got Morgan Freeman on the hook for an interview.

Becca Levy has done a masterful job of describing the importance of aging beliefs on health and wellbeing at both the individual and societal level. Breaking the Age Code is a landmark work, presenting not only easy-to-follow techniques for improving age beliefs so they can contribute to successful aging, but also a blueprint to reduce structural ageism for lasting change and an age-just society. Please also list any non-financial associations or interests (personal, professional, political, institutional, religious or other) that a reasonable reader would want to know about in relation to the submitted work. Now she shares the secrets to a healthy and vibrant long life in this powerful and authoritative book.

Don't solely blame an individual for their struggles with aging but note the environmental/situational explanation for the issue at hand. 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. She then tackles head on the question of how to start shifting Western cultural ideas around getting older. Breaking the Age Code: How Your Beliefs About Aging Determine How Long and Well You Live Becca Levy, Vermillion, London, 2022, 294 pp.