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Age stereotyping results from a lack of contact among the generations.
54 Thus, findings here suggest complex interrelationships similar to those reported in a previous study of community dwelling elderly, which found that increasing severity of memory concern was associated with multiple factors including poor social network, negative age stereotyping, and depression.
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Psychologists call these "age stereotypes".
Also, people with negative age stereotypes may have a heightened cardiovascular response to stress, with attendant ill health effects.
Again, seniors with positive age stereotypes were much more likely to have good results and recover fully.
When Dr. Levy looked at 660 participants, she found that those with positive age stereotypes lived 7.5 years longer than those with negative stereotypes.
Her new findings about the impact of age stereotypes on older adults' recovery from disability is an extension of this body of work.
But the accompanying age stereotypes — this guy is 82, so he hasn't just blown a speech, he's lost his mind — were hard to miss.
Karma's a bitch: the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging reports, "Those holding more negative age stereotypes earlier in life had significantly steeper hippocampal volume loss and significantly greater accumulation of neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid plaques".
In her paper, Dr. Levy speculated that people with positive age stereotypes have a stronger will to live, and that this might affect their ability to adapt to the rigors of older age.
For people who care about and interact with older people, the message is clear: your attitude counts because it can activate or potentially modify these deeply held age stereotypes.
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