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Denial gets a bad rap in popular imagination. From experts to counselors, we are told to face up to reality (use your mentality).
Acceptance is one of the oft-cited necessary steps for dying correctly. There are guidelines for everything we do.
Is denial so terrible?
A study, described in Health Day
Simply feeling younger can protect middle-aged and older adults against health decline by buffering against stress, an astonishing new study reveals.
Researchers in Germany investigated whether people s subjective age – feeling younger than we actually are – had an effect on the detrimental effects of stress.
Specifically, the experts looked into the effects of stress on functional health decline – steadily becoming unable to perform everyday tasks like climbing the stairs.
A younger subjective age was associated with less of a steep decline in functional health, according to the team, from the German Centre of Gerontology in Berlin.
People who felt younger had a greater sense of well-being, better cognitive functioning, less inflammation, lower risk of hospitalisation and even longer lives, they found.
People who feel younger have greater sense of well-being, health benefits
People who feel younger have a greater sense of well-being, better cognitive functioning, less inflammation, lower risk of hospitalization and even live longer than their older-feeling peers. A study published by the American Psychological Association suggests one potential reason for the link between subjective age and health: Feeling younger could help buffer middle-aged and older adults against the damaging effects of stress.
In the study, published in
Psychology and Aging, researchers from the German Centre of Gerontology analyzed three years of data from 5,039 participants in the German Ageing Survey, a longitudinal survey of residents of Germany age 40 and older. The survey included questions about the amount of perceived stress in peoples lives and their functional health - how much they were limited in daily activities such as walking, dressing and bathing. Participants also indicated their subject
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WASHINGTON People who feel younger have a greater sense of well-being, better cognitive functioning, less inflammation, lower risk of hospitalization and even live longer than their older-feeling peers. A study published by the American Psychological Association suggests one potential reason for the link between subjective age and health: Feeling younger could help buffer middle-aged and older adults against the damaging effects of stress.
In the study, published in
Psychology and Aging, researchers from the German Centre of Gerontology analyzed three years of data from 5,039 participants in the German Ageing Survey, a longitudinal survey of residents of Germany age 40 and older. The survey included questions about the amount of perceived stress in peoples lives and their functional health - how much they were limited in daily activities such as walking, dressing and bathing. Participants also indicated their subjective age by answering the question, How old do you f