Modern Aging

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Prof Levy: how to combat ageism using bottom-up approach: arts and a social movement
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Prof Levy: how to eliminate ageing using a top-down approach: regulation, including UN declaration and WHO campaign, both in process.
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Prof Levy: Positive age beliefs protected older adults from developing dementia.
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Prof Levy: Ageism impacts self-perception which influences health, with primary motivator being will to leave (health treatment seeking behavior)
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Yale School of Public Health, Professor Becca Levy: 75% of Americans have experienced ageism.
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People with positive self-perception live 7.5 years longer.
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According to Mercer, the global gender pensions gap is 30-40%.
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Laura Deal Lacey from the Milken Institute discussing the economics of aging.
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Symptom control is the core business of palliative care.
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Palliative care is a partnership, not a commodity.
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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

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

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Intervene when still healthy.
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A network of biological determinants of aging
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Addressing aging will affect healthy life years more than disease specific interventions.
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Healthy life expectancy is not rising at the same rate of life expectancy. This causes the increased cost of healthcare.
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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.
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Asst Prof Jan Gruber: biological aging is surprisingly easy to modulate with diet, stress, exercise, etc.
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Asst Prof Jan Gruber: There are over 400 compounds that modulate aging
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Prof Jan Gruber: fun fact- rock fish don’t age.
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