Breaking the Age Code, Becca Levy
Breaking the Age Code, Becca Levy
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Breaking the Age Code
How Your Beliefs About Aging Determine How Long and Well You Live

Author: Becca Levy

Narrator: Courtney Patterson

Unabridged: 7 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 04/12/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Yale professor and leading expert on the psychology of successful aging, Dr. Becca Levy, draws on her ground-breaking research to show how age beliefs can be improved so they benefit all aspects of the aging process, including the way genes operate and the extension of life expectancy by 7.5 years.The often-surprising results of Levy’s science offer stunning revelations about the mind-body connection. 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’s time for all of us to rethink aging and Breaking the Age Code shows us how to do just that.Based on her innovative research, stories that range from pop culture to the corporate boardroom, and her own life, Levy shows how age beliefs shape all aspects of our lives. 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.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.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

About Becca Levy

Dr. Becca Levy, the leading authority on how beliefs about aging influence aging health, is Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health and Professor of Psychology at Yale University. Her pathfinding studies have changed the way we think about aging and have received awards from the American Psychological Association, the Gerontological Society of America, and the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics. Dr. Levy has given invited testimony before the US Senate on the adverse effects of ageism and has contributed to US Supreme Court briefs to fight age-discrimination. She serves as a scientific advisor to the World Health Organization’s Campaign to Combat Ageism.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sharon on October 31, 2024

Dr. Becca Levy has created a well-researched book about the impact of positive beliefs about aging and how it impacts longevity in Breaking the Age Code: How Your Beliefs About Aging Determine How Long and Well You Live. The bottom line: if you have positive beliefs about aging, it can increase your......more

Goodreads review by John on September 12, 2022

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.” (Amazon blurb) And it apparently aims to do so in a way that will appeal to mass market readers. In......more

Goodreads review by Gail on August 20, 2022

As an integrative physician this book did not have alot of new information for me but there is a good discussion about agism in our society and how all ages in our culture are coming together to challenge it. I appreciate this discussion of the power of mental and emotional attitudes although I thin......more

Goodreads review by Sue on May 10, 2022

THRILLED to finally have Becca Levy’s research and findings about aging well all in one place! I’ve been bringing her research about the impact of our beliefs on how we age into my aging education work for many years now. So to discover this book was a real find for me. Highly recommend this wonderf......more