Impact of Cultural Age Beliefs on Health

Impact of Cultural Age Beliefs on Health

Join AARP, Dr. Becca Levy, Professor of Epidemiology & Psychology, Yale School of Public Health and attendees from across the country for this FREE, virtual workshop taking place on Monday, April 18, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. ET 

AARP membership not required.

In this session Dr. Levy will share her studies that have been conducted by longitudinal, experimental and cross-cultural methods and offer an increased knowledge of how to promote positive age beliefs and reduce negative age beliefs on an individual and societal level. She will also share her contributions and experience in reducing age discrimination as shown by Dr. Levy’s testimony before the United States Senate on the effects of ageism and contributed to briefs submitted to the United States Supreme Court in age-discrimination cases.

Dr. Becca Levy is credited with creating a field of study that focuses on how positive and negative age stereotypes, which are assimilated from the culture, can have a beneficial and adverse effects, respectively, on the health of older individuals.

REGISTER