Forget about lowering your blood pressure. How you think about aging may just be one of the most important secrets to living a long life.
Want to live an extra seven years? Think nice things about old people.
People who take in more-positive age beliefs from their culture tend to eat healthier diets, exercise more, and they are more likely to take prescribed medications. When we strengthen positive age beliefs, people tend to have lower levels of different kinds of stress biomarkers—lower levels of cortisol over time, lower cardiovascular response to stress. And we have found evidence that they have higher levels of well-being and self-efficacy that can lead to beneficial health changes over time.
If we are celebrating older people as having contributed to society and we want to find ways to recognize that and give them a little benefit, that seems like it could be a good thing, as long as it’s done in a way that is respectful. Right now, pediatrics is required in most medical schools but geriatric rotations are often not. So I think increasing education around how best to treat older people and promote healthy aging could be an important step to reducing ageism in medical settings.From the studies I’ve seen, there has been an increase in ageism, unfortunately, during the pandemic.
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