New Book by Harvard Psychologist Suggests Radical Approach to Aging

A new book from a Harvard psychologist suggests that changing how we think about aging may actually reverse or reduce some of the effects. Subjects were put in a hotel specially designed to make it seem like it was 20 years earlier and were told to act like they had traveled back in time.

 ”After just one week, the men in the experimental group (compared with controls of the same age) had more joint flexibility, increased dexterity and less arthritis in their hands. Their mental acuity had risen measurably, and they had improved gait and posture. Outsiders who were shown the men’s photographs judged them to be significantly younger than the controls.”

We see clients all the time who get a caregiver, start to gain more freedom and ability to leave the house and do the activites they have always loved; often these individuals then feel much younger, because they are no longer thinking of themselves as old and incapacitated. Read the entire fascinating Newsweek article here, and then try to put some of these ideas into practice right at home here in Chicago and the North Shore!

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