Modern Aging

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Prof Levy: how to combat ageism using bottom-up approach: arts and a social movement #meaningfulendings

Prof Levy: how to eliminate ageing using a top-down approach: regulation, including UN declaration and WHO campaign, both in process. #meaningfulendings

Prof Levy: Positive age beliefs protected older adults from developing dementia. #meaningfulendings

Prof Levy: Ageism impacts self-perception which influences health, with primary motivator being will to leave (health treatment seeking behavior) #meaningfulaging

Yale School of Public Health, Professor Becca Levy: 75% of Americans have experienced ageism. #meaningfulendings

People with positive self-perception live 7.5 years longer. #meaningfulendings

According to Mercer, the global gender pensions gap is 30-40%. #meaningfulendings

Laura Deal Lacey from the Milken Institute discussing the economics of aging. #meaningfulaging

Symptom control is the core business of palliative care. #meaningfulendings

Palliative care is a partnership, not a commodity. #meaningfulendings

Panel discussion on Ezekiel Emmanuel’s article on living until 75 years old evolves into discussion on how we think about aging and meaning in aging #meaningfulendings

Yale-NUS Writers’ Centre held a student writing contest “Write your own obituary.”

Intervene when still healthy. #meaningfulaging

A network of biological determinants of aging #meaningfulaging

Addressing aging will affect healthy life years more than disease specific interventions. #meaningfulendings

Healthy life expectancy is not rising at the same rate of life expectancy. This causes the increased cost of healthcare. #meaningfulendings

Japan and the US had the same life expectancies in 1970. Japan now has a life expectancy five plus years longer than the US due to lifestyle. #meaningfulendings

Asst Prof Jan Gruber: biological aging is surprisingly easy to modulate with diet, stress, exercise, etc. #meaningfulendings

Asst Prof Jan Gruber: There are over 400 compounds that modulate aging #meaningfulendings

Prof Jan Gruber: fun fact- rock fish don’t age. #meaningfulendings