Dr. Becca Levy has helped transform our understanding of the aging process through her ground-breaking book, Breaking the Age Code: How Your Beliefs About Aging Determine How Long and Well You Live (William Morrow, 2022). Levy does a brilliant job debunking stereotypes and myths about aging that will shock and delight you.

Through more than two decades of research as Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health and Professor of Psychology at Yale University, Dr. Levy and her team have demonstrated that health problems attributed solely to the aging process such as hearing loss, memory loss, and cardiovascular events are in fact influenced by the negative age stereotypes and self-perceptions so dominant in our culture. The central message of these trailblazing studies is one of optimism: damaging ideas about age are malleable and can change with the potential to add an average of 7 1/2 years to the lifespan.

Her path-breaking research has received awards from the American Psychological Association, the Gerontological Society of America, and the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics, and also played a key role in the World Health Organization Campaign to Combat Ageism.

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