His nurses would speak to a 90 year old man in the high-pitched voice you might use for a child or a dog. Perhaps most importantly, this book provides practical suggestions on how to maximize the power of positive age beliefs, which can translate into tangible health benefits. 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. Straight forward and striking paced writing kept my mind totally glued into the book and i breezed through the book in single sitting. 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.

To access you ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. This book will shatter some of your basic assumptions about aging—and how we can lead longer, healthier, and happier lives.When we do so, we will create the potential of longer lives that young people can look forward to and older people can live their fullest in. Levy is a pioneering psychologist and gerontologist her wonderful book will inspire us with its solid scientific discoveries and practical advice for longevity. This book is not that, and in fact is not a book at all, but rather a cutesy Instagram motivational poster surrounded by 300 pages of nonsense. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). I can see more clearly how harmful age-related beliefs have hurt me, from when I was hesitant to try things in my youth because I thought myself to be "too young" up until now, when I worry about attempting something due to being "too old.

The author makes a detailed case that refusing to accept our culture's negative views on aging (which I do in fact reject) can add as much as 7. Don't solely blame an individual for their struggles with aging but note the environmental/situational explanation for the issue at hand.

Now she shares the secrets to a healthy and vibrant long life in this powerful and authoritative book. She also presents a variety of fascinating people who have benefited from positive age beliefs as well as an entire town that has flourished with these beliefs. She has published many articles, won numerous awards for her work and been cited widely across the media. If you are trying to work out if you should read this book or not, this review might not help you much.

She demonstrates that many health problems formerly considered to be entirely due to the aging process, such as memory loss, hearing decline, and cardiovascular events, are instead influenced by the negative age beliefs that dominate in the US and other ageist countries. It matters less when and what you do than that you build up positive age beliefs and trust that your body will respond in kind.Access options Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. Not to mention 3 Appendices with tips and tools for dismantling age bias from the micro to the macro levels. Ageism robs us of optimism for the longer lives we have created, and it disables the future of the young and the old.

She brings a unique perspective about a question we are all concerned with: what happens as we age and get older? Becca Levy is already recognized as one of the world’s most respected experts on aging and longevity. 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. Larding the text with examples of remarkable old people (yes, there are old healthy old people, and the ones mentioned are statistical outliers) makes good reading but poor science. The delineation and focus on our differences is what drives these "-isms" and is the basis of the tension between and among groups.

She is the leader and pioneer of a field of study that focuses on how both positive and negative age stereotypes affect the health of older individuals and has led WHO efforts to investigate the impact of ageism on the health of older people. Please list any fees and grants from, employment by, consultancy for, shared ownership in or any close relationship with, at any time over the preceding 36 months, any organisation whose interests may be affected by the publication of the response. For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. Many life lessons are subtly infused along with the story that made it an absolute favourite read for me. I even had good role models – – a grandmother who was still rototilling her yard in her eighties; my mother who was still actively gardening and sparing verbally with all comers in her 80’s.