Research states that having a positive attitude about aging can actually be good for your health!
In particular…a 2002 study by Yale University researchers reported that seniors with a positive attitude about aging wound up living 7.5 years longer than those who had a negative view on aging.
Researchers believed that older folks who saw themselves as “a burden to others” wound up experiencing depression and social isolation. These negative beliefs on aging then became “silent killers” for those seniors.
Happily, there’s now something called “The Positive Aging Movement”!
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Feel free to share these positive quotes in social media – or with friends and family you feel might benefit from their encouraging reminders!
I’m not old. I’ve just been young for a very long time.
Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research. – Carl Jung
Japan has the highest concentration of people age 65 and over. Then comes Italy. Next Greece. And after that, Germany.
There is a Fountain of Youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. – Sophia Loren
You gotta nourish to flourish.
You can’t help getting older. But you don’t have to get old. – George Burns
In the United Kingdom, 1/3 of babies born in 2012 can expect to live to 100.
You can age quickly…or age slowly. It’s your choice.
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