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

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When I was pushed out 6 years later after having always done creative and effective work (two years before I n=intended) the first comment at my Staff Relations Committee was :"Now we can hire a young minister with kids who we can pay less. Those over the age of 50 control 77% of the total net worth of US households and spend more on travel, recreation and personal care products than any other age group, even though they only make up 32% of the population. Ageism robs us of optimism for the longer lives we have created, and it disables the future of the young and the old. that literally (and I'm not exaggerating here) presents us with exactly one line of useful information in the entire book, that information being, "If you think young, you'll feel young!

It's hard to see how her thesis helps when you spend almost all of your day lying in bed, probably in pain, barely able to speak. An essential read for anyone interested in how we age and how each of us can benefit from adopting positive age beliefs in everyday life. Ageism is a unique prejudice that can have profound effects on everyone (given enough time), and yet, it is one prejudice that in much of society, is completely accepted. The often-surprising results of Levy's science offer stunning revelations about the mind-body connection.We saw that as we watched science play out in real time and headlines during the first year of COVID. If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your Google Drive account. She then tackles head on the question of how to start shifting Western cultural ideas around getting older. 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.

Important to again be reminded that the "images in our head" the "pictures in our mind" play such a vital role in our experiences. Honestly, I wasn't expecting much in terms of how to change aging beliefs so was pleasantly surprised when she addressed it. Death isn't pleasant to witness and prosperous westerners in the 21st century aren't used to seeing death or the lead-in to it. 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. I received a digital galley of this book in exchange for an honest review, and will include it in a TBR round-up for Women's Health Month in May.Had it been presented in 100 pages or so with all the bibliography attached, it would have been strong. 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. 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. But to fill out a 300-page book, the author rolls out a repetitive series of anecdotes that she probably wanted to illustrate/humanize the data but instead dilutes her message.

Esteemed Yale professor Dr Becca Levy is the world's leading expert and pioneer in the field of ageing. Positive, surprising and full of powerful, practical advice, As Old As You Think will dismantle commonly held assumptions about how we age and leave readers looking forward to - and no longer fearing - what the future holds. Breaking the Age Code: How Your Beliefs About Aging Determine How Long and Well You Live Becca Levy, Vermillion, London, 2022, 294 pp. So often I read a book that spends a long time outlining a problem and then it never concludes with how to address it.but then I became infuriated when I wasted four hours of my life to actually finish the book, thinking that surely this couldn't be the one and only piece of information she's conveying here, just to learn that the entire rest of this book's page count is devoted either to examples backing up her theory, or endless, endless pages informing me that, believe it or not, people actually discriminate against the elderly, and that's unfair! 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.