Feeling Old vs Being Old - Associations Between Self-perceived Age and Mortality

What is your doctor doing to make sure you are feeling young even though you just had a stroke? Telling you you won't recover? Or maybe that you would be better off dead?
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Isla Rippon, MSc¹; Andrew Steptoe, DSc¹

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JAMA Intern Med. Published online December 15, 2014. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.6580

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Self-perceived age reflects appraisals of health, physical limitations, and well-being in later life.¹ Older people typically feel younger than their chronologic age, and it is thought that those who feel younger than their actual age have reduced mortality.^2,3 We sought to confirm this relationship in a large representative population sample, and to understand the role of existing health problems, poor physical function, depression, sociodemographic factors, social isolation, impaired cognitive function, and health behaviors in explaining the association.

Harvard Medical School discussing this;

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